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Camera-Phone Uses Blood, Saliva Samples To Diagnose Disease
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a "prototype camera-phone mounted with a microscope" that can "magnify and photograph blood or saliva samples" for diagnosing diseases, the Canadian Press/Google.com reports. A report on the device was published on Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. The prototype, called CellScope, would enable "disease screening and diagnosis in the field where specialized clinical microscopy laboratories aren"t available, including in underdeveloped countries," according to the news service (Ubelacker, 7/21).
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Children's Hospitals And Clinics Of Minnesota Receive Level III Trauma Designation
The Minnesota Department of Health recently designated Children"s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota"s two hospital locations as Level III Trauma Hospitals. Children"s of Minnesota has the sixth busiest pediatric emergency department in the nation with over 84,000 visits per year, and already treats around 450 trauma cases each year. Children"s voluntarily participated in the intense designation process, which included an external review of the hospitals" res and capabilities to care for young trauma patients. Children"s met the required standards of commitment, clinical and equipment res, and staff training.
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Prostate-Specific Antigen: To Test Or Not To Test, From Harvard Men's Health Watch
One of the most controversial issues in men"s health is whether men should routinely have a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to screen for prostate cancer. Some experts argue that PSA testing saves lives by helping detect this common form of cancer early. Others say it triggers unnecessary treatment that disrupts many more lives than it saves. The results of two studies released this spring focused the debate, but scientists are still a long way from concluding the discussion, reports the July 2009 issue of Harvard Men"s Health Watch.
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Abusive Relationships Increase Women's Risk Of HIV Infection

A new study of nearly 14,000 U.S. women reveals that those who are in physically abusive relationships are at higher risk for HIV infection. The study, which appears in the May/June issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, shows that "intimate partner violence," which is physical or sexual assault of a spouse or partner, has become a significant public health concern around the world. While research on the problem has taken place in Africa and India, the new study is the first to look at the issue among a large number of women in the United States. Researchers led by Jitender Sareen, M.D., used data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, which conducted interviews with women ages 20 and older during 2004 to 2005. They analyzed information from 13,928 women who reported being in a romantic relationship during the last 12 months. Researchers asked the women whether they had experienced physical or sexual violence from their partner during the last year, and whether they had received a diagnosis of HIV during the same time. The researchers found that 5.5 percent of the women in relationships reported abuse by their partners. The rate of HIV infection in the women was 0.17 percent. The results showed that women who experience violence from their partners were more than three times as likely to have HIV infection as women who do not. In addition, almost 12 percent of HIV infection among women was due to intimate partner violence. "These numbers are solely due to forced sex on women from their infected partners. It is a substantial percentage," said Sareen, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba in Canada. "This is a very large sample of people and, on methodology side, it"s a decent study, so people will need to pay attention to it," said Julia Heiman, director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University. "The relationship between the two is definitely known worldwide," Heiman said. "The partner violence issue, however, is an important one that often gets lost. The numbers that the researchers found should make people take notice that partner violence is definitely a risk factor for HIV." General Hospital Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed research journal published bimonthly by Elsevier Science. For information about the journal, contact Wayne Katon, M.D., at (206) 543-7177. Sareen J, Pagura J, Grant B. Is intimate partner violence associated with HIV infection among women in the United States? General Hosp Psychiatry, 31(3), 2009. Health Behavior News Service


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