Fact Sheet: New Estimates of U.S. HIV Prevalence, 2006

Fact Sheet: New Estimates of U.S. HIV Prevalence, 2006
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed new estimates of HIV prevalence, or the total number of people living with HIV in the United States.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships for HIV Prevention in Communities of Color
The mission of this fellowship program is to recruit, mentor, and train investigators to conduct domestic HIV/AIDS prevention research in communities of color.

New Look At The Causal Relationship Between Antibiotic Use And C. Difficile Infections

The latest study by Dr. Sandra Dial from the Research Institute of the MUHC, McGill University, and Attending Staff in the Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital, questions the assumption held by a vast majority of medical professionals that Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) infections are essentially always preceded by antibiotic use. This finding could have a major impact on how patients with diarrhea are evaluated upon their admission to the hospital. Complete news at...

Heartburn Treatments For Fast Relief

Suffering from this problem can be very painful for a lot of people. If you're unsure exactly what is happening, your stomach acid is making its way up the esophagus and this is how you get "heartburn". If this problem isn't dealt with it can lead to very long term effects. The acid in your stomach is actually very strong. It will eat away at your esophagus until it is gone. This is known as acid reflux disease. The sooner you treat this problem, the less damage it can do.

How The Altered Behavior Of Integrins Can Prompt Metastatic Movement In Tumor Cells

Caswell et al. report in the Journal of Cell Biology how the altered behavior of integrins can prompt metastatic movement in tumor cells. On 2D surfaces, cells may migrate randomly, or be strongly unidirectional. Integrins, which link the cell to the extracellular matrix, are known to influence the mode of migration, but exactly how has been unclear. More at...

What To stop cancer before it has a chance to take root and spread, scientists are increasingly turning their attention to new discoveries in cancer prevention. Leading experts from around the globe are gathering to share the latest research in this expanding and promising new field, with the hope this work will significantly reduce cancer incidence and mortality. More at...

Head and neck surgery is a diverse regional subspecialty, whose central focus is treatment of oncologic disorders of the neck. "Neck dissection is relevant to treatment of such disorders as squamous cell cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract, tongue cancer, laryngeal cancer, thyroid cancer, salivary gland cancer, and skin cancers of the head/neck region, including melanoma," explained William I. More at...

Two separate studies published in the same issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (October 10th 2008) provide valuable insights into the risk of suicide among patients with cancer. One study reveals that cancer patients are almost twice as likely to commit suicide as the general US population; while the other UK study found that a substantial number of cancer patients report feeling they would be "better off dead," or thoughts of "hurting themselves". More at...