...than seven percent of all HIV cases in the U.S. in 2009 but made up more than a quarter - 25.7 percent - of new HIV infections in 2010. With 12,200 new infections in that age group, that means "every month 1,000 youth are becoming infected...
...too old to donate. Doctors look at the health of the organ, not the age of the donor. Donors are disqualified for HIV infection, active cancer and systemic infections, according to HHS. Donors can also indicate their desire on their driver's...
...unfortunately -- our diversity includes racial and ethnic groups prone to abuse their own health, including high rates of HIV infections from risky sex, drug and alcohol abuse, tobacco use, homicide, gang-related violence, incarceration for criminal...
...the solution to their medical bills? How many people have unprotected sex, risking sexually transmitted diseases, HIV infection and pregnancy, expecting others to pay the bill for medicines and abortions? How many people won't spend a few...
...Scotland --- Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection -- and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news. Mr. Mackie...
...but little else has proven effective for the men most affected by the epidemic. Last week, new figures showed HIV infections still rising in gay and bisexual men, with about 53 percent of new cases in that group. Meanwhile, HIV rates among...
...S. taxpayers will be made to send to other parts of the world for AIDS, while in the United States the number of HIV infections has been underestimated. While trying to save the rest of the world, our own people are suffering daily. First...
...black divorce, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, murder and HIV infection by 2012, and increasing the adoption of black foster...preached safe behaviors to 3,000 teenagers to prevent HIV infection. "That wouldn't have happened five years ago...
...Clinical Ligand Assay Society. Dr. Peiper, whose research focuses on chemokine receptors, which play a role in HIV infection, inflammatory disease and metastasis of many malignancies including breast cancer, will receive the award May 18...
...health agency has been able to serve only 46 percent of those eligible for newborn home visits. - Reducing the rate of HIV infection in the state will require the state to work with other organizations, including working to fight the stigma associated...
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