The News Review:

- Inside Medicine: Screening sometimes isn’t worth trouble
- Inching closer
- Uganda: Test Kids for HIV – Medic
- U. nursing student gets fellowship

Inside Medicine: Screening sometimes isn’t worth trouble
Sacramento Bee – May 18, 2008
Let’s say we could pick up early signs of dementia; we’d then need to worry about whether this early-warning sign might be used to deny a person a driver’s license life insurance or provoke other types of discrimination or conflict. Again at this point because there is no accurate test we can offer to screen for early signs of dementia the best we can do is ask about symptoms and reassure people that some memory loss and forgetfulness is very normal. For those who do have symptoms the best we can do is diagnose the illness in order to involve them in care programs assure they are safe at home and when they go out and perhaps involve them in clinical research to look for new treatments. is a professor of medicine at the University of California Davis. Identifying characteristics of patients mentioned in his column are changed to protect their confidentiality.

Inching closer
Guardian Unlimited – May 18, 2008
We have learned a great deal about HIV – arguably more than about any other pathogen – and about its interaction with our immune system. nly in recent years have scientists from around the world begun to collaborate to turn this knowledge into novel designs for HIV vaccine candidates. Importantly developing countries are playing a crucial role in this effort following significant investment there in the infrastructure scientists and technicians necessary to conduct clinical research. With 33 million people living with HIV around the world and 2. 5 million newly infected last year it is clear that existing interventions are not successfully controlling this pandemic especially not in developing countries which account for 95% of new infections. Investing in Aids vaccine research is investing in an opportunity not just to ameliorate the suffering caused by Aids but to actually end the epidemic. Certainly that investment should not be at the expense of scaling up access to proven prevention strategies or of delivering much needed medication to people infected with HIV.

Uganda: Test Kids for HIV – Medic
AllAfrica.com – May 18, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Dr. Victor Musiime the head of pediatrics said out of 50000 children eligible to take AIDS drugs only 12000 access the treatment. "In Uganda 25000 babies are infected with HIV each year. Without treatment 66% of them will die before they are three years and 75% will die before they turn five" Musiime said on Saturday.

U. nursing student gets fellowship
Deseret News – May 18, 2008
She is only the second nurse to be awarded the honor in the scholarship program’s history. “riginally it was for medical students to get research experience but the last couple of years they’ve been trying to entice people in other fields” said Iribarren who plans eventually to work in international public health with the group the World Health rganization NIH or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Iribarren will spend almost a year working with a mentor in the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Buenos Aires Argentina. American fellows are paired with counterparts from other countries so she’ll be teamed with a student from Argentina although probably not a fellow nurse.