Experts laid out a health care road map for U.S. presidential candidates on Thursday, recommending more organized care, with an emphasis on overall health as opposed to expensive interventions. Reuters Health Information
Pharmacogenetics is a fast-moving field on the brink of influencing clinical practice, especially in psychiatry. Learn about predicting side effects, predicting response, and more. Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
Learn about technical advances in pharmacogenetics and new research on barriers to clinical use of this emerging technology. Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
A program backed by U.S. health authorities brought HIV tests to about 24,000 people at high risk for infection who otherwise might have been missed by AIDS prevention efforts, officials said on Thursday. Reuters Health Information
The World Health Organisation expressed concern on Friday about the emergence of a new strain of the Ebola virus that has infected 51 people and killed 16 in western Uganda. Reuters Health Information
Rapid HIV testing in outreach and other community settings is useful in detecting infection in racial/ethnic minority groups as well as in high-risk individuals, according to study findings appearing in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday. Reuters Health Information
Compared with women of other races, the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis infection is more than 10 times higher in non-Hispanic black women of reproductive age, researchers report in the November 15th issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information
The FDA has approved a new indication for aripiprazole (Abilify), capsule formulations of topotecan HCl (Hycamtin), and a new regimen for fosamprenavir calcium (Lexiva). Medscape Medical News
