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Swine Flu Daily Update Issued At: 11am Tuesday 7 July 2009, Wales
-- 58 laboratory confirmed cases in Wales, with eight new cases:
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HIV/AIDS Advocacy Group Calls For Condom Use In Los Angeles County Adult Film Industry; County Response To HIV Cases Questioned
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) on Thursday called on Los Angeles County health officials to require that condoms be used in the adult film industry or shut down production in light of a recent report that a number of people at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIMHF) clinic have tested positive for HIV since 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. The group also criticized the county"s response to cases of HIV in the adult industry. Michael Weinstein, president of AHF, said, "L.A. County public health officials have been asleep at the switch with regard to monitoring HIV and STD prevention and testing in the region"s porn industry." Other questions have been raised regarding the county"s role in the notification of partners of those who test positive for HIV, according to the Times (Los Angeles Times, 6/19).
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Less Than One Drop Of Blood Needed By New Device To Detect Heart Disease
Testing people for heart disease might be just a finger prick away thanks to a new credit card-sized device created by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities in Boston. In a research report published online in The FASEB Journal, they describe how this device can measure and collect a type of cells needed to build vascular tissue, called endothelial progenitor cells, using only 200 microliters of blood. The development is also significant because it allows scientists to collect these cells much more easily than current techniques allow, bringing laboratory-created tissue for vascular bypass surgeries another step closer to reality.
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New Data Show Cost Savings Achieved By Treating Mild And Moderate Alzheimer's Patients With Aricept(R)

Researchers attending the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISPOR), heard today that prescribing Aricept® (donepezil hydrochloride) as soon as patients are diagnosed with either mild or moderate Alzheimer"s disease saves the NHS money. The findings contradict the recommendation by NICE that these medicines are not cost effective in the early stages of the disease, a decision that has been the subject of much recent debate. The study shows that direct savings to the NHS over a ten year period average over ÷£4,000 per patient for those starting treatment in the mild stages of the disease. Total savings to society rise to ÷£7,100 per patient when the cost of care giver"s time is included. The average direct saving to the NHS over the same period for patients across the mild and moderate stages of the disease was estimated to be ÷£2,300 per patient, and for society ÷£4,800 when care giver"s time is taken into account. The study, sponsored by Eisai, uses more accurate calculations and more up-to-date costs of Alzheimer"s disease treatment than were used in the analyses undertaken by NICE, and the authors conclude that their findings indicate the decision taken by NICE to restrict treatment to patients with moderate Alzheimer"s disease was highly questionable. ISPOR


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