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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.
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British Medical Journal Examines Recent Progress In Treating Neglected Diseases
The British Medical Journal examines the outcome of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, last week. More than 200 international health experts came together to discuss finding therapies for such diseases as visceral leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. "Current treatments are often toxic, prohibitively expensive, or difficult to administer in countries with limited res," and "[d]rug companies have little incentive to develop treatments for neglected diseases that mainly affect poor people," the journal writes.
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PeriCor Therapeutics Reports Positive Preclinical Results Of GP531 At The European Heart Failure Congress In Nice
PeriCor Therapeutics, Inc. announced that positive preclinical results of its novel cardioprotective agent, GP531, were reported in a poster presentation by Hani N. Sabbah, Ph.D., at the European Heart Failure Congress 2009 in Nice, France. The study was funded by PeriCor Therapeutics, Inc. and conducted by Dr. Sabbah and colleagues at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine of the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan. GP531 is an investigational drug under development by PeriCor Therapeutics under an Investigational New Drug (IND) application.
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Dental School 'Imprints' Students With Skills For Community Service

More than ever, pediatric dental students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) are working in communities, with special emphasis on serving the underserved. For more than a decade, the Dental School at UMB, in collaboration with state and national dental associations, has sent its hygiene and dental students out to low-income, inner-city and rural areas where children have limited access to dental care. This year the School expanded its outreach to six weeks of each student"s dental education. Dozens of projects are scheduled each year all over the state. [For video "Pediatric Student Outreach at National Dental Museum," go to YouTube"s UMBchannel] "We want to imprint in our students that, not that only are they practitioners, but they are part of a community that needs the care of professionals," says Norman Tinanoff, DDS, MS, program director of the School"s Department of Pediatric Dentistry. "We emphasize that in all four years," he adds. Tinanoff says that the students are taught that dentistry is more than a technical surgical specialty. Rather, their education is aimed at experiencing service to the community "in different social environments, especially what they don"t see at the Dental School," he says. There are many citizens of Maryland who can"t get access to care. The pediatric student outreach projects include providing dental care to migrant worker"s children on Maryland"s Eastern Shore, recent immigrants and their children who may not have citizenship and may not have access to state and federal programs, the Langley Park Latino community in central Maryland, the Esperanza Center in Baltimore, and rural communities in far northern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. The School, which is part of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, collaborates in outreach with the Maryland State Dental Association, Maryland Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Hispanic Dental Association, National Dental Association, and others. University of Maryland Baltimore


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