News tagged with 'AIDS'

McNeil Consumer Healthcare makes a host of over-the-counter pain relievers and has found a chemical used to transport packing materials may have transferred to the product, creating a musty-mildew odor. Consumers should return any product listed in the recall with an odor and not take it.

The FDA has allowed many drugs that were fast-tracked to stay on the market while no post marketing surveillance has been undertaken and none have been pulled off the market, criticizes the Government Accountability Office in this report.

It is now thought to be possible one day to reduce the risk of contracting HIV with a vaccine after the largest clinical trial ever held cut the infection rate by 32 percent.

A new study released by the CDC shows birth rates among teens increased in 2006 and 2007 after a 14 year decline. The study found improving trends in teens’ and young adults’ sexual and reproductive health has stalled and/or in some cases worsened.

In a final ruling, the FDA has determined over-the-counter pain relievers such as Advil and Tylenol need to carry stronger warnings about the potential safety risks associated with use including liver damage and internal bleeding.

Drs. Margaret Hamburg and Joshua Sharfstein, both Harvard Medical School grads, have been chosen by President Obama to be the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.  They still must face confirmation hearings.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the sexually transmitted infection, chlamydia is at a record million plus new cases annually. The data, included in the annual Surveillance Report on STDs, indicates better reporting may account for the numbers.

Women who have unsafe sex could be at a greater risk of contracting HIV than originally thought, following tests that showed the virus could penetrate through healthy vaginal tissue.

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends all patients 13 and older be screened routinely for the HIV virus, whether or not they have engaged in risky behavior.

20 years after the World Health Organization declared the first World AIDS Day, there are still 33 million with the disease around the world. In the developing nations, getting needed medications to pregnant women so they don't transmit the virus to their children, is a huge stumbling block.

Despite government recommendations in 2006, only 5 percent of patients with signs of serious illness are being tested routinely in hospital emergency rooms for the virus that causes AIDS, finds a new study. HIV is a life-threatening disease that is severely under-diagnosed and undertreated in the U.S.

There may have been unknown factors at work; or it may be a fluke. But the case of a 42-year-old AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia gives new hope that gene-therapy strategies may one day hold a cure for AIDS.

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 250,000 Americans are HIV positive, but don’t know it. And most are not in high-risk groups.

Even though Vioxx and Bextra have been taken off the market because of a link to stroke and heart attack, a post-withdrawl study confirms the Cox-2 inhibitors increased the risk for stroke among Vioxx users by 28 percent and among Bextra users 41 percent when compared to the control group.

HIV is not in the news lately, and that may partially account for the lack of safety precautions among young men having sex with other young men. Kids as young as 13, are among the group getting the bulk of new AIDS/HIV cases called a "second epidemic"  by the CDC.