Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) has made grants to three state boards of education to promote more effective instruction to K-12 students about HIV prevention. The $13,000 grants are being made to the North Carolina, Oregon, and Tennessee State Boards of Education.
"HIV remains a dire threat ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the University of Florida suggests that 'tweens' should receive alcohol prevention programs prior to sixth grade, when nearly one in six children are already alcohol users.
The study found that adolescents who already use alcohol are less receptive to ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
With a four-year, $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society, Yanchang Wang, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the Florida State University College of Medicine, hopes to learn how a particular enzyme could possibly help put the brakes on the runaway cell division process that occurs in many forms of ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Two advocates have received the inaugural Omololu Falobi Award for Excellence in HIV Prevention Research Community Advocacy. The awards honor the late Omololu Falobi, a long-time HIV advocate and journalist who founded Journalists Against AIDS in Nigeria, was an instrumental pioneer member of the Nigerian Treatment Access Movement, and co-founded ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Obesity is one of the greatest health risks for children in the United States and, unfortunately, it's on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of obese children in America has tripled since 1980. To help Rush University Medical Center more effectively address this ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
China's Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced that the country this year will develop an HIV prevention policy to curb the spread of the virus among men who have sex with men, China Daily reports (Juan, China Daily, 2/21).
According to the health ministry's 2008 plan for disease prevention and control, ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The National Osteoporosis Foundation released its new "Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis" which represents a new era for healthcare providers in the evaluation and treatment of people with low bone mass or osteoporosis.
The Clinician's Guide was developed by an expert committee of NOF collaborating with a multi-specialty ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Recent arrests by Egyptian authorities of several people suspected to have HIV are undermining efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and violating human rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint statement released on Friday, the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune reports (Kratovac, AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2/15).
HRW ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Biovail Corporation (NYSE: BVF) (TSX: BVF) announced that it has received a Notice of Compliance from the Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) for its supplemental New Drug Submission (sNDS) for a new indication for Wellbutrin® XL in Canada - the prevention of major depressive illness with an autumn-winter seasonal pattern.
The approval ...
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