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...absolutely supporting AIB coming to our neighborhood, but we want it to be an addition,” said Dr. Peter Lang, Harvard Medical School professor and longtime resident of the Porter Square neighborhood. “We don’t want it to destroy some of the things that we have...
...developing countries, screening is not that common," says Dr. Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, lead author of the study and head of the screening group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. There are small-scale cancer screening efforts underway primarily in urban areas throughout Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but they serve only a tiny slice of the population who would benefit, according to Sankaranarayanan. For example, "in India, less than one million pap smears are taken each year," he says, a fraction of the more than 200 million women who are at risk for developing cervical cancer...
...idea, first put forth by leading AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center more than a decade go, is to blitz the virus in its first days of infecting a new human host, before it can establish a beachhead and launch a full-scale AIDS attack. And so far, the strategy seems to be working. Early treatment of newly infected patients has significantly reduced the death rate from AIDS in regions of the world where antiretroviral therapies (ART) are readily available. (Read about the surge in HIV/AIDS in Washington...
...Dr. Mari Kitahata, at the University of Washington, reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that HIV-positive patients enrolled in a nine-year study reduced their risk of dying as much as 94% by the trial's end if they began ART earlier, compared with patients who deferred treatment. "Our study adds to the weight of evidence accumulating that the balance between the potential benefit in survival of initiating therapy earlier outweighs the potential deleterious effects," says Kitahata, referring to concerns over the drugs' toxicity and possible long-term side effects...
...only expert impressed with the results. "This is a very good study that at least suggests strongly that there is a benefit to starting treatment early," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But is it enough to change the current guidelines for when HIV-positive patients should start ART? "That is a question of debate now in the scientific and public-health community," he says...