The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidelines focusing on treatment, prevention, and infant feeding in the context of HIV infection, based on the most recent scientific evidence. The key recommendations are published today, and the full guidelines are anticipated to be released in early 2010. The antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines were first published in 2002, summarized and simplified in 2003, and updated in 2006.
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Cancer News
Folic acid and vitamin B supplementation was associated with an increase in cancer incidence, cancer mortality, and all-cause mortality in a new analysis with long-term follow-up of data from 2 trials conducted in Norway, where there is no folic acid fortification of foods.
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This news from heartwire reveals that the use of low-dose aspirin in the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in healthy individuals with asymptomatic atherosclerosis is currently not warranted, according to the lead researcher of a large "real-world" study presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2009 Congress.
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In an article published online August 19 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, researchers suggest that controlling cardiovascular risk factors in midlife may prevent dementia later on.
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Corticosteroids may help relieve sore throat pain when added to antibiotics in patients with severe or exudative sore throat, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis reported in the August 7 Online First issue of the BMJ.
"A lower salt intake, in the long-term, could play an important role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, renal disease and osteoporosis," lead author Feng J. He, PhD, from St. George's, University of London, United Kingdom, said in a news release. "Our study provides further support for the current public health recommendations to reduce salt intake to less than 6 grams per day."
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Cancer News
A study from Finland has shown that men who exercised for at least 30 minutes a day at moderate to high intensity halved their risk of dying prematurely from cancer, mainly gastrointestinal and lung cancer.
