The News Review:
- Factors Leading To Hospital Admission For Heart Failure Identified
- Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
- National Jewish center tests allergy drops
- Global warming set to fan HIV
- Science / Technology : New Research on Sickle Cell Disease
Factors Leading To Hospital Admission For Heart Failure Identified
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Apr 30, 2008
Mihai Gheorghiade of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine; Dr. Greenberg of the University of California San Diego Medical Center; Karen Pieper and Jie Lena Sun of the Duke Clinical Research Institute; and Dr. Clyde Yancy of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center. Adapted from materials provided by.
Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
AllAfrica.com – Apr 30, 2008
Speaking at the forum Daniel Tarantola a professor of health and human rights at UNSW said that global warming will indirectly increase vulnerability to HIV infection for people living in developing countries. Tarantola said "Climate change will trigger a chain of events which is likely to increase the stress on society and result in higher vulnerability to diseases including HIV. "Climate change will lead to food scarcity and poorer nutrition putting people with perilous immune systems at more risk of dying of [AIDS-related illnesses] as well as contracting and transmitting new and unusual infections" Cooper said. Cooper said that with 16000 new HIV cases daily and the failure of research to produce a vaccine or cure the outlook for fighting the pandemic was "pretty grim. " He said "I don’t think we have any idea of how to harness a vaccine for this and we need a strong basic science breakthrough to get anywhere with it.
National Jewish center tests allergy drops
Rocky Mountain News – Apr 30, 2008
ne of the aims of the new study is to see whether allergy drops can combat multiple allergens. Ciel started his trial last summer and is only a month or two from the end. For more information about the study and possible participation contact the Adult Clinical Research Unit at 303-398-1911 or Pediatric Research at 303-270-2222. com or 303-954-2897 Subscribe to the Rocky Mountain News Share.
Global warming set to fan HIV
NEWS.com.au – Apr 30, 2008
Those problems had not gone away he said and today extra threats were lurking on the horizon "as the global economic situation deteriorates food scarcity worsens and climate change begins to affect those who were already dependent on survival economies”. "Climate change will trigger a chain of events which is likely to increase the stress on society and result in higher vulnerability to diseases including HIV” said Prof Tarantola due to address an HIV forum in Sydney tonight. Prominent HIV scientist Professor David Cooper director of the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research agreed environmental change would have a negative impact on HIV sufferers. "Climate change will lead to food scarcity and poorer nutrition putting people with perilous immune systems at more risk of dying of HIV as well as contracting and transmitting new and unusual infections” Prof Cooper said. "And this would effect Australia too because these infections could potentially spread. Just look at the horror that SARS and avian flu have caused. ” The specialist said the HIV landscape was grim with 16000 new infections worldwide each day and the failure of research to produce a much-needed cure or vaccine.
Science / Technology : New Research on Sickle Cell Disease
Lincoln Tribune – The Lincoln Tribune – Apr 30, 2008
Knoll a fellow in pediatric hematology and oncology. Support for the research came from National Heart Lung and Blood Institute a component of the National Institutes of Health and the General Clinical Research Center at UNC. The study can be found at:.
