http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A small French study of 14 HIV patients who have remained healthy for years after stopping drug treatment offers fresh evidence that early medical intervention may lead to a "functional cure" for AIDS, researchers said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-french-patients-hiv-bay-drugs.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:09:00 EST news282499733 As Kenyan citizens negotiated the tensions following the March 4 nationwide elections, memories of the violence that followed the December 2007 vote weighed heavily for many reasons. Among those in any nation with an HIV epidemic, argue authors of a new paper in AIDS Reviews, should be the long-term damage that political conflict can do to public health by disrupting treatment and thereby promoting resistance to antiretroviral drugs and treatment failure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-political-strife-undermines-hiv-treatment.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:49:31 EST news282322105 Two patients freed from severe to disabling effects of dystonia through deep brain stimulation therapy continued to have symptom relief for months after their devices accidentally were fully or partly turned off, according to a report published online Feb. 11 in the journal Movement Disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dystonia-cases-deep-brain-therapy.html Neuroscience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:03:19 EST news279910984 U.S. abortions fell 5 percent during the Great Recession in the biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade, according to government figures released Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-abortions-biggest-decade.html Health Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:10:01 EST news272726617 For critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, daily sedation interruption did not reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation or appear to offer any benefit to patients, and may have increased both sedation and analgesic use and nurse workload, according to a study appearing in JAMA. The study is being published early online to coincide with its presentation at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-daily-sedation-critically-ill-patients.html Other Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:20:01 EST news269675759 Recent studies have linked caffeine consumption to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, and a new University of Illinois study may be able to explain how this happens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-caffeine-block-inflammation-linked-mild.html Neuroscience Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:21:20 EST news269014866 Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-paths-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:36:09 EST news262542964 Women with irregular heart rhythm (known as atrial fibrillation) have a moderately increased risk of stroke compared with men, suggesting that female sex should be considered when making decisions about anti-clotting treatment, finds a study published on BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-women-irregular-heart-rhythm-higher.html Cardiology Thu, 31 May 2012 18:30:12 EST news257706022