Jul 26
More than two-thirds of people who tested positive for HIV but weren’t yet eligible for treatment when diagnosed were lost from care, according to a systematic review of pre-antiretroviral (pre-ART) care in sub-Saharan Africa, published this month in PLoS Medicine.
Studies included in the review report a substantial loss of patients at every step of care, starting with patients who do not return for their initial CD4 count results and ending with those who do not initiate ARVs despite eligibility, according to Sydney Rosen and Matthew Fox of the Center for Global Health and Development at Boston University, who conducted the review.
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Jul 26
It has taken nearly a century, but mouse geneticists are finally finishing the work started by Abbie Lathrop. The former schoolteacher from Massachusetts bred many of what became the first laboratory strains of mice in the early 1900s, yet her animals carried only a sliver of the genetic diversity found in wild mice. The hundreds of strains of laboratory mice used today still have a pretty narrow range of traits, which hampers the search for disease-causing genes.
Now, the Collaborative Cross, an ambitious project to create hundreds more mouse varieties representing a wider range of genetic diversity, is beginning to deliver its first animals.
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Jul 26
An individual living with dementia will experience a decline in two or more of the following capacities:
memory generating speech or understanding spoken or written language capacity to plan, make sound judgments and carry out complex tasks processing and interpreting visual information
These impairments will persist over time and be severe enough to interfere with day-to-day life. They may also manifest themselves through disorientation, confusion or forgetfulness, or in particular forms of behaviour (such as walking about, repeated talk or actions).
Some of this behaviour can be very challenging to deal with. Full article…
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Jul 26
28 July, 2011 marks the first official World Health Organization-supported World Hepatitis Day, which is being coordinated in partnership with the World Hepatitis Alliance. Hepatitis kills more than one million people every year. Millions more suffer immediate sickness or long-term ill health. World Hepatitis Day provides an opportunity to recognise viral hepatitis as a major global health problem in order to advance prevention and control. Want to get involved? Take a look at what the World Health Organization (WHO) is doing on this day. Also visit the website of the World Hepatitis Alliance which is a key WHO partner for World Hepatitis Day.
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