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A new report shows differences in immune system responses between a group of African Americans with MS compared with Caucasians. Previous research had shown that clinical symptoms differ between these groups, and the current findings may help to explain why. Drs. John R. Rinker II, Anne Cross (Washington University in St. Louis) and colleagues have published this study in the July 3 issue of [click link for full article]

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health08.org Web site, Kaiser Family Foundation: With health care emerging as a top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential election, the Kaiser Family Foundation this week launched a new Web site — health08.org. [click link for full article]

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A National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) President and Chief Executive Officer Steven C. Anderson, IOM, CAE, issued the following statement today on the occasion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) release on July 6 of the final rule related to the Deficit Reduction Act and prescription drugs under the Medicaid program. [click link for full article]

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Results from a clinical study conducted with patients who were diagnosed with advanced, refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) showed nearly a third of patients responded to treatment with ZOLINZA? (vorinostat), as measured by objective response rate, according to data published in this week’s Journal of Clinical Oncology. [click link for full article]

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These days, it’s easy for people to get confused about exercise — how many minutes a day should they spend working out, for how long and at what exertion level. Conflicting facts and opinions abound, but one Mayo Clinic physician says the bottom line is this: walking is good, whether the outcome measurement is blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, joint problems or mental health.”Getting out there and taking a walk is what it’s all about,” says James Levine, M.D. [click link for full article]

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the ruling by the High Judicial Council of Libya to revoke the death sentence previously imposed on six healthcare workers by the Supreme Court. The Council announced recently that it would commute the death sentence for the medical professionals to life imprisonment. [click link for full article]

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The first genome-wide association study of an infectious disease, conducted by an international group of researchers through the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), has yielded a new understanding of why some people can suppress virus levels following HIV infection. “The clearer picture of host responses to the virus achieved through this examination of genomes could lead to improved HIV therapies and provides new targets for vaccine developers,” says Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. [click link for full article]

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Fertility clinics might be overusing a laboratory technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection despite the technique’s additional cost, uncertain efficacy and risks, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Stobbe, AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/18). [click link for full article]

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Family doctors don’t always feel that they can achieve healthy cholesterol levels intheir patients even though they are aware of the dangers of cardiovascular disease,according to an international survey of practitioners published in the July issue ofIJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. [click link for full article]

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A thumb’s up for “I’m good.” The rubbing of a pointed forefinger at another for “shame on you.” The infamous and ubiquitous middle finger salute for - well, you know. Such gestures that convey meaning without speech are used and recognized by nearly everyone in our society, but to someone from a foreign country, they may be incomprehensible.The opposite is true as well. [click link for full article]

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