Cervical Cancer Vaccine
There is a medical breakthrough tonight in the prevention of cervical cancer. A major drug company has announced its experimental cervical cancer vaccine is highly effective.
This cervical cancer vaccine, which is not the only one in development, was shown to be 100 percent effective!
Merck & Co. said on Thursday that the first large study of an experimental cervical cancer vaccine was completely effective in the short term, at blocking the most common forms of cervical cancer.
Gardasil is a genetically engineered cervical cancer vaccine that blocks infection by the two viruses that together cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers. (Read more about Cervical Cancer Vaccine)
Related Links:
|
HIV GEL SPECIAL REPORT
In recent years the scientific community has made big strides in the treatment of AIDS, meeting with considerable success in holding off progression of the disease. Now some researchers are focusing their fight on HIV prevention.
As the fight against AIDS rages on, on many fronts worldwide, it may be making headway in a laboratory in New York City. (Read more about HIV GEL SPECIAL REPORT)
Related Links:
|
AIDS STRAIN CONCERN
Concern about the case of the highly resistant aids strain has not abated. In fact, there are growing numbers of reports around the country that this might not be the only case.
Still, there are many questions and unresolved issues.
The first case in New York is of a man, whose identity is being withheld, is in his mid-40s and admitted to taking part in unprotected anal intercourse with multiple…literally hundreds of sex partners, often times while high on crystal methamphetamine. The case progressed rapidly, which is what particularly concerns New York health officials (Read more about AIDS STRAIN CONCERN)
Related Links:
|
HIV TESTING
There is a debate on about whether it would be worthwhile to carry out early HIV testing on large sections of the population. Should our entire population get routine AIDS testing, rather than targeting those groups at high risk? There is new evidence tonight that says we should promote early HIV testing, and that it could have important public health ramifications.
Almost a third of Americans infected with HIV don’t know it.
Yet, today, it’s easy to conduct early HIV tests that can detect the virus accurately. Currently in the United States, diagnosis of AIDS usually occurs at a more advanced stage of the disease, when the patient comes in with a serious illness due to the HIV virus. Early screening would help patients get access to care before they get severely ill, and according to this study, would prolong life (Read more about HIV TESTING)
Related Links:
|
HIV
The virus that causes aids is called HIV. Once it end on a person's blood stream, the aids HIV virus attaches itself to the surface of the active T-cells, then inserts its own genetic information inside of that nucleus. (Read more about HIV)
Related Links:
|
Aids Vaccine
The first experimental vaccine against the aids virus has been approved for test among humans. However, it combats the A strain of the virus which predominates only in Africa. (Read more about Aids Vaccine)
Related Links:
|
PAINFUL PERIODS
Can high levels of stress increase the risk of having painful periods? New research by Chicago researchers says it can.
Jessica Lindstrom is 27 years old, and although she’s totally healthy, sometimes her body turns on her at the time of the month. Her periods are agonizing. “I have intense lower back pain, nausea, and stomach irritation. There’s also pain when tightening the lower abdomen,” says Jessica. (Read more about PAINFUL PERIODS)
Related Links:
|
CONDOM CONCERNS
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the battle towards prevention of sexually transmitted diseases needs to move front and center. Sexually transmitted disease prevention is a crucial issue, particularly since the rates of their incidence are on the rise among teens and young adults. Now, one Ivy League college has decided to force the issue of sexually transmitted disease prevention to the forefront. (Read more about CONDOM CONCERNS)
Related Links:
|
STD HOME TEST KIT
A new STD home test kit attempts to make it easier for women to guard their privacy, but at the same time allow efficient testing to check the spread of STDs like gonorrhea and Chlamydia.
“I think STDs are somewhat hush-hush because people don’t want to know,” says Angela, a college senior.
“Most people refuse to believe it could happen to them,” says Laura, another college senior. (Read more about STD HOME TEST KIT)
Related Links:
|
|