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- AUB and VCU awarded $2.8m to study toxin exposure and health efects…
- Uganda: Mass HIV Testing – Will It Curb New Infections?
- New hope for liver diseases
- The Unborn’s Silent Suffering
AUB and VCU awarded $2.8m to study toxin exposure and health efects…
AME Info – May 25, 2008
That question an old laptop computer and a borrowed vacuum pump turned out to be the start of an incredibly surprising and challenging journey with laypersons scientists and students at AUB and around the world’ said Shihadeh. Instrument development and analytical laboratory work will be carried out at AUB by Professors Alan Shihadeh from mechanical engineering Najat Saliba from chemistry and Marwan El Sabban from human morphology. Meanwhile the clinical research and field observations will be conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University by Professors Thomas Eissenberg Michael Weaver and Kirk Brown. Globally tobacco use accounts for 4. 9 million deaths each year. While extensive research describes cigarette smoking little is known about narghile water pipe smoking whose use has spread rapidly worldwide thus constituting a major part of the global tobacco use epidemic. Shihadeh explained that the study will address ‘frequent but probably erroneous statements regarding water pipe ‘filtering’ and lower toxicant levels relative to cigarette smoke.
Uganda: Mass HIV Testing – Will It Curb New Infections?
AllAfrica.com – May 25, 2008
Alice Anukur Uganda Red Cross secretary-general says: "Unlike other diseases HIV needs a lot of sensitisation and this may make the testing policy ineffective. Victor Musiime the head of paediatrics at the Joint Clinical Research Centre says people should be allowed to make their own decisions on the matter. "When you force people to do something they tend to rebel and this may make the gain in the fight evaporate" said Musiime while speaking during a massive HIV testing drive at Kisenyi a slum in Kampala. The WH believes increased access to HIV testing and counselling is essential in promoting early diagnosis of HIV infection which in turn can maximise the potential benefits of life-extending treatment and care. It would also allow people with HIV to receive information and tools to prevent HIV transmission to others. Relevant LinksEast AfricaHIV-Aids and STDsHealth and MedicineUgandaIn its 2007 revised policy on HIV testing and counselling WH bars mandatory or coercive testing through one of its recommendations that warn: "Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling is not and should not be construed as an endorsement of coercive or mandatory HIV testing.
New hope for liver diseases
Tehran Times – May 25, 2008
Why some patients respond to therapy and others don’t has been an ongoing mystery Mengshol said. Monitoring the dendritic cells may help doctors determine who might respond to therapy. In another study Dr. Uchenna Iloeje director of virology for Global Clinical Research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. reported that monitoring the viral load of hepatitis B virus in patients with that disease is a significant predictor of who will be likely to get liver cancer. In the study researchers followed more than 3500 patients for 11. 5 years Iloeje said.
The Unborn’s Silent Suffering
zenit.org – May 25, 2008
This became an important question with the development of fetal surgery since whether the unborn feels pain is an important consideration for the surgeon. Anand now a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a pediatrician at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock told the New York Times that he believes fetuses can feel pain by the 20th week of pregnancy and possibly even earlier. The article also cited Nicholas Fisk a fetal-medicine specialist and director of the University of Queensland Center for Clinical Research in Australia. Fisk has carried out research showing that fetuses as young as 18 weeks react to an invasive procedure with a spike in stress hormones and a shunting of blood flow toward the brain. This is a reaction also present in infants and adults and is designed to protect a vital organ from threat. The New York Times article acknowledged that the question of whether the fetus does feel pain has obvious implications for the abortion debate. In fact medical evidence is showing they do feel pain and as time goes by researchers are pushing back more and more their estimation of the age at which the fetus is affected by pain.
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