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Stigma Blocks Access to Care for Young Gays and Transgenders: AIDS Conference

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Young men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people shared their experiences of external and internalized stigma they face at 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014). Young MSM and transgender people face unique self-issues, including intense self-stigma. Self-issues are defined by Youth Voices Count (YVC) as a set of concerns that positively or negatively impact self-acceptance, self-perception, self-efficacy, self-esteem and self-confidence. ...

Ferric Citrate may Reduce Dialysis Patients' Need for Multiple Medications: Study

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Ferric citrate may cut dialysis patients' need to take multiple drugs that treat complications related to kidney disease, says study published in i Journal of the American Society of Nephrology/i. More than 400,000 patients in the United States are on dialysis to treat their kidney disease. Most of these patients need to take medications that bind to phosphorus in their food to reduce toxic buildup of the mineral in their bodies. They also must take drugs to ...

Nigeria on Red Alert After First Ebola Death, Say Reports

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Sources say Nigeria was on alert against the possible spread of Ebola on Saturday, a day after the first confirmed death from the virus in Lagos. The health ministry said Friday that a 40-year-old Liberian man died at a private hospital in Lagos from the disease, which has now killed more than 650 people in four west African countries since January -- the deadliest outbreak in history. The victim, who worked for the Liberian government, collapsed ...

High Profile Air Disasters Making Passengers Apprehensive of Boarding Their Flights

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A number of high profile air disasters, including three in just one week, have increased panic among passengers before boarding their flights. Waiting to check in at Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport on Friday, Thai athlete Thapanat Rueangmanee, 25, admitted to being "a little bit nervous, like most of my friends". She had come to the French capital for an athletics meetings, and she had no other choice but to fly home. "We can't take the boat," she ...

Durban Declared as Venue for 2016 AIDS Conference

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Organizers of the AIDS conference revealed that the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016 will take place in South Africa's port city of Durban. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in Melbourne drew around 20,000 people, of whom 13,600 were delegates and the rest were members of the public who attended an outreach ...

Is Responsiveness Attractive to Opposite Sex?

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A new study published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin hopes to shed more light on the role played by responsiveness in increasing desire among men and women who are on their first dates. Femininity and Attractiveness Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, the University of Rochester, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, collaborated on three studies to observe people's perceptions of responsiveness. ...

HPV Vaccination Among Sexually Active Minority Women may Provide Some Protection

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A new study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases reveals that providing Human Papillomavirus vaccination to minority women, even after they became sexually active, led to lower rates of abnormal Pap test results compared to those who were not vaccinated. Researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine conducted a cross-sectional study of 235 women age 21 to 30 undergoing routine cervical cytology testing. HPV ...

Native Pluripotent Human Embryonic Stem Cells Developed by Whitehead Institute Researchers

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Researchers have always hoped that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) could provide insight into numerous diseases and also be used to treat them. Yet progress has been hampered by the inability to transfer research and tools from mouse ESC studies to their human counterparts, in part because human ESCs are "primed" and slightly less plastic than the mouse cells. Now Thorold Theunissen, Benjamin Powell, and Haoyi Wang, who are scientists in the lab of Whitehead ...

Cancer Cells Make Collective Effort to Spread Further and Faster

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In a finding that could lead to development of new drugs for treating skin cancer, including melanoma, a new study published in the journal Cell Reports reveals that cancerous cells work together to spread further and faster. Cancer Research UK scientists at The University of Manchester found that some melanoma cells are particularly fast growing, but not very good at invading the surrounding tissue, while other melanoma cells are the opposite - highly invasive ...

Czech Convicts Fix Old Bicycles for Gambian School Kids

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Convicts in Hermanice prison in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava are trying to do a good turn by volunteering to fix old bicycles for charity organizations so that they can be used by kids in rural Gambia to reach distant schools. Surrounded by tools and air pumps, the inmates spin wheels, bicycle chains and gears in two prison workshops under the watchful eye of armed guards. Vaclav, a bearded 35-year-old serving 20 months for theft, expertly fastens ...

Dogs Get Jealous When Owners Play With Other Dogs

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Dogs are known to be obedient and affectionate but a new study suggests that they may display jealous behavior as well if they see their owners playing with another dog compared to random objects. According to the study by researchers from UC San Diego, the canines exhibit behaviors like snapping or pushing their owners and the findings support the view that jealousy evolved to secure resources, not just in the context of sexual relationships, but also in any of ...

Risk of Skin Cancer High Among Patients Who Complain of Skin Lesions Being Painful or Itchy

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A new study led by Gil Yosipovitch from the Department of Dermatology at Temple University School of Medicine reveals that doctors who ask patients if a suspicious skin lesion is painful or itchy can make better decisions on whether the spot is likely to be cancerous. The study, published online by emJAMA Dermatology/em on July 23, 2014, found that nearly 36. 9 percent of skin cancer lesions are accompanied by itching, while 28.2 percent involve pain. Non-melanoma ...

