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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has just released funding to support 11 projects that aim to improve uptake and regular use of male and female condoms by developing new designs that significantly preserve or enhance pleasure and simplify use.
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A review of 10 years of national data indicates that clinicians have been performing unnecessary Pap tests for cervical cancer screening in certain groups of women: those who have undergone hysterectomies and those older than age 65 with no cervical cancer history.
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As this issue went to press, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory notice to public health officials and clinicians on recognizing, managing, and reporting chikungunya virus infections in travelers returning from the Caribbean.
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Many more cases of Lyme carditis may go unrecognized
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In a prospective, open-label, intervention study conducted over four influenza seasons, higher dose oseltamivir compared to standard dose produced no additional benefits in patients with influenza A infection.
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Ten of 19 members of an Israeli tour group chose to swim in the high-altitude fresh water of a crater lake in western Uganda. All 10 (and none of the 9 non-swimmers in the group) developed acute schistosomiasis with headache (10 of 10), fever (9 of 10), eosinophilia (9 of 10), and cough (8 of 10) three to seven weeks after the exposure.