Month: April 2011

Diverse Video Testimonials Help Reach Out to Encourage HIV Testing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:  email, contact@ThePositiveProject.org; or call, Tony Miles or Dawn Shearer, 303-733-0545 Diverse Video Testimonials Help Reach Out to Encourage HIV Testing The Positive Project Offers Video Segments to Help Outreach Efforts during the National AIDS Testing Day (June 27) Denver, April, 2011- The Positive Project encourages AIDS Services Organizations to utilize their …

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How to Fight Insurance Companies that Refuse to Pay for Anal Cancer Procedures

Question: I am looking for any peer-reviewed articles regarding anal cancer screening studies, even with preliminary results, which substantiate the effectiveness of preventive screenings as relates to anal cancer. My insurance will pay for some “emerging or experimental” treatments in areas such as cancer, etc, which look promising but may not yet have produced concrete …

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Facial Lipoatrophy Treatments: Help Us Remove Barriers to Access

 Back to Web version of article By Nelson Vergel April 15, 2011 Sign a petition to improve access to facial lipoatrophy treatments through Medicare — and read on for more information. The road to regaining a healthy look for people affected by HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy has been a long one. Improvements have come, but challenges are …

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General practitioners are effective at increasing the level of physical activity among their inactive patients during the initial six-months of an intervention

Two-Year Longitudinal Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Trial of Physical Activity Promotion by General Practitioners Article Metrics Related Content Comments: 0 To add a note, highlight some text. Hide notes Make a general comment Jump to Abstract Introduction Methods Results Discussion Supporting Information Acknowledgments Author Contributions References Gonzalo Grandes1*, Alvaro Sanchez1, Imanol Montoya1,Ricardo Ortega Sanchez-Pinilla2, Jesús Torcal3, for the PEPAF Group …

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Sign-On to Support an Increase in Medicare Reimbursement for Facial Fillers

April 8, 2011 Sign-On to Support an Increase in Medicare Reimbursement for Facial Fillers A prominent AIDS activist is asking people with HIV and the organizations that serve them to sign on to a letter asking the agency that sets reimbursement rates for Medicare to boost the rate it offers doctors to administer the facial …

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Greedy Gilead Sciences Raises Price Of Top Selling Products

What a nasty time to increase prices. The greedy bastards. They make more money than anyone on HIV. And they are still slow at providing access to the developing world for tenofovir so that people can switch from toxic Zerit and AZT. Shame on them. https://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201104041217dowjonesdjonline000185&title=gilead-sciences-raises-price-of-top-selling-products Gilead Sciences Raises Price Of Top Selling Products By …

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