Posted on July - 07 - 2011
Life for someone living with HIV or Aids in Uganda is hard. It’s something I know from personal experience. There is no doubt that things have improved since the height of the epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, when people were dying with no care and treatment. But new infections and Aids-related deaths are still high today.
As a doctor, I regularly treat and advise people living with HIV. Out of the 414 centres accredited by the Ministry of Health to provide antiretroviral (ARV) treatment only 210 are operational – and it is common for them to run out of essential drugs.
Of the 1.2 million people living with HIV in Uganda more than 500,000 need ARVs, but only 238,000 are able to access them. T
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Posted on July - 07 - 2011
When Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby, MD, joined Duke as the new chair of psychiatry last October, she brought with her a prodigious lab that has been instrumental in developing new devices for psychiatric disorders.
Among them is a form of brain stimulation called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which, thanks to a study led by Lisanby, earned FDA approval in 2009 as a treatment for depression in patients who have failed medical therapy.
“TMS has been around since 1985 as a neuroscience tool,” says Lisanby, and recent advances in bioengineering have allowed TMS to transition from a basic tool of discovery to a therapeutic application. It
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Posted on July - 06 - 2011
THURSDAY, July 7, 2011 (Health.com) — Stepped-up colon-cancer screening has helped slash death rates from the disease across the U.S. in recent years, but not all regions of the country have benefited equally. According to a new study from the American Cancer Society, the drop in death rates has been considerably faster in the Northeast than in the South.
In the early 1990s, the states with the highest rates of colon-cancer deaths were clustered in the Rust Belt, Mid-Atlantic region, and New England. W
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Posted on July - 06 - 2011
Patients with nephrotic syndrome have damaged kidneys. The condition is marked by kidney malfunctions like decreased protein levels and increased cholesterol levels in blood. Besides prescribing medications, the doctor also asks the patient to follow a suggested diet plan; diet is extremely important for managing nephrotic syndrome. This article will discuss about the changes to be incorporated in the daily diet plan of a patient with nephrotic syndrome.
The diet plan for nephrotic syndrome patients must aim at compensating the protein loss occurring due to the disease. These patients must take a diet rich
in health proteins; this will protect the kidney from any further damage.
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