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FRIDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay news) — The standard screening test for prostate cancer may not be accurate during obese men, leaving them added assailable to the disease, and surgery is less likely to be effective for them, a new pair of studies found.

"Obese men are more likely to be diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease," said Dr.

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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A major pharmaceutical company in South Africa, that has the world's highest HIV rate, on Friday issued a recall of generic anti-retroviral drugs due to a packaging error. (Read the full post about ‘S.African drug company recalls AIDS treatment medicines (AFP)’…)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Sex between men, which is prevalent in the Caribbean region, must be decriminalized or AIDS will never be beaten there, experts at an AIDS conference in Mexico City said Thursday. (Read the full post about ‘Homosexuality must be legal to beat Caribbean AIDS: activists (AFP)’…)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A top U.N. official urged countries in Asia on Thursday to deal squarely and bravely with HIV/AIDS, which he aforesaid was being driven dangerously underground because of stigma and conservative attitudes.

"In Papua New Guinea, India, Malaysia where it is driven by injecting drug users, Indonesia, there are pockets of spread but because of stigma, it's all underground," Peter Piot, head strong of the U.N.

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Vast distances are a major hurdle to India's efforts to curb its soaring HIV rate.

India, which has the world's third largest HIV-positive caseload, gives drugs for free to HIV/AIDS patients. But doctors statement this is not enough to stop the spread of HIV which is making inroads in rural India, especially in the midst of women infected by itinerant husbands, and also children.

For three days a month, Sambit squeezes into a crowded and frequently filthy train for a three hour journey to Delhi to receive HIV treatment.

"There's no situate and I am very weak," said the 30-year-old former tailor, who asked that his full name not be revealed.

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ER, Doctor Visits Topped 1 Billion in 2006

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay news) — Americans made about 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments in 2006, which works out to an average of four visits per person per year, according to statistics released Wednesday through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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India’s vast skilled workforce gets western companies’ jobs done cheaper and faster. Much has been written about the outsourced back-office services - in IT, finance, telecom - that have helped propel the country’s growth to more than 8% a year (and elicited backlash in the countries that buy them). Now a lesser-known western industry has begun tapping India’s outsourcing pool, prompting concerns not about jobs, but about the health and safety of the Indian peopling: Big Pharma.

The price of bringing a new drug to market is, on mean proportion, $1 billion. The bulk of that cost is devoted to human clinical trials - the most crucial and time-consuming phase of drug development.

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Pharmacy Author: Omudhome Ogbru, PharmD
Medical and Pharmacy Editor: Jay W. Marks, MD

GENERIC NAME: acyclovir

BRAND NAME: zovirax

DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Acyclovir is an antiviral drug, a synthetic nucleoside analogue, that is active against the herpes viruses, including herpes simplex 1 and 2 (cold sores and genital herpes), varicella-zoster (shingles and chickenpox), and Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis).

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Children, long neglected in the fight against AIDS, still lack access to effective HIV detection programs and treatments, participants warned Thursday, at a six-day world AIDS conference. (Read the full post about ‘Experts say better treatments needed for children with HIV (AFP)’…)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Dozens of US AIDS activists demonstrated at a world AIDS conference here Wednesday calling on White House candidates to commit to HIV interruption, as experts warned of emerging US public indifference towards the disease. (Read the full post about ‘AIDS apathy worries activists at world conference (AFP)’…)