The first randomised trial to investigate the treatment of low bone density in young people with cystic fibrosis (CF), published Online First in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, provides compelling evidence that alendronate (a drug that curbs bone loss) is safe and can help increase bone mineral...
Our gut is home to trillions of bacteria, numbering more than the cells in the rest of our body, and these bacteria help us to digest our food, absorb nutrients and strengthen our immune system. This complex bacterial ecosystem, called the gut microbiota, also helps to prevent bad bacteria from...
Dining Out For Life® is fundraising venture for outstanding HIV/AIDS service organizations and programs throughout the United States and Canada. Since 1991, Dining Out has been produced by local HIV/AIDS service organizations — ensuring that funds raised local stay local. Click link for...
Dine Out. Fight AIDS! ...on April 25th, 2013 Outrageously successful, openly-gay, openly-HIV-positive Project Runway designer Mondo Guerra drops by the SnowbizNow Studios to discuss Dining Out For Life®, a fundraising venture for outstanding HIV/AIDS service organizations and programs throughout...
The Catholic Church has a new leader in time for Palm Sunday! Now, the world can get to know Pope Francis I, formerly known as*Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pope Francis is the first non-European Pope, the fact of which has dominated the early reports of his election...
A compound that stimulates the production of a tumor-fighting protein may improve the usefulness of the protein in cancer therapy, according to a team of researchers. TRAIL is a natural anti-tumor protein that suppresses tumor development during immune surveillance -- the immune system's process...
In monkeys and humans with AIDS, damage to the gastrointestinal tract is common, contributing to activation of the immune system, progressive immune deficiency, and ultimately advanced AIDS. How this gastric damage occurs has remained a mystery, but now researchers reporting in the Cell Press...
Wearing a knee brace following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery has no effect on a person's recovery. However, strength, range-of- motion, and functionality exercises provide significant benefits, and other new therapies may show promise. In a new literature review recently published...
Heart failure is the most common cause of death throughout the world, typically the result of chronic high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. As a result, research efforts have focused on an array of approaches aimed at preventing and treating high blood pressure. Recently, Japanese...
Is it true there is a group of people in each rave infecting people with aids by injecting them with infected needles, is this true or just a rumor? I really want to go to a rave buts simply not worth getting aids.
I went in today to turn in my application, and the manager told me to go on their website and take the little quiz that will tell him about my drug habits or whatever online before he will call for an interview. It requires the store number and the area code, but I can't find whatever he is...
Today, *President Barack Obama is joining Bono, Alicia Keys, moderator Dr. Sanjay Gupta,*and former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton*at a comprehensive forum hosted by George Washington University, in Washington DC. The event, entitled "The Beginning of the End of AIDS" will feature...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day, so we're joining the world in celebrating progress and setting new goals on the road to an AIDS-free world. Like with any other aspect of health, knowledge is power: The more we know about AIDS and HIV, the better equipped we'll all be to...
As World AIDS Day approaches, there are several encouraging statistics to celebrate: The UN says that world HIV/AIDS-related deaths have fallen 21% since their peak in 2005. The cost of treatment has decreased steadily in recent years. And plenty more statistics point to overwhelmingly positive...
Yesterday we asked you if your doctor screens you for HIV, and the majority of you said that he never even asks if you want to be tested, even though the CDC recommends that HIV testing be a standard part of our medical care for every American aged 13–64, and 20% of the almost 1.2 million...