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Researchers Discover Genetic Cause For Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Researchers have discovered a novel molecular path that predisposes patients to develop primary biliary cirrhosis, a disease that mainly affects women and slowly destroys their livers. Primary biliary cirrhosis has no known cause.

'Swift Action Driven By Courage Needed' To Remove Ban On Federal Funding For Needle-Exchange Programs, Letter To Editor Says
"The Obama administration"s budget dealt a serious blow to those who support syringe exchange programs to prevent the transmission of HIV, hepatitis C and other infectious diseases," Paola Barahona, senior global health policy analyst for Physicians for Human Rights and founding executive director of Prevention Works!, writes in a Washington Post letter to the editor. She adds, "On the campaign trail, during the transition and in the White House, President Obama has expressed support for removing the federal ban prohibiting the use of federal funds for these programs. But he kept the ban in his budget despite research clearly showing that such programs work."Barahona writes, "Addressing the personal and pubic dangers of injection drug use may not have wide political support, but doing so is an important health and human rights issue with serious public health ramifications." She adds, "As supports of disease prevention policy rooted in science rather than politics or ideology, we have waited too long for "change" that makes sense." Barahona concludes, "We have a bold and courageous leader in President Obama. Swift action driven by courage is needed now to remove this anachronistic ban" (Barahona, Washington Post, 5/17).
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Type 2 Diabetes: An Epidemic Among America's Youth
With the number of children suffering from type 2 diabetes growing at an alarming rate, physicians gathered Saturday to discuss strategies for prevention and treatment of the disease among children and adolescents at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 18th Annual Meeting & Clinical Congress.
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Relief Efforts For Displaced People In Pakistan Barely Coping, Report Says

Despite significant efforts from Pakistani authorities and humanitarian organizations to respond to the world"s largest and fastest displacement of people in more than a decade, relief efforts are barely coping, according to an Oxfam report published on Monday, the International News reports. The report finds that host communities have played a "vital role in preventing a catastrophe," but are struggling with "dwindling res and insufficient help," the International News writes, adding, "The humanitarian situation remains highly volatile as the conflict spreads, triggering new displacements." Oxfam said that many displaced people - especially those in unofficial camps and host communities, which house about 85 percent of people displaced by the situation - have not received adequate water, sanitation, food, healthcare and other basic needs. Neva Khan, country director Oxfam in Pakistan, said a lack of funds has undermined the relief effort. The U.N."s "revised appeal for $543 million is barely a quarter-funded six weeks into the emergency and most of that was given to support the exodus of people fleeing clashes last year," according to Khan, who added that "[a]id agencies are struggling for funds just as the summer monsoons are approaching, which raises the risk of disease." Khan said that "rich states" have failed to adequately respond and that time is running out for "more than two million women, men and children" (International News, 6/16). 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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