CANADIAN NEWS
Toronto Star’s healthzone 31 March 2011
Around 2,000 new cases of oral cancer are diagnosed each year in Canada, a three per cent rate of annual increase. HPV is responsible for about two-thirds of cases being diagnosed today, doctors say.
Post Media 30 Mar 2011
A triple drug combination can eliminate hepatitis C in both the newly infected as well as the hardest-to-treat patients, according to research involving more than 100 Canadian patients.
Edmonton Journal Mar 31, 2011
The H1N1 flu virus is still circulating in Alberta, with three of seven deaths in the province directly related to that strain this flu season.
Canadian Press Mar 25, 2011
The federal government has announced a new 10-year pandemic flu vaccine contract with GlaxoSmithKline, valued at more than $425 million, as well as a deal with a backup supplier, Sanofi Pasteur.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 253, April 2011
In 2001, antibiotic resistance was not very fashionable beyond clinicians and researchers with first-hand knowledge of the topic. However, now that it is the focus of WHO's World Health Day on April 7, resistance has joined the front rank of global health concerns.
The Economist March 31, 2011
What can be done about the rising risk of antibiotic resistance?
Agence France-Presse March 31, 2011
With the war on AIDS nearing its 30th anniversary, the UN on Thursday declared "a moment of truth" had come for new strategies to address the campaign's failures and brake costs that were now unsustainable.
Science Speaks blog March 30, 2011
Nelson L. Michael is a medical doctor, has a doctorate in molecular biology, holds the rank of colonel in the U.S. Medical Corps and his day job is huge: He is in charge of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Rockville, Md. Often his job is figuring out how to make things work for research, and that has led him to Mozambique a couple of times in recent months to talk about starting a clinical trial site for HIV vaccine research.
Millions at Risk of Flu Complications Went Unvaccinated in England
The Guardian, March 27, 2011
More than five million people potentially at risk of health complications from flu went unvaccinated in England over the winter. Hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers also had no jab, leaving them open to infecting vulnerable patients.
The Guardian, March 27, 2011
More than five million people potentially at risk of health complications from flu went unvaccinated in England over the winter. Hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers also had no jab, leaving them open to infecting vulnerable patients.
CONFERENCE: IMPACT OF VACCINES ON PUBLIC HEALTH
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference on the Impact of Vaccines on Public Health 1 - 3 April 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
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News Medical March 31, 2011
International experts gather in Prague today for a three day meeting focused on the impact of vaccines on public health, at a time of increasing concern that public scepticism and complacency could undermine the positive impact of current and future vaccine campaigns.
MEETING & NEW REPORT: STOP TB PARTNERSHIP
Science Speaks blog 31 Mar 2011
U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah spoke at the opening session of the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting Thursday, addressing an audience of physician-scientists, industry representatives, advocates and government officials in addition to the ministers of health from Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa.
Stop TB Partnership (News release) 29 March 2011
The Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Stop TB Partnership have released the second edition of a 2010 report on funding trends for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D). The report covers the same 2005 to 2009 period as the first edition but adds new and corrected information from product development partnerships such as Aeras, FIND, TB Alliance, TBVAC and TBVI, as well as revised data from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
MEETING & NEW REPORT: UNAIDS 2015 GOALS FOR AIDS RESPONSE
UNAIDS News Release March 31, 2011
In lead-up to June High Level Meeting, progress report presents overview of efforts needed to help countries achieve universal access to HIV services and zero new HIV infections, discrimination and AIDS-related deaths
Related: the report can be found online at: unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/unitednationsdeclarationsandgoals/2011highlevelmeetingonaids/
