Gale Scott

A Korean analysis of 25,000 patients found a new risk of stroke: being metabolically obese even though body weight is normal.

Fecal Microbiota Transplant is being used to treat C. difficile infections, but it can cause complications and even death, a study found.

The FDA approved a fixed-dose combination of canagliflozin and metformin hydrochloride extended release (Invokamet RX/Janssen).

Nearly a quarter of HIV positive patients getting care through the Ryan White federally funded treatment program have not gotten their viral loads down. The analysis was made by the district's health department, which has used the data to address the problem.

Can Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV be given post-exposure? Absolutely, a New York City team reports.

When a non-profit AIDS advocacy group offers as many programs as Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) efficiency is a challenge. The organization relies on three management practices to remain efficient and audit-ready, particularly data-driven administrative supervision.

HIV AIDS is treatable but in rural areas the fear of people finding out an individual's HIV status can be a barrier. A University of Virginia Health System team has had success with training peer coaches to counsel such patients.

San Francisco, CA, with the backing of generous state Medicaid coverage, believes it can wipe out hepatitis C in vulnerable populations including people with HIV, intravenous drug users, homeless people, and prisoners in the city's jails.

More than 40% of US AIDS/HIV cases are in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but economic turmoil there is making it hard to fight the epidemic.

For 30 years, an outreach group in Oakland, CA has been winning the confidence of prostitutes as the first step in helping them be healthy and HIV-free. California Prostitutes Education Project representatives offered tips in a workshop.

A high percentage of people with HIV are also cigarette smokers, a problem that the state of Michigan is tackling with targeting smoking cessation programs.

People living with HIV/AIDS may have trouble getting authorization for HCV direct acting antivirals. Amida Care in NYC, a Medicai MCO came up with a plan.

Social and religious conservatism appears to have turned the Southern US into the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the US, human rights activist Megan McLemore, JD, LLM said at a session on AIDS in the South today at the United States Conference on AIDS. Still another problem is the non-acceptance of LGBT people by many African-American churches, attendees added.

AIDS activists have not lost their zeal for protest. At a pharma-sponsored luncheon, a band of activists criticizing the price of antivirals brought things to a brief halt.

WIth high rates of HIV infection among black and Latino men who have sex with men, a dozen cities in the US have started trial programs aimed at getting HIV negative MSM to embrace pre-exposure prophylaxis, both "holistic" and pharmaceutical.

From showgirls to scientists, attendees at the 20th Annual US Conference on AIDS found much to celebrate and a lot left to be done in the quest to conquer HIV/AIDS.

David Ho, MD, has been a pioneer in the development of AIDS antivirals, starting with his work on protease inhibitors 20 years ago. Kicking off the US Conference on AIDS today in Hollywood, FL, Ho said a new bi-monthly injection is looking like the next breakthrough in HIV/AIDS prevention.

The European Society of Cardiology's ESC Congress 2016 in Rome, Italy was huge, hot, and full of drama. Will any of the thousands of research reports delivered change practice?

Thousands of cardiologists and other attendees at the ESC Congress 2016 got to meet Pope Francis, who told them he marveled at the science and human mystery of the heart.

About a quarter of patients who survived heart attacks due to blocked arteries could be treated with drugs, not invasive procedures. The trick is determining whether the blockage is cause by plaque erosion, not plaque rupture. With optical coherence tomography a team in Boston did just that.

The antiplatelet drugs prasugrel and ticagrelor are both fine for dual antiplatelet therapy following acute myocardial infarctions with ST segment elevations, a Czech study found.

Drug-eluting stents are falling far short of their promises of fewer complications, improved mortality and quality of life, a study found. In the largest study ever done comparing newer drug-eluting stents to bare metal devices, Norwegian researchers found the drug stents did not show a difference in these outcomes.

Adding a PCSK9 inhibitor to apheresis therapy worked so well in reducing LDL in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia that two-thirds of the patients stopped getting apheresis.

Should cardiac rehab be standard for patients who've had a heart attack. If so, how long should it last? A Dutch study found a year was about right.

Apheresis, the blood-filtering treatment used to remove cholesterol, appears to work for patients whose angina cannot be alleviated with drugs or surgical interventions researchers said today.

Simple preventive measures like reducing cholesterol and blood pressure should cut the risk of heart disease deaths and hospitalizations by up to 90%, an analysis found.

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators are not for all heart failure patients, the DANISH study found.

Not all the news on remote monitoring of cardiac devices was bad at the ESC Congress 2016. Though a UK study had negative findings,Italian researchers said their use reduced office and ED visits and saved patients time and money.

Remote monitoring of heart patients who have implanted heart devices does not appear to help them live longer, a UK study called REM-HF found.

Statins should not be physicians' first option in treating all patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease, according to new European treatment guidelines.