 January 30, 2012
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January 27, 2012
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New Standards for Sexual Health Care of Youth in Detention
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) has released the first set of standards created to ensure that sexual health care is included in basic medical services for young people in detention and other types of state custody, such as foster care, according to a CHLP statement.
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January 26, 2012
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Rapid HIV Test Results From Blood Slightly Better Than Saliva
Test results from the Oraquick rapid HIV test are slightly more accurate when they use blood samples compared with saliva samples, according to a University Health Center of Montreal study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and reported by MedPage Today.
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Chill Out! Body’s Brown Fat Supply May Be Key to Weight Loss
Think all fat is the same white, translucent color? Wrong. Scientists say there’s another kind; it’s brown, and because it burns calories instead of storing them, it might just help people lose weight, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and reported by Time magazine.
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January 25, 2012
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Less than 1 in 2 HIV-Positive U.S. Residents Are in Regular Care
Less than half of people living with HIV in the United States are being retained in ongoing medical care, according to a new analysis by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators published online ahead of print by the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The sobering statistics, which include the finding that only two thirds of people testing positive for HIV are being successfully linked to medical care within a year of their diagnosis, help explain those of another recent CDC analysis indicating that only 28 percent of U.S. residents living with HIV have undetectable viral loads.
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Activists Protest at FDA Against Approval of Truvada as PrEP
Activists from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) held a protest outside Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters because of their denied access to review Gilead Science’s application for Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), according to an AHF statement.
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January 24, 2012
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HHS Confirms Health Care Insurers Must Cover Contraceptives
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued final rules that confirm health care insurers must officially cover preventative health services for women, including contraceptives and HIV testing, under the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. health care reform, according to an HHS statement.
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Study: Many Poor Parents Water Down Infant Formula
Things are not exactly rosy for some babies in tough economic times. In order to make ends meet, one in eight low-income parents stretch formula or just cut back on how much food they give their kids, according to a new study on infants published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics and reported by MSNBC.
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| January 23, 2012
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January 20, 2012
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Etta James, Renowned Singer, Dead at 73
Etta James, an American singer of numerous musical genres who won six Grammys and was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died January 20, Rolling Stone reports.
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CDC: Fewer Americans Having Unsafe Sex
The number of Americans who practice behaviors that put them at risk for HIV has declined significantly, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and reported by HealthDay.
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First PrEP Study for MSM in Europe to Launch
The first HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trial for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Europe is about to launch, according to a statement by ANRS (French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis).
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| January 19, 2012
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January 17, 2012
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AIDS Groups File Brief in Support of Health Care Reform
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) and 15 other HIV advocacy organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief January 13 in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. health care reform, according to a CHLP statement.
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Loss of Federal Funds Cut HIV Prevention Jobs in Georgia
Georgia’s Department of Public Health is cutting 26 state HIV prevention jobs based on the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strategy of concentrating prevention efforts in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions that have the highest rates, including Atlanta, The Telegraph reports.
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More Minorities Buy Unhealthy Breakfast Cereals
Minorities families, especially African-American families, with children are more likely to
buy sugary, nutritionally challenged cereal than other demographic groups,
according to a study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition and
reported by the Yale Daily News.
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January 13, 2012
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Study Confirms Viral Load Most Important Predictor of HIV Transmission
A new African study of heterosexual HIV-serodiscordant couples—in which one partner is positive and the other is negative—confirms that viral load is the most important factor influencing the risk of transmitting the virus, according to data published in the February 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The findings also stress the importance of other transmission variables, including condom use, age, male circumcision status and the presence of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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January 12, 2012
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Occasional Marijuana Smoking Does Not Impair Lung Function
Potential good news for marijuana users—occasionally smoking pot did not affect pulmonary function and may actually increase lung airflow rates and lung capacity, according to a new study published in the January 11 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Though the study does not speak to the pulmonary effects of marijuana smoking by people living with HIV, the results will likely help guide risk-versus-benefit analyses of marijuana use to alleviate a variety of disease-related symptoms.
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Beyonce Doesn’t Have a Cesarean but Does Gives Birth to C-Section Talks
If you haven’t heard the news, it turns out music megastar Beyonce didn’t have a cesarean (a.k.a. C-section) after all. But now that the rumor mill has stopped moving, people are still talking about this method of baby delivery, according to Time magazine. In fact, the rates of C-sections only recently slightly declined, marking the first drop in 10 years.
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January 11, 2012
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HIV Rates Increasing in Navajo Nation
HIV rates are rising in the Navajo Nation at a time when rates are holding steady or declining in other minority groups across the United States, The Los Angeles Times reports.
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January 10, 2012
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Traffic Pollutant May Put Black Women at Risk of Diabetes
Cars are a convenience many people wouldn’t want to do
without, but the air pollution they cause is linked to heart problems. Now
findings show the nitrous oxide autos release into the air might be associated
with African-American women developing diabetes, according to a study published
in the journal Circulation and reported by The Boston Globe.
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January 09, 2012
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Atlanta Case Manager Gets 15 Years in HIV Medicaid Scam
George Boyd, an Atlanta nonprofit worker who volunteered to help people with HIV and then used their personal information to defraud Georgia’s Medicaid program, was sentenced to three years in prison, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reports.
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| January 06, 2012
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January 05, 2012
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CDC Gives $339M to Health Departments for HIV Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has started awarding almost $339 million in HIV prevention funds to state and local health departments in the first year of a five-year funding cycle, according to a CDC statement.
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Colon Cancer Death Rates Decline Among Blacks, but Fewer Whites Die of the Disease
Talk about unsettling. Before 1980, fewer African Americans died of colorectal cancer than their white counterparts, but today, even with improved screening and treatments, more blacks than whites die of the illness, according to American Cancer Society (ACS) study findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and reported by MedlinePlus.
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January 04, 2012
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Advocates Support Federal HIV Decriminalization Bill
A coalition of advocacy groups, backed by U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), has launched a campaign to press for review and repeal of criminal laws that target HIV-positive people, The Associated Press (AP) reports.
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January 03, 2012
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Shh! Mum’s the Word to Achieve New Year Resolutions Success
Ok, so this is the year you’ll finally lose those extra five pounds. If you’re smart, you’ll keep your mouth shut about your intentions. Why? Because the secret to weight loss may be in just doing it instead of talking about what you’ll do, according a number of psychological studies, reports MSNBC.com’s Health TODAY.
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| January 02, 2012
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