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CDC Recommendations For Routine HIV Testing Largely Ignored
Despite national guidelines issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending that all Americans aged 13 to 64 be routinely tested in all healthcare settings, private, federal and state organizations have largely failed to do so.

UK Fast Food Chains Commit To Healthier Eating
The big six fast food chains seen on high streets in the UK: Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Nando's, Subway and Wimpy have promised to make changes that make it easier for people to eat healthy restaurant meals. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) wants to see more fruit, vegetables and salad on menus and for less dominance of fried food.

Open Season For Medicare Part D Enrollment
From November 15th to the end of December is "open season" for American senior citizens to sign up for another year to benefit from the federal government program known as Medicare Part D designed to help eligible older Americans pay for prescription drugs.

American Teenager Survives 4 Months Without Heart
A 14-year old American girl was kept alive for 118 days without a heart while waiting for a second heart transplant at a hospital in Florida; surgeons fitted a custom-made artificial heart after removing the first transplanted heart in July this year.

Genetic Testing For Diabetes Type 2 Still In Its Infancy
Genetic testing for type 2 diabetes is still in its infancy, said researchers who did a US study that compared risk assessment based on screening for gene variants with more traditional risk factors like weight, blood pressure and blood sugar.

Cancer Drug Avastin Raised Risk Of Blood Clots, Study
A new analysis of randomized controlled trials of the widely used new generation cancer drug bevacizumab (marketed by Roche and Genentech as Avastin) found it was linked to an increased risk of deep vein blood clots or venous thromboembolism in the legs or lungs compared with treatments that did not use it.

TB Patient Gets New Windpipe Made With Own Stem Cells
A 30-year old Columbian woman living in Spain whose airway was damaged from tuberculosis is the first person in the world to receive a new airway engineered from tissue that was grown from her own stem cells which means she is likely to have a much better quality of life because she will prob

Community Factors Predict Reconstruction After Mastectomy
According to new research published in the November issue of Archives of Surgery, women who live in wealthier communities with lower population densities and a larger proportion of college-educated individuals are more likely to have immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy. Every year in the Unites States, breast cancer affects 134 of every 100,000 women.

No Differences Found In Trauma Patient Care Among Patients Of Different Ethnicities
A study published in the November issue of Archives of Surgery finds that non-Hispanic white patients and patients from minority ethnic groups in the US receive a similar level of trauma care. Shahid Shafi, M.D., M.P.H., and Larry M. Gentilello, M.D.

Gingko Biloba Not Effective Against Alzheimer's
A randomized clinical trial involving over 3,000 elderly people in the US found that the popular herbal supplement Gingko biloba fared no better than placebo at preventing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

New Biomarkers For Brain Tumor Discovered
Researchers in the US and The Netherlands have discovered that cancer cells from a deadly type of human brain tumor called glioblastoma release tiny sacs containing proteins that traverse the brain-blood barrier and contain genetic material that could be used as biomarkers in new diagnostic tools and perhaps as new targets for treatments too.

Assisted Reproduction Linked To Higher Birth Defects
A nationwide US study found that babies conceived with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) were between 2 and 4 times more likely to be born with certain defects than babies conceived naturally.

Exercise And Sleep Reduce Women's Cancer Risk
A new US study of nearly 6,000 women found that while regular exercise appeared to reduced their risk of cancer, this benefit was likely to be lost if they did not get enough sleep.

Treatment Found For Psoriasis In Traditional Chinese Medicine
According to a study published in the November issue of Archives of Dermatology, an effective treatment for plaque-type psoriasis can be found in traditional Chinese medicine. Yin-Ku Lin, M.D.

Survey Of Beachgoers' Tanning Habits Should Help Interventions To Prevent Skin Cancer
A study published in the November issue of Archives of Dermatology seeks to determine which beachgoers would benefit from targeted interventions to reduce skin cancer risk by identifying sun-protection practices and risk profiles.

Vitamin E And C Don't Change Cancer Risk, Long Term Study
A large-scale long term study taking up to ten years and involving older American men found that Vitamin E and Vitamin C were no different to placebo in protecting against cancer.

First Ovary Transplant Woman Gives Birth
A 39-year old woman who had the world's first whole ovary transplant gave birth to a healthy daughter in a private London hospital last week after undergoing pioneering new treatment developed in the US that allowed her to receive an ovary donated by her twin sister and then conceive naturally, according to a BBC News report.

Nearly All Fast Food In The US Uses Corn
Using a carbon isotope to identify the type of feed eaten by the animals whose meat goes into hamburgers, and the oil used to cook fries, researchers were able to establish that nearly all fast food consumed in the US relies on corn agriculture.

How Obama Can Effect Health Care Reform
An editorial published in this week's Lancet is highly optimistic regarding President-elect Obama's ability to influence real change in health care policy - one of the United States' most divisive political issues.