Medicare Health Plans-Patient Satisfaction-Older Americans-Health Official-Healthday News

South Africa reports new success in saving newborns from HIV

A newborn baby girl, daughter of a HIV-positive mother, receives an anti-retroviral drug

About 117,000 babies were saved from HIV infection last year under South Africa's scheme to prevent mothers from passing on the disease during childbirth, health official said Thursday. read more..

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Medicare Beats Private Plans for Patient Satisfaction: Survey

THURSDAY, July 19 (Healthday News) -- Older Americans enrolled in Medicare health plans have better access to care and are less likely to have problems paying their medical bills than people who insure themselves or receive coverage through their employers, according to a new study. read more..

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Health Regulators-Hiv Infection

FDA delays decision on first drug to prevent HIV

Federal health regulators have delayed a decision on whether to approve the first pill shown to prevent HIV infection, the drug's manufacturer says. read more..

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Food And Drug Administration-Gilead Sciences-Hiv Infection

FDA panel backs first pill to block HIV infection

The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. read more..

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FDA panel backs first pill to block HIV infection

The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. read more..

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HIV Infection Rates-Gilead Sciences-Hiv Infection-AIDS Drugs

Using AIDS drugs to prevent infection: a bargain?

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Giving an AIDS-fighting drug to men who are at high risk of HIV infection would cost billions, but it might be worth it terms of reducing infection rates, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Since 2010, when a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that giving a daily dose of Gilead Sciences' Truvada to men who have sex with men can reduce HIV infection rates by 44 percent, researchers have been trying to work out how to make this treatment approach financially feasible. ... read more..

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Food And Drug Administration-Aids Healthcare Foundation

HIV pill for prevention debated as FDA ruling nears

(Reuters) - An advocacy group concerned about costs and possible Health Problems related to a drug being considered to help stop the spread of HIV infection to healthy people has asked U.S. regulators to delay or deny its approval. Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has petitioned the Food And Drug Administration on the grounds that studies have shown that the pill, Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, is only partially effective in preventing transmission. The drug is already approved to treat people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. ... read more..

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