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Surgery, Oral Devices Associated With Improvement In Sleep Breathing Disorder
Treatment with surgery or an oral appliance that adjusts the jaw is associated with improvements in obstructive sleep apnea, a condition caused by blocked upper airways in which patients periodically stop breathing during sleep, according to two reports in the May issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Two people with the same kind of cancer who receive the exact same treatment may nevertheless have different chances of their tumors coming back years later. Now a team of scientists has developed a computer model that predicts cancer recurrence in an individual based on how her tumor changes size in response to the first rounds of radiation therapy.
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International Team Tracks Clues To HIV
Rice University"s Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to bind with other proteins.
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Briefing To Examine U.S. Strategy For Combating Malaria Around The World

The Kaiser Family Foundation will hold a briefing on June 17 to examine the U.S. government"s role in addressing malaria, including its strategic options for reducing the impact of the disease and the current status of the development of the comprehensive malaria strategy. The discussion will touch on issues such as: What will the U.S. malaria response look like over the next five years? What strategies are most likely to prove effective? How will the U.S. efforts fit into the broader global response to malaria? Moderated by Kaiser Vice President Jen Kates, the briefing will include Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the U.S. malaria coordinator; Sir Richard Feachem, professor of global health at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley and director of the Global Health Group at University of California, San Francisco; David Brandling-Bennett, deputy director, malaria in the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Natasha Bilimoria, executive director of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and Mark Green, managing director of the Malaria Policy Center. WHEN: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET (Registration and breakfast at 9 a.m.) WHERE: Barbara Jordan Conference Center (Kaiser Family Foundation Office) 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, DC (one block west of Metro Center) RSVP: Please RSVP to Tiffany Ford Fields or call 202-347-5270. CONTACT: For further information, please email Craig Palosky or call 202-347-5270. WEBCAST: For those who cannot attend in person, an archived webcast of the briefing will be available later that day at www.kff.org. This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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