11 May, 2009 – 20:04 | 7 Comments

In an about-face to their stance during the Clinton Administration, leaders of the nation’s healthcare industry have promised to cut prices in response to the Obama Administration’s vow to resolve the healthcare crisis and make health care available to every…

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MRSA Becoming More Common After Dog, Cat Bites
22 June, 2009 – 21:36 | One Comment

Every year, in both the United States and Europe, just about 1% of all emergency room visits are the result of a dog or cat bite.  That percentage may seem small but a new report in the journal, Lancet Infectious…

UN: AIDS Drug Manufacturing in Africa Saves Lives, Eases Economic Woes
22 April, 2009 – 23:00 | 2 Comments

To best fight the ravages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, it must begin manufacturing its own supply of generic drugs, according to Michel Sidibé, a 57-year-old resident of the African nation, Mali.  Sidibé has just been named Executive Director…

HIV+ Idaho Man Faces Life In Prison For Deliberately Infecting Others
16 March, 2009 – 1:41 | No Comment

Kerry Thomas, 45, has been to prison twice for deliberately infecting others with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and now he’s out again on parole.  This concerns the Ada County, Idaho, deputy prosecutor enough that she’s filed charges with the…

Media-Educated Cancer Patients Get Better Treatment
24 February, 2009 – 13:27 | No Comment

As many as 69% of colon cancer patients in a single study say they turned to the internet and other media outlets for information on their diagnosis.  These media-educated patients get better treatment and newer medications, both of which improves…

HIV Gene Therapy Study Hailed as ‘Major Advance’
18 February, 2009 – 6:18 | 7 Comments

The February 15 issue of the medical journal, ‘Nature Medicine,’ carries the full report of a clinical trial on a gene therapy for treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  The therapy has proven so promising it is being hailed as a…

HIV Prevention Pill Nearing End of Trial
23 January, 2009 – 11:33 | 3 Comments

In June, people on three continents will know if the pills they’ve been taking to prevent HIV infection were the real thing or placebos.  As the test of tenofovir, said to be an HIV prevention pill, nears the end of…

A Kidney, A Marriage, And A Million-plus Dollars Tell A Sad Tale
8 January, 2009 – 20:05 | 2 Comments

Richard Batista, a New York surgeon, was very much in love with Dawnell, his wife and mother of his three children, in 2001 when he donated one of his own kidneys in order to save her life.  Unfortunately, this tale…

As Snow Piles Up, Americans Are Asked to Adopt A Fire Hydrant
30 December, 2008 – 21:38 | One Comment

Winter has come with a vengeance across much of the United States and Canada, leaving fire departments everywhere on heightened alert as people struggle to stay warm inside.  Outside, however, as the snow piles up, fire hydrants are becoming buried,…

Miracle Boy, 9, Recovers from Car Crash Decapitation
22 December, 2008 – 23:43 | 3 Comments

Jordan Taylor was buckled up, snug and secure, in the back seat of his mom’s car when a dump truck ran a stop sign and slammed into the family car.  The force of the crash was so violent Jordan’s head…

Medical Conscience Rule Bush’s Last Moral Stand?
22 December, 2008 – 5:31 | One Comment

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects every American from discrimination in the workplace when religious differences surface.  A growing and vocal group of healthcare workers say they are being discriminated against, in spite of the 1964 act, when their…

Did Marrow Transplant Cure AIDS?
14 November, 2008 – 6:22 | No Comment

That’s the question abuzz in the medical community as doctors around the globe discuss a bone marrow transplant, performed in Berlin, that is said to have cured the patient of AIDS. Twenty months after the transplant, some critics suggest the…

Quality-of-Care Gap Extreme in US Hospitals
17 October, 2008 – 6:21 | No Comment

Residents of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin can rest easy when admitted to the region’s hospitals.  According to the HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, the hospitals in this, the East North Central region, are the best in the…

AIDS, Cancer Researchers Share Nobel Prize
13 October, 2008 – 11:54 | One Comment

Recent announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine marks, for some, the end of a long-running controversy surrounding which team of researchers are to be credited with discovering the AIDS virus. Two French researchers were named, along…

HIV/AIDS May Have Originated in 19th Century
7 October, 2008 – 6:25 | One Comment

Painstaking research using modern genetic technologies has placed the origin of the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping the world today at somewhere between 1884 and 1924, much earlier than the 1930 point of origin previously estimated.  The same period of time saw…