An annual study by the largest drug-testing company in the U.S. found that 22 percent fewer workers tested positive for methamphetamine in 2007, leading drug czar John Walters to declare that cutting back on the availability of precursor drugs is
Utah lawmakers have amended state law to ban grocery stores from selling wine coolers and flavored malt beverages -- also known as 'alcopops' -- and restrict sales of these products to state liquor stores.
Diversion and misuse of prescription drugs is a growing problem, but one that physicians can help prevent by asking patients about their addiction history before prescribing drugs with high abuse potential, experts say.
British researchers found that babies born to women who quit smoking when they became pregnant were more cheerful and adaptive than those born to women who kept smoking.
Cyclic nucleotide signalling through cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is thought to play an important role in the transformation of the long slender (dividing) form to the short-stumpy (arrested) form in the mammalian bloodstream but the role of cyclic nucleotides in
IntroductionHepatic abscesses have been reported as a rare complication of diverticulitis of the bowel. This complication is recognized more commonly at the time of the diagnosis of diverticulitis, or ruptured diverticula, but also can be diagnosed prior to surgery, or
Background:The aim of this study was to determine if remotely sensed data and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) can test relationships between Culex quinquefasciatus and Anopheles gambiae s.l. larval habitats and environmental parameters within Internally Displaced People (IDP) campgrounds in Gulu,
This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 14 program resources with Web links, and 25 summaries of published research articles, including several multiple-country studies, from Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cote
Miami Herald - March 14, 2008 Jacqueline Charles, jcharles@MiamiHerald.com http://www.aegis.org/news/mh/2008/MH080305.html First lady Laura Bush visited [A ...
Business Wire - March 13, 2008 http://www.aegis.org/news/BW/2008/BW080322.html MINNEAPOLIS--Minnesota AIDS Project, the leading source for HIV information and service ...
UN Integrated Regional Information Network - March 14, 2008 http://www.aegis.org/news/irin/2008/IR080318.htmlKAMPALA, 14 March 2008 (PlusNews) - Fatuma and Hamidu Kamugisha met 12 years ago as ...
Associated Press - March 13, 2008 Jim Abrams http://www.aegis.org/news/ap/2008/AP080333.htmlWASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday approved the ...
Biden-Lugar AIDS Legislation Passed by Senate Committee: Senator Lugar Calls $50 Billion a 'Reasonable Target' Business Wire - March 13, 2008 AIDS Alliance today released t ...
International donors are expected to "drastically" reduce their contributions to HIV/AIDS programs in Indonesia in part because donors now consider the country to be a middle-income nation, Indonesian Welfare Minister Aburizal Barkie said Wednesday, Reuters reports. Foreign aid currently accounts
CMS on Wednesday said Medicare will continue to pay for a form of CT scan that can detect heart disease, despite "uncertainty regarding any potential health benefits" from the procedure, the New York Times reports. According to the Times ,
The low rate of condom use in Rwanda is primarily the result of stigma and a lack of access in remote areas of the country, officials said in the capital of Kigali during the launch of the final phase of
Medicare has agreed to pay 667 hospitals $666 million to settle a lawsuit over a reimbursement policy from the 1980s, the Wall Street Journal reports. The policy, which took effect in 1986, changed Medicare reimbursement rules to exclude certain low-income
The New York Times on Thursday examined the lottery being conducted in Oregon to fill vacant slots in the Oregon Health Plan . The Oregon Health Plan, which is part of the state's Medicaid program, provides coverage for uninsured people
The Iowa House on Tuesday voted 97-0 to pass a bill ( HF 2539 ) that would expand health insurance to nearly all children in the state by 2011, the Des Moines Register reports. The bill, which also would create
