CDC's July 17 report counts 2,194 AIDS diagnoses among Americans aged 10 to 24 in 2006 and 5,396 HIV/AIDS diagnoses across 38 reporting areas. Most went to 20-to-24-year-olds and to males, but among 10-to-14-year-olds the majority were female.
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Alzheimer's treatments may be most effective in middle-aged people
A 14-year Mayo Clinic study of 815 people aged 21 to 97 found memory decline separating APOE e4 carriers from non-carriers between ages 55 and 60, earlier than suspected. The authors suggest treatment may need to start before symptoms, and note the gene alone is not enough to cause the disease.
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Australia plans for worst case scenario
Health Minister Nicola Roxon says modelling projects 6,000 swine flu deaths in Australia if nothing were done, a figure she expects action to cut sharply. The virus has infected 10,387 people there, and a Queensland mother became the 22nd death.
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1918 Spanish Flu Survivors Immune to Swine Flu
University of Wisconsin researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka found that survivors of the 1918 pandemic are immune to the current swine flu, though not necessarily to seasonal flu, and that in animals both viruses multiply more in the respiratory tract than in the head and sinuses.
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Alzheimer's conference yields hints on brain health
Researchers at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Vienna said exercise and a brain-healthy diet can help. One study found older adults having one to two drinks a day had about a 37 percent lower dementia risk, with no benefit for those already impaired.
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Obese people at risk of severe complications and death from H1N1 infection
An editor's note frames a verbatim CDC report on Michigan intensive-care patients with the novel H1N1 virus, predicting officials will urge obese people to get vaccinated and calling that good business for drug makers. The CDC counted 94,512 cases and 429 deaths worldwide as of July 6, 2009.
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Swine flu throws a curve ball
German researchers infected five pigs with the pandemic H1N1 strain and watched it spread to three others within four days, reporting in the Journal of General Virology. Thomas Vahlenkamp says preventing human-to-pig transmission should be a priority; pig vaccine tests are underway.
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Celiac Disease 4 Times More Prevalent than Fifty Years Ago
Mayo Clinic researchers compared more than 9,000 blood samples from 1948-54 with 12,000 recent samples from Olmsted County, Minnesota, and found the gluten antibody 4.5 times more common now, roughly 1 in 100 people. Why the rate climbed remains under debate.
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Climbing Obesity Rates Concern Researchers
A Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report drawing on 2004-2006 CDC data found obesity rates rose in half the states, and that only 37 percent of 26,000 children studied fell in the normal weight range. Job losses also cut families off from wellness programs.
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Four Britons die after getting swine flu, tips help you fight against the virus
A 19-year-old London man with serious underlying health problems became the fourth person in the UK to die after contracting swine flu, the BBC reported. More than 1,900 Londoners had caught the virus, and experts warned UK cases could reach 100,000 a day within a month.
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Celiac disease on the rise: What you need to know
A Mayo Clinic study cited by WebMD found celiac disease is four times more common in the U.S. than 50 years ago, and that undiagnosed, untreated cases carry a raised risk of early death. One specialist says only about 5 percent of people with the disease know they have it.
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Former Georgia Aquarium director Jeffery Swanagan dies from heart attack
Jeffery Swanagan, former executive director and president of the Georgia Aquarium, died Sunday at 51, apparently of a heart attack. The rest of the piece reprints earlier foodconsumer reports tying tea, coffee, tobacco and seven prescription drugs to heart attack risk.
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Farrah Fawcett dies from anal cancer: What you need to know
Farrah Fawcett died at 62 of anal cancer. Doctors quoted say HPV, a sexually transmitted infection, can cause the disease, though multiple sexual partners, receptive anal intercourse and smoking also raise risk. The piece reprints NCI background on anal cancer.
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CDC: Swine flu "is not going away"
The CDC's Anne Schuchat said more than 6,000 new H1N1 cases were reported in a week, the most since the outbreak began, with 12 states seeing widespread activity. She called the reported cases the tip of the iceberg and said the disease is not going away.
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Cardiac arrest: What you need to know
Prompted by Michael Jackson's death, this NIH explainer describes sudden cardiac arrest: an arrhythmia stops the heart beating, it is not the same as a heart attack, 95 percent of victims die and most within minutes, and a defibrillator can restore normal rhythm.
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Researchers Seek to Disable Cancer Cells
Harvard's Stephen Elledge describes cancer cells as sick cells that depend on particular genes to survive, and reports one, STK33, that keeps them from self-destructing. He says a drug would only need a 50 to 70 percent knockdown rate to work.
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Surgery not neccessary for most late-stage colorectal cancers
Memorial Sloan-Kettering researchers reviewed 233 patients treated for metastatic colorectal cancer and found 93 percent never developed complications that would justify removing the primary tumor. Philip Paty says such patients do better starting chemotherapy right away.
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Swine flu cases climbing
As of May 29, 2009 the WHO counted 15,510 H1N1 cases and 99 deaths across 53 countries, adding Venezuela, Hungary, Estonia, Bolivia and Lebanon. Canadian cases jumped nearly 20 percent in two days, Victoria led Australia's count, and almost half of US patients had underlying conditions.
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