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IAS Conference Begins, Report Says Economic Crisis Forcing Africans Living With HIV/AIDS Off Life-Saving Medications
At a news conference opening the 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention on Sunday in Cape Town, South Africa, Julio Montaner, president of the International AIDS Society, expressed disappointment that the "G8 ignored the HIV-AIDS issue at its annual summit this month," which was "just four years after pledging at the 2005 Gleneagles [G8] summit to fight for universal access to AIDS treatment by 2010," the Globe and Mail reports. "The silence of the G8 leaders is not just pathetic, it is criminal," Montaner said. The Global and Mail writes, "Cutting back on HIV-AIDS treatment programs during the recession will mean billions or even trillions of dollars in additional costs over the long term, especially because of growing scientific evidence that anti-retroviral medicine for AIDS patients can be crucial in preventing the transmission of the AIDS virus, Dr. Montaner said" (York, 7/20).
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Tighter Controls On Cold And Flu Remedies Help Fight Against Class A Drugs
Cold and flu remedies containing pseudoephedrine and ephedrine will remain as pharmacy (P) medicines after tighter controls were found to minimise the misuse of these ingredients in the illegal manufacture of methylamphetamine (crystal meth).
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Seniors Find Medicare Part D Too Complicated To Identify Lowest-Cost Plan
In the face of rising health care costs, a new study has found that older adults were less likely to identify the plan that minimized their total annual cost and were likely to mistakenly think they had chosen the lowest-cost plan. The study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, is currently available online, and will be published in the August 2009 issue of Health Services Research.
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High Blood Pressure May Be Programmed In The Womb

A scientific study has found further evidence that high blood pressure in adulthood is pre-programmed in the womb. Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Southampton who carried out tests of 278 elderly people found those with high levels of aldosterone in their blood - a hormone which increases blood pressure - also had a low birth weight. High blood pressure and low birth weight have previously been linked to high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the bloodstream, but this is the first study to look specifically at levels of aldosterone. The findings suggest that levels of cortisol and aldosterone are closely linked, with production of both likely to be controlled by the same hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system. The researchers believe the results suggest that early conditions in the womb which retard fetal growth also program the level of aldosterone production by the HPA system. Aldosterone and its role in heart disease is the focus of a number of studies at the MRC Cardiovascular Research Group at Glasgow. Professor John Connell, a senior researcher and Professor of Endocrinology at the British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, who leads the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cardiovascular Research Group, said: "This study tells us that aldosterone is regulated by long-term factors that operate throughout the lifespan; it is an important mechanism for regulation of high blood pressure and may explain why some are more pre-disposed to it than others. This data also highlights aldosterone as a therapeutic target in treating high blood pressure." The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and the Medical Research Council and is published in the June edition of the journal "Hypertension". Nexxus, Scotland


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