Carolyn Colwell

Although women represent almost half of the people living with HIV, men still make up the majority of the subjects used in HIV research. The NIH is one of the biggest offenders in this research isparity, a study finds.

States like Texas that spend relatively little on public health programs to treat and prevent HIV infection have higher rates of new infection, a study finds.

Adolescent boys with HIV suffer greater bone loss than their female counterparts, possibly because estrogen is protective against two of the factors contributing to bone loss, a study in California found.

Truvada has been shown effective in preventing HIV infection, but for it to work for women it takes a daily dose, while men may get by with just two weekly doses, North Carolina researchers report.

The cost of treating HIV in nine nations in Africa with antiretroviral drugs through 2050 is an estimated $261 billion, far more than the $98 billion it will cost to sustain current levels of treatment, a Harvard study found.

Making the switch to daylight savings time can send some people to the hospital, a study from Finland shows.

Commercial enterprises that sell genetic tests directly to consumers are popular. But what happens when patients get the results?

Physicians need to be more aggressive in treating status epilepticus, prolonged seizures lasting 30 minutes, according to a new guideline from the American Epilepsy Society. Nearly a third of patients who experience this condition die.

In a decision on pediatric care that has dismayed autism advocates and some experts, a federal task force has ruled there is not enough evidence to show that screening all US toddlers for autism is a good idea.

Tailoring treatment of patients with breathing problems to rigid protocols for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma is an outmoded approach, an international group of researchers conclude.

Using Functional MRI scans researchers can "see" pain, study reports. The finding should be useful in evaluating pain-relievers.

To be young and African-American with a connective tissue disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, means possibly facing a greater risk of developing some types of heart disease.

Researchers are closing in on a medical treatment for wart-like skin growths know as seborrheic keratosis.

The great Italian sculptor and painter Michelangelo wrote relatives he was having trouble with his hands. Was it gout? Not so, a team of disease detectives write.

The presence of bone marrow lesions in osteoarthritis may help predict the pace of joint-space narrowing, a signal that that osteoarthritis is progressing.

Patients with multiple sclerosis who lose brain volume are entering a phase of greater disability and more severe disease, a study found.

Austrian researchers proved that iron builds up in the brain in patients with multiple sclerosis, but the significance of the change is unclear.

Damage to the brain’s white matter precipitates eventual damage to its grey matter in early cases of Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PPMS), according to a recent study by British scientists.

Attaining a high level of education could lower a person's risk for multiple sclerosis (MS), a Norwegian study reported.

A history of multiple surgeries and general anesthesia shouldn't necessarily worry the elderly about their risk of diminishing mental abilities, according to a new Mayo Clinic study.

An awakening in the midst of surgery is a patient’s and an anesthesiologist’s nightmare. British scientists have developed a new way to prevent that.

The use of oral fluconazole to treat vaginal candidiasis in pregnant women is associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion.

Alexithymia, the inability to identify and verbalize feelings--but not emotional repression--may be a predictor of chronic pain after breast cancer surgery.

Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CWP) felt throughout the body is a global problem that affects an estimated 10% to 15% of the general population, British researchers have found. But some societies report far more CWP than others.