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Smokers with Mental Disorders, Drug and Alcohol Problems Need Doctors’ Help to Quit

By Guest PostAugust 31, 2011Healthalcohol, alcohol use, cigarette smoking, drug, habit, health burden of tobacco, hiv, human immunodeficiency virus, illegal drug use, mental disorders, michael ong, motor vehicle injuries, nicotine, patients, smokers, suicides and murders, tobacco related health care costs, toolbox, united states

Smokers who also have alcohol, drug and mental disorders would benefit greatly from smoking-cessation counseling from their primary care physicians and would be five times more successful at kicking the habit, a study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found.

Smokers with these co-morbid conditions make up about 40 percent of the smoking population, have a more difficult time quitting and represent a significant burden on the health care system. If their primary care physicians could help them to quit smoking, it would not only improve their health of patients but would reduce tobacco-related health care costs, said Dr. Michael Ong, an assistant professor of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher with UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. (more…)

Study of HIV Increase in Pakistan Could Benefit Other Research

By Guest PostAugust 26, 2011General, Healthafghanistan, aga khan university, behavioral data, blood samples, disease, dna sequences, dow university of health sciences, genetic evidence, hiv, hiv epidemic in pakistan, hiv positive groups, hiv strains, karachi, marco salemi, middle east, north africa, Pakistan, virus, willi mcfarland

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rates of HIV have increased in Pakistan’s general population, as the virus has spread beyond at-risk groups to women and their children, according to an international team of researchers, including a University of Florida scientist.

The researchers raise concern that the transmission across subgroups into Pakistan’s general population may serve as indication that the virus may be spreading into populations within neighboring Afghanistan. The team’s epidemiological findings were published in July in the journal PLoS One. (more…)

Older Lesbians, Gays Have Higher Rates of Chronic Disease, Mental Distress, Isolation

By Guest PostMarch 30, 2011Healthaids, bisexual, california, california lesbians, chronic conditions, chronic health conditions, cycles of data, diabetes, epidemiology, gay, good health, heterosexual population, heterosexual women, hiv, hypertension, lesbian, lgb, life threatening health conditions, physical disability, poor mental health, steven wallace, susan cochran, ucla

*California’s aging LGB population is set to double in next 20 years*

Members of California’s aging lesbian, gay and bisexual population are more likely to suffer from certain chronic conditions, even as they wrestle with the challenges of living alone in far higher numbers than the heterosexual population, according to new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Half of all gay and bisexual adult men in California between the ages of 50 and 70 are living alone, compared with 13.4 percent of heterosexual men in the same age group. And although older California lesbians and bisexual women are more likely to live with a partner or a family member than their male counterparts, more than one in four live alone, compared with one in five heterosexual women. (more…)

Computerizing Critical Information: GTRI Supports Health Resources Information Systems in Kenya and Zimbabwe

By Guest PostFebruary 13, 20111 commentHealth, Technologyafrican nations, aids, automate, christopher skeels, computer database, emory university, george bush, gtri, health care, health planning, hiv, human resource information systems, human resource management, judith wold, Kenya, kenya health work force project, khwfp, lillian carter center, malaria, martha rogers, nursing council, robert delano, software, software evaluation protocol, tuberculosis, zimbabwe

Researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are helping to automate human resource information systems for health care professionals in two African nations, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

In collaboration with Emory University’s Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and the Task Force for Global Health, GTRI is evaluating and advising on computer systems developed to provide information for better human resource management, policy development and health planning. (more…)

Research Suggests HIV Causes Rapid Aging in Key Infection-fighting Cells

By Guest PostJanuary 29, 20111 commentHealthhiv, hiv positive people, infected adults, infection, rapid aging

In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, being infected with the virus that causes the disease was considered a virtual death sentence. But with the development of antiretroviral therapy, many with HIV are now living much longer. In fact, it is estimated that by 2015, about half of all HIV-positive individuals will be older than 50. (more…)

Some Vitamin Supplements Increase Presence of the HIV Virus in Breast Milk

By Guest PostAugust 27, 2010Healthbeta-carotene, breast milk, breastfeed, eduardo villamor, epidemiologist, hiv, hiv-infected, hiv-positive, mother-to-child transmission, pregnant, sub-saharan africa, vitamin A, women

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk—thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest.

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Russia and AIDS: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

By PravdaAugust 8, 20104 commentsGeneral, Healthaids, central asia, cis, eastern europe, epidemic, female sexual function, hiv, hiv-infected russians, marina semenchenko, nargis azizova, ngo, pravda, russia, russian federation, sex workers, sexually transmitted infections, tb, timothy bancroft-hinchey, unaids

Women’s rights are high on the international agenda as the world moves towards a more egalitarian model, finally creating and respecting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

As regards AIDS, what is the situation involving women in particular and the population in general, in the Russian Federation, CIS countries and in the international community?

PRAVDA.Ru presents its exclusive interview*.

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Peking University People’s Hospital Partners with IBM to Build China’s First Evidence-Based Patient Centric Care System

By Guest PostJuly 15, 20102 commentsTechnologyChina, chinese, epc3, evidence-based patient centric care, first-of-a-kind, healthcare, her, hiv, ibm, longitudinal, peking university people’s hospital, program, scripps research institute, thomas li

BEIJING – 15 Jul 2010: IBM and Peking University People’s Hospital (People’s Hospital) have built an evidence-based patient centric care (ePC3) system to enable cooperation and resource sharing among medical services providers for improved patient care.

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