Posted by: admin on: October 4, 2011
The list of medications that women shouldn’t take in pregnancy keeps getting longer. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration strengthened warnings that expectant mothers who take topiramate (brand name Topamax), for migraines or to control seizures, have an increased risk of giving birth to babies with cleft lips or cleft palates.
Posted by: admin on: September 23, 2011
A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting HIV, syphilis and other infectious diseases, according to a study released Sunday. -Team@CMHF
Posted by: admin on: August 18, 2011
In October 2010, an article was published in Cancer Online that looked at more than 20,000 men from Sweden who had their blood drawn and stored when they were between the ages of 33 and 50. Over time, through 2006, more than 1400 of the men were diagnosed with prostate cancer. The investigators went back […]
Posted by: admin on: June 2, 2011
A human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test detects antibodies to HIV or the genetic material (DNA or RNA) of HIV in the blood or another type of sample. This determines whether an HIV infection is present (HIV-positive). HIV infects white blood cells called CD4+ cells, which are part of the body’s immune system that help fight […]