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Joint Replacement Patients With Diabetes Greatly Benefit From Controlled Glucose
Diabetics undergoing total joint replacement often are at a higher risk of experiencing complications after surgery due to various pre-existing health conditions. According to a new study published in the July 2009 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), those complications are less likely to occur when a diabetic patient has glucose levels under control.
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Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection In Patients With High Risk Testicular Cancer
UroToday.com - We performed a retrospective review of retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) patients with high risk features (>30% embryonal carcinoma, with or without lymphovascular invasion) and compared primary (P-RPLND) versus post-chemotherapy (PC-RPLND) patients. The average percent embryonal carcinoma between P-RPLND vs. PC-RPLND was 75.3 vs. 71.2%, respectively. The average LVI between P-RPLND vs. PC-RPLND was 53.4 vs. 61.4%, respectively.
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Columnist Discusses Recent Findings On Teenage Condom Use, HIV Prevention
"In the past few months, we"ve experienced near hysteria over swine flu and almost constant media attention to scares about tainted food," syndicated columnist Marie Cocco writes in the Oregonian, adding, "These are genuine health hazards - but they aren"t necessarily deadly, nor do they affect nearly as many people in the United States and around the world as does AIDS." Cocco discusses a recent finding by researchers from Columbia University and the Alan Guttmacher Institute that links a drop in condom use among teenagers "in part to waning public concern about transmission of HIV." She writes, "The clear increase in the proportion of teenagers using condoms came during years when public health and media messages about the dangers of HIV were at a height." Cocco continues, "You can argue, based on hard data, that when it comes to teenagers and sex, good policy and genuine leadership get better results than moralizing or ignoring signals that an upsurge in HIV infections may emerge" (Cocco, 7/2).
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Responding To Global Health Crises: Seminar, Australia

How The World Health Organization develops its policy recommendations and responds to global health crises is the subject of a talk at The Australian National University today. The seminar will be given by Dr Tikki Pang, Director of Research Policy and Cooperation at the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition to discussing his role at the WHO, Dr Pang will also talk about the role that primary health care plays in developing countries. Dr Pang, an ANU graduate, is also Secretary of the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee and Advisory Committee on Health Research. Prior to joining the WHO, he was Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Malaya. Dr Pang is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK), Institute of Biology (UK), American Academy of Microbiology (USA), Academy of Medicine of Malaysia and Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), and a Member of the International Molecular Biology Network (IMBN). He holds a PhD in Immunology-Microbiology from ANU. SEMINAR: Global perspectives on health policy development: from evidence to practice WHO: Dr Tikki Pang, World Health Organization, Director of Research Policy & Cooperation WHEN: 3pm - 4.30pm, Monday 13 July WHERE: Finkel Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU. Australian National University


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