Reuters reports that as a new camp capable of hosting 10,000 to 12,000 refugees in Yemen will open in a few weeks, “[m]alnutrition and the risk of a cholera outbreak are threatening lives at Yemen’s main camp [Masrak] for people fleeing fighting in the north.” According to Thomas Davin, regional UNICEF chief, “Hygiene is terrible, [...] Read more »

Diabetics face many health challenges, and among them is the risk of developing foot ulcers. “Foot ulcers can be painful and can lead to further infections and even limb amputation if they are not monitored or treated correctly,” said Marcus M. Riedhammer, M.D., Certified Wound Specialist, Geisinger Medical Center. Read The Full Article…Foot Ulcers [...] Read more »

A team of scientists in the US found that mice lacking a gene that is involved with and controls enzymes that regulate energy production in cells became obese and insulin resistant even though they ate less and exercised more than their brothers and sisters. Read The Full Article…Lack Of Energy-Regulating Gene Caused [...] Read more »

IV is a virus related to HIV that can infect monkeys. In some strains of monkey (which are known as natural hosts) SIV does not cause disease, whereas it does in others (which are known as susceptible hosts). It is hoped that understanding why SIV does not cause disease in natural hosts will provide insight [...] Read more »

HIV and sexual health charity, Terrence Higgins Trust Cymru (THT Cymru) is calling for people in Cardiff and Newport to get involved in World AIDS Day (December 1) this year, either by attending an event, making a donation to support local HIV services, or wearing a red ribbon to raise awareness. World AIDS [...] Read more »

Fact Sheets Examine U.S. Role In Global Health Programs The Kaiser Family Foundation has released three new fact sheets examining the U.S.’s role in global health programs, including PEPFAR, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the Read The Full Article…Recent Releases In Global Health Read more »

Experts at an American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting this week said that resistance to the best available drug to treat malaria “is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported,” Science News/Wired Science reports. Researchers have been monitoring Read The Full Article…News Outlets Examine Malaria Drug Resistance, Hope For Malaria Eradication In [...] Read more »

Dr. Samie Jaffrey Receives Competitive NIH Director’s T-R01 Award Speedier Lab Testing With Results That Glow in the Dark Dr. Samie Jaffrey, associate professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College, is among the first researchers to win a prestigious NIH Director’s Transformative R01 award from the National Institutes of Health. [...] Read more »

A simple blood test corresponding to the follicular phase (days 3-14) of a normal menstrual cycle can aid in optimal scheduling of breast MRI exams in premenopausal women with irregular cycles – possibly reducing the number of repeat scans and non-diagnostic tests patients experience and providing clearer images on which doctors make their recommendations, according [...] Read more »

A team led by Penn State’s Ross Hardison, T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has taken a large step toward unraveling how regulatory proteins control the production of gene products during development and growth. Working with collaborators including Drs. Mitchell Weiss and Gerd Blobel at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, they focused specifically [...] Read more »