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President Approves Birth Control Without a Co-Pay

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  Gay men more likely to have cancer; Does HIV play a role?

  CBS) Cancer is always bad news, but a new study suggests homosexuals may struggle more than the rest. Researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health found that gay men were 1.9 times more likely to report a cancer diagnosis than their straight counterparts. And lesbian and bisexual female cancer survivors were twice as likely to report fair or poor health compared to straight women. That comes from analysis of more than 120,000 people in a California health survey. Read ahead

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  Gay men more likely to have cancer; Does HIV play a role?

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      Citizen News Service (CNS)

      The call for a better, integrated approach to HIV and tuberculosis (TB) care has been getting louder worldwide in the past years. Equally, in terms of advocacy integration of the two diseases is gradually growing. People living with HIV speaking up on TB increasingly help put tuberculosis higher on the agenda. … Read ahead

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      Researchers Identify FDA Approved Drugs That May Fight HIV

      The two drugs, decitabine and gemcitabine — both FDA approved and currently used in pre-cancer and cancer therapy — were found to eliminate HIV infection in the mouse model by causing the virus to mutate itself to death — an outcome researchers dubbed "lethal mutagenesis." This is a landmark finding in HIV research because it is the first time this novel approach has been used to attack the deadly virus without causing toxic side effects. Because decitabine and gemcitabine are already FDA approved, researchers believe that if their research is effective in large animal models, it will be much easier to expedite the development of the drugs for human use. The study is a collaboration between molecular virologists Louis Mansky, Ph.D., and Christine Clouser, Ph.D., of the Institute for Molecular Virology and School of Dentistry, as well as medicinal chemist Steven Patterson, Ph.D., from the Center for Drug Design. The findings were recently published online in the … Read ahead

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      3 Routes Detailed for How HIV Arises in Male Genital Tracts

      More than three-quarters of new HIV infections worldwide are acquired through sexual contact, nearly all of which involve at least one male. As researchers have been uncovering a growing number of differences between the semen-based virus and blood-borne populations—and the number of … Read ahead

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      US Government Holds Patent For Medical Marijuana, Hypocrisy

      The patent claims that “Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.” … Read ahead

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      Snail Venom Inspires Powerful Pain Reliever

      Snail venom in a pill could offer powerful relief for people who suffer from severe and chronic pain. It may seem an unlikely source of pharmaceutical inspiration, but the chemicals that some snails produce have potent effects on the human nervous system. This makes them promising sources of drugs that could dull the pain of cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, HIV… Read ahead

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      HIV cases double among the over-50s

      Research published last week at the International Aids conference in Vienna by the UK’s Health Protection Agency shows that HIV rates are increasing among people of middle age. The numbers being diagnosed each year more than doubled between 2000 and 2007. The actual figures may look small – 299 new diagnoses in 2000 and 710 in 2007 – but it is the trend that worries the experts. It’s the same in the United States; the proportion of people over 50 among the newly diagnosed has risen from 17% in 2001 to 29% now. There are two distinct groups of people within the UK figures. About half have had HIV for years without knowing it, but the other half acquired it only recently. Some of those who have had it for years will have had no idea until they started to get sick. Unfortunately, some of them arrive when their immune system has been so eroded that they have full-blown Aids. The prognosis for them is not so good. Others will not have wanted to go for a test, even though they might know their sexual behaviour puts them at risk. This is unfortunate, because modern antiretroviral drugs that suppress the virus allow people to live long and healthy lives and their own infectivity drops to near zero, so their partners are safer. But there seems little doubt that changing sexual behaviour among the over-50s is also a factor in these rising HIV rates. “We are seeing a lot more partner changes than in the past,” said Dr Valerie Delpech of the Health Protection Agency. “There is a greater rate of divorces and new relationships.” The 50-plus divorcee does not necessarily think of protecting him or herself from HIV when launching into a new relationship, perhaps after years of marriage. In the past, they may not have thought … Read ahead

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      More reason than ever to get HIV tested

      Tonya Rasberry was married with three small children when her husband suddenly fell ill and landed in the hospital after a stroke. Doctors ran a series of screening tests for the 32-year-old, including for HIV. His tests came back positive. He had full-blown AIDS. Rasberry was tested immediately. The results came back days before her 29th birthday: She was HIV positive. … Read ahead

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      HIV in Poor U.S. Areas Rival Those of Developing Nations

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