Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost

A new analysis published this week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE (Feb. 3, 2012) focused on a combined public health campaign in Western Province, Kenya led by the Swiss-based company Vestergaard Frandsen, the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The analysis looked at the cost effectiveness of simultaneously confronting the problems of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrhea caused by waterborne pathogens.

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Ralph A. Nixon, PhD, MD, Appointed Chairman, Medical and Scientific Advisory Council and Member, National Board of Directors of the Alzheimer's Association

Contact: Lorinda Klein NYU Langone Medical Center 212.404.3533 917.693.4846 lorindaann.klein@nyumc.org Ralph A. Nixon, PhD, MD, professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Cell Biology, director of the NYU Center of Excellence on Brain Aging and the Silberstein Alzheimer’s Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center has been named chair of the Alzheimer’s Association Medical and Scientific Advisory Council (MSAC) and has also been appointed to the Association’s national Board of Directors.

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"Clear!" A Shock to the Heart Won't Hurt

On most television shows and movies when a patient flat lines and the nurse or doctor grabs an automated external defibrillator (AED) the next words might be “clear!” But this portrayal of AED use is a misconception that needs to be overcome.

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A Lonely Heart Can Make You Sick

Newly divorced middle aged women are more vulnerable to contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, according to Christopher Coleman, PhD, MPH, RN, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, because they tend to let their guard down with new sexual partners and avoid using protection since they are unafraid of getting pregnant.

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Alzheimer's Disease: Tau Spreads in the Brain, Not Between People

Tau, the protein that tangles together in Alzheimer's, spreads from cell to cell in the mouse brain, perhaps explaining disease progression in humans, suggests a new study. "Alzheimer's disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell...." says The New York Times, but experts assure Alzforum that the disease is not contagious.

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AACR Supports World Cancer Day, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

The American Association for Cancer Research supports World Cancer Day on Saturday, Feb. 4, and the efforts of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to bring the looming world cancer crisis to the forefront by urging the public, government leaders and health policy makers to take proactive steps in the global fight against cancer.

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