HealthDay - SUNDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) — The antiretroviral drug
nevirapine may help prevent babies of HIV-positive mothers from getting
the virus through breast-feeding, but it also greatly increases the odds
of developing drug-resistant HIV if they are infected during the first
year of life, a new study finds.
AFP - UNAIDS on Thursday criticised Senegal for jailing nine gay men, saying that homophobic acts would not help efforts to prevent HIV infection in the west African country.
Reuters - Their clothing allowance has been halved, they’ve had to fire their personal trainers and their sex lives have tanked.
Reuters - Their clothing allowance has been halved, they’ve had to fire their personal trainers and their sex lives have tanked.
Reuters - The case of an HIV-infected heart surgeon in Israel reinforces the message that the risk of transmitting HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — from surgeon to patient is very low, according to an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Reuters - People who suffer from winter depression known as “seasonal affective disorder” or SAD — or the less severe but more common “winter blues” — shouldn’t seek relief in a tanning bed or booth, a leading expert on light therapy warns.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) — Steroid medications that
are commonly prescribed to improve asthma symptoms don’t help ease
wheezing associated with a virus in preschoolers, two new reports
suggest.
Reuters - Giving steroids to children who are wheezing because of viral or other infections does not help, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Reuters - Patients with the chronic breathing disorder COPD appear to have a significantly higher risk of becoming clinically depressed than healthy individuals and patients with another common chronic condition - diabetes.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) — Frequent exposure to
hospital cleaning products and disinfectants greatly increases nurses’
risk of asthma, according to a U.S. study that included 3,650 Texan health
care professionals, including 941 nurses.