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Most States Bar Routine HIV Tests

Wednesday 10 October 2007 @ 10:10 am

Font Size E-mail Print Share More than 30 states have laws barring doctors from heeding a call by U.S. health officials to routinely test Americans for the AIDS virus, researchers report. And states don’t seem to be in any rush to change that.

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Majority Of States Bar Routine HIV Tests

Wednesday 10 October 2007 @ 8:10 am

- 9:00 am ET (Atlanta, Georgia) More than 30 states have laws barring doctors from heeding a call by U.S. health officials to routinely test Americans for the AIDS virus, researchers report. And states don’t seem to be in any rush to change that.

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Microvascular System Aids Growing Tissue

Wednesday 10 October 2007 @ 3:10 am

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Uganda opens factory to manufacture generic AIDS drug

Wednesday 10 October 2007 @ 2:10 am

Uganda on Monday opened a $38-million (

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Philadelphia Inquirer Examines Merck’s Failed International HIV Vaccine Trial

Tuesday 9 October 2007 @ 8:10 pm

International HIV Vaccine Trial Merck’s decision last month to halt its international HIV vaccine trial was not a ‘definitive blow’ to HIV vaccine research and development, but it created questions about whether research was ‘careening down the wrong

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Drug combo also helps stop brain damage caused by HIV

Tuesday 9 October 2007 @ 8:10 pm

A new study has found that a combination of drugs commonly used to treat infections caused by HIV also stops brain damage caused by the virus.For the study, Swedish researchers examined 53 men and women with an average age of 38.

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Parkinson’s Disease Patients’ Relatives Have Raised Risk Of Developing Cognitive Impairment Or Dementia

Tuesday 9 October 2007 @ 5:10 pm

A relative of a patient who has Parkinson’s disease has a higher risk of developing dementia or cognitive impairment, compared to somebody who has no relative with the disease, says an article in Archives of Neurology (JAMA/Archives), October issue.

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Drug cocktail stops brain damage caused by HIV

Tuesday 9 October 2007 @ 11:10 am

A combination of drugs widely used to treat infections caused by HIV appears to stop brain damage caused by the virus as well, according to a study published in the October 9, 2007, issue of Neurology

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