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Worried about what to do with fat you've had liposuctioned from pudgy areas? Researchers have turned it into stem cells in the lab, but here's a more immediate use: Fat liposuctioned from other parts of the body can safely be used to increase a woman's breast size, according to study findings presented this week at the Plastic Surgery 2009 meeting in Seattle.
Worried about what to do with fat you've had liposuctioned from pudgy areas? Researchers have turned it into stem cells in the lab, but here's a more immediate use: Fat liposuctioned from other parts of the body can safely be used to increase a woman's breast size, according to study findings presented this week at the Plastic Surgery 2009 meeting in Seattle.
President Barack Obama announced on Friday that a 22-year-old ban on allowing people infected with with the AIDS virus into the United States will be lifted on Monday. Obama made the announcement in signing an extension of the the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Act, which provides for education, prevention and treatment programs for U.
Men with larger foreskins are more likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that helps explain why circumcision can protect men. The study of 965 men in Uganda, all without AIDS at the start, showed those with larger foreskins were more likely to become infected.
ffective policy * Developing world faces double burden of poor, rich risks * More people die of being overweight than underweight By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Tackling just five health factors could prevent millions of premature deaths and increase global life expectancy by almost 5 years, the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Brief electric shocks may help the body better respond to certain kinds of experimental AIDS vaccines, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. They used a device that looks like a handgun to inject vaccine along with three brief electrical pulses to open up cell membranes so that the vaccine can get inside.
African leaders should be more serious about protecting the continent's children from AIDS and it is time for them to change state spending priorities, Nelson Mandela's wife Graca Machel said on Thursday.
U.S. vaccine advisers on Wednesday declined to press for the use of Merck & Co's Gardasil in boys and men, opting instead for "permissive" use. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted almost unanimously to simply advise doctors they were free to recommend the vaccine for boys.
AIDS researchers want to expand their study of a rare group of HIV-infected people, whose immune systems naturally and mysteriously prevent the virus thriving in their bodies. Studies of these "elite controllers," which aim to find an AIDS vaccine, have so far concentrated on North America.
Since 2007, when free vaccination against HPV for young women became available, Australia has seen a rapid decline in new cases of genital warts, researchers say. HPV, or human papillomavirus, causes genital warts and cervical cancer.
A teenage girl's weight, or perception of her weight, may affect her odds of risky sexual behavior, a new study suggests. The study, of nearly 7,200 U.S. high school girls, found that in general, sexually active girls who were underweight were less likely than their normal-weight peers to use condoms.
Doctors who surprised the world of AIDS research with a study showing a vaccine prevented some HIV infections released details of their findings on Tuesday and said careful review showed they held up. Full details of the study, which showed the experimental vaccine prevented nearly one-third of infections among 16,000 ordinary Thai volunteers, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The global financial crisis and a loss of interest in the AIDS epidemic may translate into less money in coming years for research, treatment and prevention of the virus, HIV experts said on Monday. They are especially concerned because a trial in Thailand has just shown it may be possible to make a vaccine to prevent AIDS - the first hint of success in the 25 years since the pandemic began.
Smoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading HIV, a Canadian study published on Monday says, although researchers acknowledge they are not sure about the exact link. The researchers, who studied the relationship between drug use and HIV in Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside, one of Canada's most drug infested neighborhoods, said the findings show the need for new efforts, such as opening "safe inhalation rooms", to help drug addicts.
Vaccinating boys against the virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts does not appear to be cost-effective, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. Assuming all girls get the shot, adding boys to a national vaccination program may not be worth the expense, they said.
The popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra is associated with a number of side effects, but data on long-term harms are still lacking, according to a review of 49 published studies. In the medical journal Urology, Dr. Alexander Tsertsvadze, from Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues report that men who took Viagra, also known as sildenafil, were 56 percent more likely than those given a placebo to experience any side effect.
Pfizer Inc's HIV drug Selzentry appears to be safe for wider use in certain patients with the disease who have not yet begun taking any medications, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in a document released on Tuesday.
Hot flashes can range from irritating to debilitating, but they may also be a sign of something worse: As women go through menopause, hot flashes may signal a higher risk of heart disease and heart attacks, according to new data presented Friday at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego.
The risk for major depression more than doubles while women are going through menopause and afterward, according to research presented this week at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego. Recent studies have suggested that the risk for depressive symptoms in women increases in midlife, around the time of menopause, perhaps because of the effects of reduced estrogen on the mind, and the stress of hot flashes and other symptoms.
rea CVS stores later this year WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Female Health Co said the new version of its female condom is now available to state health agencies and nonprofit organizations, with retail sales later this year through certain CVS pharmacies.
The teenage girl who died shortly after being immunised against cervical cancer was killed by a malignant chest tumour and not by a reaction to the vaccine manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, an inquest heard on Thursday. Natalie Morton, 14, fell ill on Monday after being vaccinated at her school under a national immunisation programme against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV).
Consequences of obesity in women may extend years into their daughters' lives, study findings hint. The researchers found that daughters of obese mothers, versus normal- or under-weight mothers, were about three times more likely to start menstruating before their 12th birthday.
Young people in the Asia Pacific region need to get over taboos on talking about sex, with a survey showing most don't know much about contraception while a third do not discuss it with their partner. The survey of more than...
More than half of the 9.5 million people who need AIDS drugs cannot get them and 33 million people across the world are still infected with the virus that causes it, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Access to drugs, counselling and testing for AIDS has increased, but there were still 2.
A teenage British girl died after receiving a cervical cancer vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, health officials said on Monday. The British-based drugmaker said the cause of death was as yet unknown, and a health official said on Tuesday that the vaccine, Cervarix, probably did not cause the death.
More than 25 years into the AIDS pandemic, scientists finally have a vaccine that protects some people -- but instead of celebrating, they are going back to the drawing board. The vaccine, a combination of two older vaccines, only lowered the infection rate by about a third after three years among 16,000 ordinary Thai volunteers.
An experimental AIDS vaccine that appears to be the first to protect people was mired for years in controversy, and credit for its success must go to Thailand where the trial was conducted, experts said. The trial was criticised five years ago by 22 prominent U.
An experimental AIDS vaccine made from two older versions has made major progress in finding an effective way to combat the illness, researchers said on Thursday. But its application may be limited and a commercial vaccine may require more time.
Strong cultural beliefs and limited awareness may lead mothers from certain ethnic groups to choose not to have their daughters vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus responsible for most cases of cervical cancer, according to a study conducted in the UK.
Men with a rare disorder in which they carry extra female genes can still have children if they undergo a surgical procedure for collecting their sperm, according to a new study. Men with Klinefelter's syndrome carry an extra copy of the X chromosome; normally men have one each of the X and Y chromosomes, and women have two X chromosomes.
