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SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla., March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bankers Healthcare Group, a leading provider of financing solutions to healthcare professionals, announced their sponsorship of the 25(th) annual AIDS Walk Miami benefiting those who have been infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Funds raised from the event will go to Care Resource, South Florida's oldest and largest HIV/AIDS community organization serving 15,000 South Floridians suffering with the disease. (Logo:...

Every month 1,000 young people are infected with HIV and over 73,700 young people are currently living with HIV across the country. On April 10, young people across the country will host a variety of activities to foster awareness and spur action to invest and engage young people impacted by HIV and AIDS. Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 26, 2013 Despite the recent scientific progress in getting closer to cure for AIDS, the HIV and AIDS epidemic is not over. Today’s young people are the...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online US health officials are reporting that this year’s flu season is winding down, but in its wake, it has resulted in more than 100 deaths among children – most of whom had not been vaccinated against the illness. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics, influenza has claimed the lives of 105 youngsters so far this season. That’s more than triple the number of children who died during last...

This year's unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are creating new ways to predict where an outbreak could emerge. "Using surveillance of influenza cases in humans and birds, we've come up with a technique to predict sites where these viruses could mix and generate a future pandemic," said lead author Trevon Fuller, a UCLA...

Replikins Synthetic Vaccines Against Antibiotic-Resistant Gonococcus, Tuberculosis, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Klebsiella KPC, and Cl. Difficile OTTAWA, Ontario, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of lethal bacteria are of increasing concern worldwide because they are becoming resistant to many or all of the antibiotics previously effective against them (1). Bioradar UK Ltd. announced today in Ottawa, Canada that it has discovered that the concentration of genomic Replikins...

New Research Makes Case for Government Policymakers to Reconsider Face Masks and Other Infection Source Control Measures to Stem Virus and Flu Outbreaks Among General Public HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crosstex International, a subsidiary of Cantel Medical Corp. (NYSE: CMN), and Prestige Ameritech, the only two major U.S.-based medical mask manufacturers have joined forces to bring attention to a glaring void in public health research and policy - that, if...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The deadly new virus that has caused 14 people to fall ill and resulted in eight fatalities to date, has yet to infect anyone in the US. But that hasn’t stopped the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from issuing a preemptive warning to state and local health officials. While most cases of the novel coronavirus have been linked to the Middle East, three recently-confirmed cases (including one death) in the UK...

A simple new method better assesses the risks posed by emerging zoonotic viruses (those transmissible from animals to humans), according to a study published in PLOS Medicine this week. Dr. Simon Cauchemez and colleagues from Imperial College London in the UK and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US show that the new tool can produce transmissibility estimates for swine flu (the H3N2v-M virus), allowing researchers to better evaluate the possible pandemic threat posed by...

BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During tonight's Clinton Foundation Millennium Network event featuring a dialogue with President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Hollywood actor Ed Norton, protesters from the human rights organization INTACTION disrupted the show wearing bloodstained white suits to protest the exploitative and racist health policies involving the circumcision of African men. The concept of HIV prevention through circumcision began with...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The sequester, with its devastating cuts to virtually every line item in the federal budget, is now forcing our nation to take a troubling step backward in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The cuts mean fewer chances for people to learn their HIV status, get the medical care they need to stay healthy, and avoid passing the virus on to others. It is now incumbent upon Congress to restore these funds as quickly as possible to minimize...