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Broward House’s New CEO Envisions Bright Future for HIV Care
Broward House, a leading organization in inclusive HIV care, has announced Nicole Burrell as its new chief executive officer. She’ll lead the organization in bringing HIV care and support to communities in Florida’s Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and is part of Miami’s northern metropolitan region.
In 2024, New Yorkers Will Get Better Access to Biomarker Testing and Precision Medicine
On December 22, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill 1196a / Assembly Bill 1673a into law, securing a major win for patients across New York. The new law will require all state-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, to cover comprehensive biomarker testing, which will enable more New Yorkers to access precision medicine treatments that can lead to fewer side effects, improved survival, better quality of life and potentially lower costs for patients facing cancer and other serious illnesses.
Research in Context: Obesity and Metabolic Health
Obesity has been a growing problem in the U.S. More than 40% of adults and 19% of children now have obesity. Some people may think of obesity as a consequence of lifestyle choices. But there are many factors affecting body weight that are beyond our conscious control. Researchers are only beginning to understand them.
Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals
Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022. “This is bad,” the 66-year-old Durant, Oklahoma, resident remembered his urologist saying. Winters braced for the fight of his life. Little did he anticipate, however, that he wouldn’t be...
Biomedical STI Prevention Evidence is Inadequate for Cisgender Women
Pivotal studies of some biomedical HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention interventions have excluded cisgender women or demonstrated low efficacy among them, limiting their prevention options relative to other populations who experience high HIV and STI incidence. Findings from a NIAID-funded study published in The New England Journal of...
Florida HIV Groups Get “Holiday Hug” Grants From The Campbell Foundation
Santa came early for 11 HIV service providers in southern Florida. They each received Holiday Hug grants from the Fort Lauderdale–based The Campbell Foundation, which funds unique evidence-based research in the treatment and prevention of HIV and AIDS. Ten groups each received a $2,000 end-of-the-year grant, while Broward House...
Severe Obesity on the Rise in Young Latino Children
A study published in Pediatrics supports existing research that the incidence of severe obesity has increased in young U.S. children, particularly young Latino children, who had the highest rate of obesity compared with other racial groups. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers looked at children ages 2 to...
Top HIV Science Stories of 2023
POZ readers showed great interest in HIV cure news, particularly cases of long-term remission. In February, researchers reported that a German man remains in remission a decade after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a mutation that blocks HIV from entering cells (No. 3). The Düsseldorf Patient is either the second or third such case, but his doctors were cautious about declaring a cure. POZ profiled Marc Franke in the July-August 2023 issue.
22 Cancer Groups Urge Biden to Support Ending Sale of Menthol, Flavored Smokes
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network joined 21 groups representing millions of cancer patients, survivors and caregivers, to send a letter on December 13 to the White House supporting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed rules to eliminate the sale of menthol in cigarettes and all flavors in cigars. The letter reads in part:
Mortality Is High After Diagnosis of Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
Several years after diagnosis, people with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD), irrespective of age or sex, have a high mortality rate, and almost half of those deaths are attributable to liver-related complications, according to study findings published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. Over time, heavy alcohol use can cause serious...
Exercise Linked to Less Belly Fat in People With HIV
Getting more physical activity can help older people with HIV shrink their waistlines in addition to offering other benefits for overall health, according to study results published in the journal AIDS. Weight gain is a growing concern for people living with HIV and their health care providers. HIV-positive people have...
How COVID-19 Compromised Gains in Controlling HIV
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed previous gains made in controlling HIV blood levels and worsened health disparities, according to UC San Francisco researchers leading the largest U.S. evaluation of the impact of the public health crisis on people with HIV. While the country had been making progress on its goals to...
Understanding the Interplay Between Viral Hepatitis and MASLD
Viral hepatitis can exacerbate the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and a thorough understanding of the interplay between hepatitis viruses and fatty liver disease is needed to better diagnose and treat these conditions, according to a review published in Cureus. MASLD, the new name for non-alcoholic fatty...
Former and Light Smokers Still Have Elevated Lung Cancer Risk
While the odds of lung cancer diagnosis are low for former smokers and light smokers, their risk is still 10 times higher than that of people who never smoked, according to study findings published in JAMA Oncology. Before the latest update in November, guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task...
Meditation Is Big Business, but What Does the Science Say?
In 2019, Debra Halsch was diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma, a rare blood and bone marrow disorder that can develop into a type of blood cancer. Her doctors recommended chemotherapy, she said, but she feared the taxing side effects the drugs might wreak on her body. Instead, the life coach from Piermont, New York tried meditation.
Patient Advocates Urge Court to Enforce Co-Pay Ruling on Cost-Sharing
Advocacy groups for people with HIV, hepatitis and diabetes thought they scored a big win this fall when a U.S. District Court ruled that health insurers must count co-pays when tabulating a patient’s deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. But last month, the Biden administration took “an extraordinary position,” in the words of the patient advocacy groups, and said it would not enforce the court’s ruling and filed an appeal.
Vaginal Ring Will Be Available in 11 African Countries – But Not in the U.S.
The dapivirine vaginal ring, an alternative HIV prevention method for women, will soon be available in nearly a dozen countries in Africa. This is welcome news, as adolescent girls and young women are among the groups most at risk in sub-Saharan Africa. But the ring is not available to women in the United States, who also need more prevention options.
Telemedicine Successful in Treating Hep C Related to Opioid Use Disorder
In recent years, telemedicine has transformed health care by increasing access to care. Telemedicine has been particularly effective for treating and curing hepatitis c virus (HCV) in people with opioid use disorder (OUD) compared with typical care, according to findings presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Policy Experts, Scientists, Disability Groups Urge Biden to Address Long COVID Crisis
A wide breadth of policy experts, scientists, and disability groups are calling on President Biden to urgently address the long COVID crisis with annual funding in the billions. In the open letter published on Monday [December 18], health policy experts, leading long COVID researchers, clinicians, journalists, chronic illness and health...
The Side Effect Roulette of Cancer Treatment
The stomach pain stopped Vickie-Lee Wall in her tracks. “The first time the pain got that bad, I honestly thought something had burst in my gut,” said the 64-year-old New Jersey woman, who has stage 4 lobular breast cancer. Her oncologist had prescribed two drugs, including a targeted...
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