People With Military Service More Likely to Have Suffered from Adverse Childhood Experiences

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A new study led by John R. Blosnich from the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System has found that men and women who are in the military are more likely to have suffered from adverse childhood events (ACEs) which in turn could have made them view enlistment as a way to escape adversity. Background: The prevalence of ACEs among U.S. military members and veterans is largely unknown. ACEs can result in severe adult health consequences such as posttraumatic ...

Brain Therapies may Help Fight Growing Obesity Problem

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A new study conducted by researchers at American University's Center for Behavioral Neuroscience suggests that developing therapies that target brain areas responsible for memory and learning may help treat obesity and dementia. Furthermore, treatments that focus on the hippocampus could play a role in reducing certain dementias."In the struggle to treat these diseases, therapies and preventive measures often fall short. This is a new way for providers who treat ...

Anti-Retroviral Therapy for HIV Patients Will also Treat HCV Infections

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Researchers at University of Cincinnati have found that using anti-retroviral therapy in treating HIV patients who are also infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) will not only help deal with HIV, but also reduce HCV replication, a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine reveals. Previously, physicians treating co-infected patients worried that HIV antiretroviral therapy might injure the liver to the detriment of patient health, says Kenneth ...

Research Indicates New Regions of Genetic Material are Involved in the Development of Colon Cancer

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Till date, research on cancer genetics has been focused on the regions of the coding genome (exons) that are to be translated in the form of amino acids. But just before each gene, there is a regulatory region or activator which controls the expression and activity of the adjacent gene. Until now, very little was known of the role exerted such DNA fragment in tumor development. An article published today in emNature/em in collaboration with the ...

Membrane Filter That Cleans Polluted Drinking Water Developed

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ETH student Jeremy Nussbaumer teamed up with researchers led by Wendelin Stark, from the Functional Materials Laboratory, in developing the prototype of a membrane filter that can provide clean water for millions of people around the world. "What makes our DrinkPure filter unique is that you can screw it on to virtually any plastic bottle. It doesn't require a pump or a reservoir, so it's very easy to use," explains the student from the canton of Aargau. "You simply ...

Settings Outside Hospitals Play Key Role in Onset and Possible Transmission of Clostridium Difficile Infections

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Researchers at Kaiser Permanente suggested that four in five hospitalized patients who were tested positive for Clostridium difficile had been tested outside the hospital or within the first 72 hours of hospitalization, providing new insight on how settings outside of the hospital play a key role in the onset and possible transmission of the disease, a new study published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings reveals. The study provides new insight into the contagious ...

Not All Parasites are Detrimental to Human Body

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Parasites in our intestines, including tapeworms, hookworms and a protist called Blastocystis, can provide a number of health benefits, a new study suggested, adding that the time has come for humans to change their views on organisms that live off the human body. To prove the point, paper co-author Julius Luke even ingested three developmental stages of a large species of tapeworm called emDiphyllobothrium latum/em. After more than a year with the tapeworms, ...

Impulsiveness in Kids Linked With Brain Connectivity

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Researchers at University of Murcia in Spain have found a link between impulsiveness and brain connectivity among kids, stating that higher the level of impulsiveness, then greater is the alteration of brain connections. The team, which studied the changes in the brain that are associated with impulsiveness, said that these patterns can serve as an indicator for predicting the risk of behavioural problems. Luis J. Fuentes, the main author of the study, ...

Oregano and Rosemary Show Potential in Development of Future Prescription Anti-Diabetic Medications

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Researchers have found that oregano and rosemary herbs can be used in developing effective prescription anti-diabetic medications, adding that the way the herbs are grown does make a difference, a new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia and colleagues point out that in 2012, type-2 diabetes affected more than 8 percent of Americans and cost the country (Dollar) 175 billion. Some people can manage the disease with exercise ...

Bacteria That can Solve Weight Gain Problem Identified

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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have discovered bacteria that can produce a therapeutic compound in the gut which provides a number of benefits, including preventing weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects. Sean Davies, Ph.D., said that although it's hard to speculate from mouse to human but essentially, they have prevented most of the negative consequences of obesity in mice, even though they're eating a high-fat diet. He further ...

High Salt Intake Doubles Risk of Heart Disease Among Diabetics

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Type 2 diabetes patients who consume high levels of salt in their diet have double the risk of developing heart disease, a new study reveals. Diabetes occurs when there is too much sugar in the bloodstream. People develop Type 2 diabetes when their bodies become resistant to the hormone insulin, which carries sugar from the blood to cells. First author, Chika Horikawa, from the University of Niigata Prefecture in Niigata, Japan, said that their findings ...

FDA Accredits New Combination Painkillers Designed to Discourage Abuse

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accredited a latest combination pain pill from the maker of OxyContin that is designed to discourage abuse by painkiller addicts. Purdue Pharma's new drug Targiniq ER is an extended release tablet that blends oxycodone - the active ingredient in OxyContin - with the drug naloxone. FDA regulators accredited the drug for daily, round-the-clock pain that does not react to other medications. ...