Topic: The Lancet
Rich countries have funnelled billions of health care dollars, euros and yen into the developing world despite the worst economic downturn in decades, according to a study released Tuesday.But the pace of giving has slowed considerably, said the report by the Institute ...
Homosexual men in Europe are increasingly failing to adhere to safe sex, according to two new studies. In France, transmission of the AIDS virus "seems to be out of control" among men who have sex with men, said a paper published on ...
In patients co-infected with HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 2, treating the herpes infection with acyclovir likely delays the progression of HIV, according to a study published online Feb. 15 in The Lancet.. Jairam R. Lingappa, M.D., of the University of ...
Traffic accidents, suicide and violence, as well as AIDS and tuberculosis are among the leading causes of early death among the world's under-24s, according to a paper published on Friday in The Lancet.Epidemiologists pored over data from the 2.6 million deaths that ...
South Africa launches campaign to get vaccinations, vitamins to 3 million childrenThe doctor praised for re-energizing South Africa's Health Ministry launched a major campaign Monday to get vaccinations and immunity-boosting vitamins to 3 million children across the country over the next two ...
A combination treatment for HIV infection including the novel HIV-1 integrase inhibitor raltegravir was non-inferior to the established combination treatment including efavirenz in an international multicenter clinical trial, according to a study published online Aug. 3 in The Lancet.. Jeffrey L. Lennox, ...
Not all of the billions of dollars given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to boost global health have been wisely spent, one of Britain's top medical journals said on Friday.While praising the outsized philanthropy of the Microsoft founder and his ...
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Infectious Disease for November 2008. FRIDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Failure to cook not-ready-to-eat frozen foods caused a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections during 2007, according ...
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in HIV & AIDS for November 2008. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A reluctance by the Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to ...
As the number of countries reporting intravenous drug use has increased over the last decade, a new study suggests that as many as 3 million of these addicts may be HIV-positive.. The data, published online in The Lancet, found the proportions of ...
