Resistance to azithromycin in syphilis spreads across cities
A study in four cities finds at least 10 percent of syphilis samples carry a strain resistant to azithromycin, with higher levels in Dublin and among gay or bisexual men. Experts urge penicillin or alternative drugs and follow up tests to ensure cure, as resistance could undermine outbreak control and require revised treatment guidance.
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Powell advises early prostate cancer detection on PBS interview
Powell recounts traveling 2,900 miles on diplomatic business and notes his successful prostate cancer surgery as a warning to men. He stresses early detection, greater screening for African Americans, and that prostate cancer can affect all men, sharing his PSA tests, biopsies, and decision for surgery at Walter Reed.
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Global AIDS drug delivery needs more health workers
A Gre Institute of Medicine study urges international action to strengthen health systems and train personnel to deliver affordable anti AIDS therapies in Africa and Asia. It notes costs cuts and a $5 billion funding boost, but insists that a shortage of qualified health workers is the major barrier to expanding treatment and prevention globally.
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Report: Mentally ill youths in detention centers
Washington a House committee report finds thousands of youths with mental illness are held in juvenile detention centers awaiting community mental health services. Centers lack treatment capacity and many detained youths have not been charged with a crime, the Democratic staff of the Government Reform Committee says. The study, requested by Rep Henry Waxman and Sen Susan Collins, notes two thirds of facilities hold youths waiting for treatment and urges Congress to improve access to care.
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New findings explain brain cell vulnerability after stroke
You Ming Lu and team at the University of Calgary identify a calcium channel in hippocampal neurons as the key pathway that makes some brain cells prone to oxygen deprivation damage after stroke. The work could inform drugs to protect vulnerable cells in ALS as well, tying cell death to a shared membrane receptor channel.
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University of Calgary
Lou Gerhig
Stroke causes and death toll in the United States
The passage notes receptors linked to neuron death during stroke and failed drugs that block both vulnerable and nonvulnerable brain cell channels. It states clots and blockages cause most strokes, with strokes ranking third in deaths and disability, affecting over 60 000 people annually.
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