Posted in HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, tagged Animal Model, Kaiser Family Foundation, Merck, Vaccine on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Given the lack of integrity shown in early HIV research, I’m more than a bit skeptical of HIV/AIDS vaccine research. There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibilities of developing an HIV vaccine, and the information in this abstract isn’t new, but it is one of the better academic studies in this [...]
Posted in All About Me, HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, tagged Technology on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Researchers Develop Breath-Monitoring Device To Monitor Treatment Adherence Among HIV-Positive People
According to Melker, the new device could help address the issue by providing a new way to monitor treatment adherence. Melker said that although the current version of the device works well, he hopes that the technology eventually can be used in a cellular phone. [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Multiple Sclerosis, tagged Paul Nicholas, Stem Cell Treatment on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Below is a letter from MS-activist Paul Nicholas, who recently underwent stem cell treatment in Mexico.
This is critically improtant for so many of us with chronic illnesses. Please share the information!
Dear Friends,
I left the U.S. this summer and went to Mexico for Adult Stem Cell Transplantation Therapy.
The treatment was a huge success and ended much [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Multiple Sclerosis, tagged Medical Breakthroughs, Medicine, Women on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Top 2007 Health Breakthroughs for Women
Let’s face it. We live in a time when a “Your Friends Make You Fat” story gets headlined and blogged 24-7 (no matter that it was just one study in a doctors’ journal), while the recent discovery of two (two!) genes linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) rates nary a peep.
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Posted in HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, tagged CDC, Children, Healthcare Policy, Journal of infectious Diseases, Mothers, Public Health, Women on September 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From today’s HIV/AIDS policy updates:
HIV-Positive Women Who Become Pregnant Less Likely To Develop AIDS, Die of AIDS-Related Causes, Study Says
HIV-positive women who become pregnant are less likely to develop AIDS or die of AIDS-related causes than HIV-positive women who do not become pregnant, according to a study published in the Oct. 1 issue of the [...]
Posted in Activism, HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, Human Rights, tagged Africa, HIV Prevention, Poverty, Zimbabwe on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
This abstract discusses the multiplicity of HIV Prevention barriers young girls in Zimbabwe face, and what one organization is doing to address those needs.
Group in Zimbabwe Works To Fight Poverty, Empower Girls To Reduce Spread of HIV, Reuters Reports
Posted in HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, Sex, tagged CDC, Community-Based Organizations, DEBI, FROST'D, HIV Prevention, Men who have sex with Men, MSM, New York on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
My last year working at the Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (FROST’D) in New York City was spent working on a program, financed by the Centers for Disease Control, that targeted men who have sex with men (MSM). While my personal focus in the field of HIV prevention had largely been working with [...]
Posted in HIV/AIDS, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Sex, tagged Abstience Only, Bush Administration, Condoms, HIV Prevention, Ideology, Insurance, Kaiser Family Foundation, Prison, Public Health, Sex Education, Women on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I was on a short vacation, and my regular Kaiser Family Foundation updates were packed with notable abstracts. Here are a few that touched on my personal interests.
Advocacy Group Launches Ads Urging Massachusetts Gov. Patrick To Accept Federal Abstinence-Only Sex Education Grant
Comprehensive sex education is just science y’all. Why are we afraid of our [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Multiple Sclerosis, Music, Politics, tagged Abstience Only, Bush Administration, Children, Condoms, HIV Prevention, Public Health on September 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I am staunchly against abstinence-only sex education programs. I am not against abstinence, but I am against teaching scientific hypothesis that have been proven false many times over. I am against lying to children through science, and I find the practice abhorable. Period.
If you teach a sex education class, and at the end of the [...]
Posted in Activism, Healthcare, tagged Advertising, American Cancer Society, Cancer, New York Times on August 31, 2007 | No Comments »
American Cancer Society To Devote Entire 2008 Advertising Budget to Consequences of Inadequate Health Coverage
The American Cancer Society this year plans to use its entire advertising budget of $15 million to campaign against inadequate health insurance coverage, the New York Times reports. The ad campaign is “unique, say experts in both philanthropy and advertising, in [...]
