The rate of new HIV infections among blacks in South Carolina was six times higher than among all other races combined in 2006, according to new estimates released Friday by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Columbia State reports.
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The number of newly reported HIV cases in Alberta, Canada, increased by 29% in 2007 compared with 2005, the CP/Calgary Sun reports. Alberta recorded 225 new HIV cases in 2007, compared with 175 in 2005. Of those cases, 99 were recorded in Calgary, compared with 89 in Edmonton. According to the CP/Sun, Calgary has replaced Edmonton as the city in Alberta with the largest percentage of newly reported HIV cases: 43.8% compared with 39.8%, respectively.
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Scientists from John Hopkins University School of Medicine examined 10 growing, young, healthy pigs. Researchers chose pigs for the obesity study because they have anatomy very similar to humans.
Complete news at...Demonstrating that despite the large number of cancer-causing genes already identified, many more remain to be found, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have linked a previously unsuspected gene, CDK8, to colon cancer.
Complete news at...An increasing percentage of teenagers in Malawi have taken an HIV test during the past two years, according to a Welfare Monitoring Survey recently released by the National Statistical Office, Malawi's Nation Reporter reports. According to the survey, the percentage of Malawians older than age 15 who have ever received an HIV test increased from 20% in 2006 to 34% in 2007.
Complete news at...Scientists have developed a breast cancer vaccine which turned to be an effective and safe means for even very aggressive types of breast cancer in a mice trial.
According to the American Cancer Society statistics, breast cancer is the most deadly one causing 1.3 million newly diagnosed and 465000 deaths cases a year worldwide. Patients with HER2 positive cancer account for 20-30% of all cancer sufferers. This type of cancer is very aggressive and drug resistant. The most common drug to fight breast cancer is Herceptin, but HER2 cancer mutates and gets used to the drug.
Complete news at...A "two-speed" HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking place in Australia, Jonathan Anderson, president of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, writes in an Australian opinion piece. Rates among men who have sex with men "have been rising in Australia since the start of the decade," Anderson writes, adding that at the "same time, infections in new populations -- such as Australian heterosexual men traveling overseas for sex -- have highlighted the need for more sophisticated and complex responses."
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