Notícias

05-09-2012 10:37

Abortions May Increase Risk for Subsequent Birth Problems

August 30, 2012 — Women who have had 3 or more abortions have a higher risk for some adverse birth outcomes, such as delivering a baby prematurely or with a low birth weight, according to results from a new study conducted in Finland. Reija Klemetti, PhD, from the National Institute for Health...

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28-08-2012 11:37

Rape Trauma as Barrier to Pregnancy' Myth Dates Back Centuries

By Sharon Begley and Susan Heavey (Reuters) - The long-discredited notion that rape victims cannot become pregnant - a claim that pushed Republicans to repudiate one of their own U.S. Senate candidates on Monday - dates back centuries to when human reproduction was hardly understood. But the...

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28-08-2012 11:34

Prostate Cancer Survival Improved After PSA Introduced in US

August 23, 2012 — Overall survival from metastatic prostate cancer has significantly improved since routine screening with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test was introduced in the United States around 1990, concludes a new analysis. The finding was published online in the Journal of...

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07-08-2012 12:00

CDC: Little Change in Risky Teen Sex

July 27, 2012 — Progress in getting teens to have safer sex largely has stalled over the last decade, a new CDC study suggests. Nearly half of high school students (47%) have had sex, according to the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). That's almost the same percentage reported in the...

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07-08-2012 11:51

Antiestrogen Combination Improves Breast Cancer Survival

August 2, 2012 — The combination of anastrozole (Arimidex, AstraZeneca) plus fulvestrant (Faslodex) is better than anastrozole alone for delaying disease progression and improving survival in postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. The data are published in...

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07-08-2012 11:50

Outreach Helps Reengage Out-of-Care HIV Patients in Care

August 1, 2012 (Washington, DC) — Tens of thousands of people diagnosed with HIV and ever linked to care in New York City were not retained in care in 2010. These out-of-care (OOC) people living with HIV (PLWH) are at risk for HIV-related morbidity and mortality, as well as of transmitting the...

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07-08-2012 11:45

Sexual, Urological Disorders Linked to Waist Size

August 2, 2012 — For the first time in a comprehensive way, researchers have associated obesity in men, particularly large waist circumference (WC), with sexual and urologic dysfunction, in addition to metabolic effects. The results of the new study are published in the August issue of the...

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23-07-2012 19:39

HIV Treatment Should Begin as Early as Possible

uly 22, 2012 (Washington, DC) — New recommendations for antiretroviral therapy (ART), issued here on opening day of AIDS 2012: XIX International AIDS Conference, say that ART should be offered to all adult patients who are HIV-positive as soon as possible, regardless of CD4 cell count. The...

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23-07-2012 19:37

HIV-2 Dual Infection Helps Slow HIV-1 Progression

July 20, 2012 — When there is dual infection with HIV-2, HIV-1 is inhibited and shows slower progression compared with infection with HIV-1 alone, according to study of West African patients that spanned approximately 20 years. Joakim Esbjörnsson, PhD, from the Department of Experimental...

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05-07-2012 10:25

Appendectomies No Threat to Fertility, Study Says

By Frederik Joelving NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jun 28 - Getting an appendectomy doesn't seem to hurt a woman's chance of having babies, according to a new study that contradicts long-held beliefs among fertility experts. In fact, UK researchers found women who'd had their appendix removed...

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