News tagged with 'HIV'

BP stations around the U.S. are suffering from sluggish sales and destruction of the BP logo, and the oil giant is reaching out to help. Were 1,800 veterans exposed to HIV and hepatitis at a veterans hospital in Missouri? Some injury related headlines around the web for Wednesday June 30.

CT scans, commonly used to get a 3-D picture of the body, pose a higher risk of cancer than previously thought, concludes two published studies, and may be responsible for 29,000 future cancers, particularly in the abdomen and pelvis.

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.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) appeared before a Congressional subcommittee on Tuesday to discuss the exposure of thousands of veterans to HIV and other diseases.

Circumcision reduced cases of herpes and human papillomavirus in Ugandan men, say researchers from Johns Hopkins. Circumcision is already known to reduce HIV infections. Researchers are calling for higher circumcision rates. 

The FDA is warning against the sharing of insulin pens and cartridges after the practice at some Army hospitals apparently led to the sharing of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis C.

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.

In the United States there are 19 million new STD cases diagnosed each year. inSPOT is an Internet service that allows people to notify their sex partners that they may have been infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

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.

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.