Making HIV tests 'Routine': concerns and implications.
Well over two decades after the AIDS epidemic burst onto the American scene, an estimated 40,000-55,000 people in the United States are still newly infected each year--a statistic that has remained relatively unchanged since 1998. A staggering one in four individuals with HIV--about 250,000 Americans--are believed to be unaware...

High fructose intake may increase kidney risks.
Mounting evidence linking high consumption of fructose to an increased risk of kidney disease could have clinical implications for the treatment of high-risk patients. Data from recent studies suggest high fructose intake causes elevated uric acid levels, which might contribute to the development of kidney stones and...

Influenza pandemic: nothing to sneeze about?
ONF-06-47-I This independent study has been developed to provide nurses with an overview of influenza and influenza-like illnesses. 1.5 contact hour will be awarded. The Ohio Nurses Foundation (OBN-001-91) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission...

The quarantine quandary.
When globetrotting groom Andrew Speaker was discovered to be carrying tuberculosis (TB) germs in May 2007, virtually no one questioned that the state should and could protect us from him. Apparently, healthy citizens suddenly lose their rights upon becoming ill; contagious folks who disobey public-health officials may be forcibly...

Export Action Line; The lure of medical tourism Part III.
Byline: Nelly Favis-Villafuerte The medical tourism industry is now fast becoming a global multibillion-dollar industry. More and more countries are looking at medical tourism as an opportunity to promote both their medical services and their tourism industry in just one package deal. One such country is Cuba....

Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.5. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved.
Holmberg, Scott D. Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.5. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008; www.praeger.com Part history, part narrative, and principally a scientific autopsy, this book is an insider's account of the errors, controversies, and corrections that...

Kidney risk may rise with high fructose consumption.
Mounting evidence linking high consumption of fructose to an increased risk of kidney disease could have clinical implications for the treatment of high-risk patients. Data from recent studies suggest that high fructose intake causes elevated uric acid levels, which might contribute to the development of kidney stones...

New method to track disease could save lives: innovative research that harnesses maths and biology could help predict which infectious strains of disease have the potential to go global and become epidemics.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr Andrew Francis from the University of Western Sydney and Dr Mark Tanaka from the University of New South Wales, have designed a model for tracking tuberculosis TB)infections. The research, funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, was recently published in the...

Antibiotics, painkillers sales at all time high.
Byline: Rupali Mukherjee NEW DELHI: Rise in viral/bacterial infections and a massive resurgence of epidemics last year led to a huge spurt in the acute segment (antibiotics and pain killers), surpassing even that of chronic/lifestyle therapy segment for the first time in recent years. Sales...

Health officials busy as monsoon nears.
Byline: Vishwas Kothari PUNE: The state public health department's preparedness in handling outbreak of epidemics will once again be put to a severe test during the monsoon. The last two years, in particular, haven't been good in terms of epidemics that registered a sharp increase - courtesy...