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'She is superbly qualified to deal with emergencies like the one we have been living through,' said Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health who was [Margaret Chan]'s chief rival when she won the top WHO post in 2006. { SB 'She is the first director-general who has been able to wield these new powers,' said Dr. David L. Heymann, who recently left the organization to become chairman of the Health Protection Agency in Britain. In her announcement on April 29, Chan made it clear that she alone had decided to raise the pandemic alert. 'With any new disease, it's difficult to understand the full picture,' she said. 'One has to be modest to understand that we are competing against an enemy, the virus. And trying to understand it and reduce the anxiety of the world and reduce the suffering of people, that's not easy.'

'It surprised me and my Mexican colleagues, because the textbooks say that in an influenza outbreak the predictive value of fever and cough is 90 percent,' Dr. [Richard P. Wenzel] said by telephone from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he is chairman of the department of internal medicine. Dr. Wenzel said he had urged his Mexican colleagues to test the stools for the presence of the swine virus, formally named A(H1N1). 'If the A(H1N1) virus goes from person to person, and there is virus in the stool, infection control will be much more difficult,' particularly if it spreads in poor countries, he said

While the world awaits findings from new AIDS prevention trials, millions of people are becoming infected because governments are overlooking studies showing that behavior modification works, AIDS experts said at the 17th International AIDS conference here

He told Tom Brokaw of NBC several weeks ago, for example, that he 'had stopped' but that 'there are times where I've fallen off the wagon.' He promised to obey the no-smoking rules in the White House, but whether that meant he would be ducking out the back door for a smoke is not known. His transition team declined to answer any questions about his smoking, past or present, or his efforts to quit. In a letter given to reporters before the election, [Barack Obama]'s doctor described his smoking history as 'intermittent,' and said he had quit several times and was using Nicorette gum, a form of nicotine replacement, 'with success.' 'If nicotine is harmful, it is a minuscule risk compared to cigarette smoking,' [Neal L. Benowitz] said. 'If people want to continue using gum or patches, and not cigarettes, their health will be enhanced.'

In the study, all the men and women agreed in writing to participate after they were informed about other ways to prevent HIV infection, wound care and abstention from sex after the surgical circumcision. The men were offered free condoms and the couples were counseled and tested for HIV. There were 1,015 HIV-infected men who agreed to having circumcision immediately or waiting two years for purposes of a scientific control group. The timing was chosen at random, researchers said

Another plenary speaker, Dr. Bruno Spire, the president of AIDES, a nongovernmental group in France, also called for improving laws and policies to combat stigma and discrimination against groups most vulnerable to H.I.V., typically gay and bisexual men, injecting drug users and sex workers

A German virologist, Harald zur Hausen, will receive half the award for his discovery of HPV, the human papilloma virus, according to the announcement made Monday by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which selects the winners of the medical prize. The discovery led to development of a vaccine against cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women. Zur Hausen, of the University of Heidelberg, was cited for discovering the first HPV type 16, in 1983, from biopsies of women who had cervical cancer. A year later, zur Hausen cloned HPV 16 and another type, 18. The two HPV types are consistently found in about 70 percent of cervical cancer biopsies throughout the world, the institute said

''We can say we have a culprit with the smoking gun at the scene of the crime, but that still doesn't mean he's guilty,'' Dr. [Patrick S. Moore] said in a telephone interview. ''We have a long way to go to prove that this agent is really the cause,'' he said. ''But the fact that the virus is so strongly associated with the tumor is at least a very good bet that it is playing an important role.'' ''It is not every day,'' Dr. [Anthony S. Fauci] said, ''that you have some pretty compelling molecular proof that a virus is associated, likely causally, with development of a particular cancerous process.''

The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from his left temple to a key lymph node in his neck; a preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not. In 1999, during McCain's first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history - 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a U.S. Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war.