Archive: 21/11/2013
HIV and parenting needs to be discussed, new study finds
A team from Royal Holloway University and St. Mary's Hospital, London, interviewed young people aged 18-23 who had transmitted HIV from their mothers – known as 'perinatally acquired HIV' (PAH). Previously most of these ...
Nov 21, 2013
Attractants prevent nerve cell migration
A vision is to implant nerve precursor cells in the diseased brains of patients with Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, whereby these cells are to assume the function of the cells that have died off. However, the implanted ...
Nov 21, 2013
How to avoid turkey bowl injuries this Thanksgiving
Every year around this time, Loyola University Medical Center Sports Medicine surgeon Dr. Pietro Tonino sees a spike in sprains, contusions, broken bones and other injuries suffered in Thanksgiving pickup football games.
Nov 21, 2013
Nurses battle fatigue in tide of Philippine typhoon births
Kyrie Boniface is only a few hours old and seven weeks early, born before dawn in an under-equipped and over-crowded hospital in the typhoon-ravaged Philippine city of Tacloban.
Nov 21, 2013
US health care lottery: luck of the draw in Virginia
Mossamat Jhumu is tickled pink, as she has just won the lottery in Virginia. However, the prize is not money or merchandise but free health care.
Nov 21, 2013