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THURSDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) — Mandates for physical education in most of the United States fall short of the guidelines set forth by the National Association of Sport and Physical Education, according to a new study.
Scientists in the United States said Wednesday they had used a cancer drug to flush out the AIDS virus lurking dormant in trial patients' white blood cells — a tentative step towards a cure.
In a general sense, NHPs are the rough equivalent of “biologically based products" within the category of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in the United States. The second part of the definition describes what these products are used for.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Monday that the United States will step up the fight against HIV, insisting it was working towards the goal of achieving an AIDS-free generation.
SUNDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) — Among people with HIV in the United States, those born outside the country are more likely than U.S.-born patients to be Hispanic or Asian and to have acquired HIV through heterosexual sex, a new study finds.
Hundreds of sex workers from around the world who said they were denied visas to attend an international AIDS conference in the United States began their own meeting in Kolkata on Saturday in protest.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. drug regulators approved Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc’s Kyprolis for people with a type of blood cancer that has failed to respond to other medicines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday the intravenous drug was approved for treating multiple myeloma in people who have tried at least two other medicines, including Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd’s Velcade and Celgene Corp’s Revlimid or Thalomid. Multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that affects the plasma cells in bone marrow, is relatively rare in the United States but often deadly. …
Faced with the highest HIV-AIDS rates in the United States, community health activists in the nation's capital have come up with a novel way for people to save their own lives while killing time.
THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — The number of whooping cough cases in the United States may hit a record high this year, federal health officials reported Thursday.
THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Drinking among pregnant women in the United States remains an important public health issue, with almost 8 percent of expectant mothers reporting alcohol use, a new study reveals.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Health regulators are hoping more education for doctors and patients can stem the growing tide of prescription painkiller abuse in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration is mandating that all companies that make long-acting or extended-release opioid medicines – including painkillers like oxycodone and methadone – fund training programs for doctors that help them decide when to prescribe such medicines, and how to monitor patients who take them. …