Arquivo de artigos
18-10-2012 18:24
Contágio do vírus deve-se sobretudo ao "contacto com o sangue", diz especialista
A prostituição e a promiscuidade sexual, nos postos coloniais da África Equatorial, no princípio do século XX, foi fator determinante para o vírus do HIV se tornar uma pandemia mundial, revela um estudo...
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18-10-2012 18:22
October 15, 2012 — A new meta-analysis demonstrates that point-of-care tests (POCTs) for the diagnosis of hepatitis C (HCV) have a high level of accuracy and may help increase screening rates for this disease. These findings are published in the October 15 issue of the Annals of Internal...
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18-10-2012 18:20
October 15, 2012 — Girls who received the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine at 11 or 12 years of age were no more likely to engage in sexual behavior than girls who did not receive the vaccine, according to a retrospective cohort study of longitudinal electronic data collected from a large...
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18-10-2012 18:14
October 10, 2012 — Results of a small prospective study indicate that there is a significant increase in multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity after assisted reproduction technology (ART), suggesting that female patients with MS of childbearing age should be made aware of the risk.
The...
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18-10-2012 18:11
October 8, 2012 — Blacks with a high school education or less continue to die from HIV at much higher rates than whites of any education level, despite the emergence of treatment that has reduced overall mortality, according to a study published online October 8 in the Archives of Internal...
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18-10-2012 18:09
October 9, 2012 — A blood test that can stratify patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) as high or low risk offers hope to patients for better outcome prediction and management, according to 2 studies published online October 9 in the Lancet Oncology.
Both studies...
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18-10-2012 18:07
October 9, 2012 (Orlando, Florida) — Postmenopausal women have higher rates of vaginal atrophy in the United States than in other countries, in large part because they refuse to consider remedies such as local estrogen therapy, according to a survey presented here at the North American Menopause...
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18-10-2012 18:05
October 1, 2012 — A Baltimore HIV clinic has improved the clinical outcomes of patients across all strata of demographic and behavioral risk groups through a multilevel treatment program with supplemental funding from a federal government program, according to an article published online...
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07-09-2012 11:59
September 5, 2012 — A big question in the treatment of prostate cancer is whether to give androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) continuously, or whether there can be breaks in the treatment without detriment to the outcome.
This answer appears to depend on the specific patient...
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07-09-2012 11:58
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) Sep 04 - All girls in Europe should be immunized against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and current vaccine coverage rates are far too low, European Union health officials have announced.
In new advice about tackling the virus, the European Center for Disease...
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