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Jet Lag -Trends And Coping Strategies
Frequent air travelers, as well as people who fly only occasionally, are often inconvenienced by the effects of jet lag, according to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine"s 56th Annual Meeting in Seattle. Christopher Berger, Ph.D., Chair of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Task Force on Healthy Air Travel, "Exercise is Medicine™ On the Fly," explains that jet lag, medically called desynchronosis, is the physiological response to alterations to circadian rhythms.
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New Journal Focusing On Neuroscience Research To Be Published By The American Chemical Society
With neuroscience on the threshold of unprecedented advances in understanding and treating Alzheimer"s disease, Parkinson"s disease, autism, and a range of other disorders of the brain and nervous system, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced plans to launch a new journal devoted to the molecular basis of neurological disease.
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OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Announces Release Of Two ASCO Abstracts
OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OGXI) announced the release of two abstracts to be presented during oral presentations at the upcoming American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Abstracts are now available to the public online on the OncoGenex Web site at http://www.oncogenex.com in addition to the ASCO Web site, http://www.abstract.asco.org.
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AP/Los Angeles Times Examines Haiti's Fight Against HIV

The AP/Los Angeles Times examines Haiti"s success at reducing the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in the country through the work of the "nonprofit groups, Boston-based Partners in Health (PIH) and Port-au-Prince"s GHESKIO, widely considered to be the world"s oldest AIDS clinic." Haiti"s HIV rate is "lower than the Bahamas, Guyana and Suriname, and much lower than sub-Saharan Africa, where the rate averages about 5 percent but spikes to 24 percent in Botswana and 33 percent in Swaziland," according to the newspaper. Still, as the article notes, Haiti"s "crisis is far from over," with varying infection rates across remote regions in the country. "From 1993 to 2003, only pregnant women were tested, and their rate of infection dropped from 6.2 percent to 3.1 percent, according to GHESKIO and national health surveys," the newspaper writes. "Researchers now test men and women aged 15 to 49, and the official rate is 2.2 percent, according to UNAIDS." The article details the early successes of PIH and GHESKIO and highlights such programs as PIH"s ""accompagnateur" program, in which local workers including HIV patients are paid to help the newly diagnosed adhere to physically taxing medication regimens and prevention measures," and "GHESKIO"s work, such as distributing phone cards to patients to keep in closer touch with their doctors." The article also notes, "Thanks in large part to UNAIDS, which awarded Haiti its first grant in 2002, and $420 million from the U.S. President"s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, an estimated 18,000 people are on AIDS drugs, most of them administered free through GHESKIO and PIH" (Katz, 7/5). 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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