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New System May Allow Xenon Use To Protect Brain In Critically Ill Newborns
Breathing xenon gas can help protect the infant brain from damage caused by oxygen deprivation, but the xenon"s high cost and scarcity has precluded its widespread use. A newly developed "closed circuit system" may make xenon feasible, safe, and cost efficient for use in protecting the brains of critically ill infants, according to a study in the August issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.

Enzyme Important In Aging Identified By Scientists At Children's Hospital Of Pittsburgh Of UPMC
The secret to longevity may lie in an enzyme with the ability to promote a robust immune system into old age by maintaining the function of the thymus throughout life, according to researchers studying an "anti-aging" mouse model that lives longer than a typical mouse.
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Report Estimates Significant Impact Of Widespread Circumcision Effort In Botswana
Botswana"s campaign to circumcise about 500,000 men by 2012 will prevent nearly 70,000 new HIV cases by 2025, according to a report published Thursday in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. The government"s national campaign aims to circumcise 460,000 men over the next five years, and the country has begun airing television and radio advertisements to encourage men to be circumcised at local clinics. "Scaling up safe male circumcision has the potential to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana significantly," according to the study. The report puts the estimated cost of the circumcision campaign at about $47 million. A UNAIDS report estimates that the HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Botswana was 43% in 2003, the year that antiretroviral drug access was introduced in the country (AFP/Yahoo! News, 5/28).
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Also In Global Health News: Indonesia To Host AIDS Congress; Smoking Ban In Ghana

Indonesia To Host International Congress On AIDS Indonesia will host the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific region, August 3 - 13 in Bali, organizers of the event announced Wednesday, Xinhua reports. Indonesia was selected to host the congress because it "was one of the first Asian countries to develop a far-sighted national policy that provided legal immunity for people living with HIV to seek medication officially in appointed institutions," according to Xinhua (Xinhua, 6/3). Minister of Health Calls for Tougher Enforcement of Public Smoking Ban in Ghana Ghana"s Minister of Health George Sipa Yankey on Monday called for increased enforcement of the regulations that ban smoking in public spaces to help reduce the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, the New Times reports. "Government in line with its commitment to move Ghana forward strongly supports all earlier directives that sought to ban tobacco use in public places and assures us of our commitment to lead the crusade against the tobacco epidemic," Sipa Yankey said (Baidoo, New Times, 6/2). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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