While the rate of HIV/AIDS infection among African Americans has remained roughly stable for more than a decade, blacks still make up more than half of all new diagnoses and account for 49% of people living with HIV/AIDS – and just 12% of the population of the U.S. That rate would have been higher if not for the creation of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), says LaMont Evans, CEO of Healthy Black Communities Inc [3]. When five organizations came together to start NBHAAD in 1999 Full Story...

At my annual check-up, my doctor handed me a sheet explaining the reasons for office fee increases for Medicare Patients. It is worth reporting at length. Medicare fixes the prices for Medicare patients' health care. All office charges for Medicare, including office visit charges, have been set by the Federal government since 1984. In real terms (adjusted for inflation), these fixed prices are less today than they were three decades ago. During the last four years, there have been large decreases in Medicare reimbursements for laboratory services provided in-house by private physicians Full Story.............

DentistryIQ recently had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Yiping Han, a researcher from the Department of Periodontics at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, who reported the first documented link between a mother with pregnancy-associated gingivitis and the death of her fetus. DentistryIQ: Please explain the significance of your lab work involving Fusobacterium nucleatum and preterm labor/stillbirths and the recent case of the 35-year-old mother who delivered a stillborn child in Santa Monica, Calif Full Story.............