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TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Too few teenage boys at risk for HIV infection are tested for the AIDS-causing virus in the United States, researchers say. And this contributes to the growing epidemic of undiagnosed HIV in the nation. Close to 15% of HIV infections in the United States are undiagnosed, but the undiagnosed rate is more than 3.5 times higher (51%) among 13- to 24-year-olds, according to the study authors. "Doctors -- pediatricians in particular -- need to be having more frank and open conversations with their male teenage patients," said study co-author Brian Mustanski. He's director of the Northwestern University School of Medicine Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. "If parents ask their teen's provider to talk about sexual...

TUESDAY, Feb. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- More than 1,000 deaths and close to 43,000 illnesses have now been confirmed in the coronavirus outbreak that continues to rage in China, while a 13th U.S. case was reported late Monday. Those totals far exceed the toll of the 2003 SARS outbreak, in which 8,098 were infected and 774 died worldwide, the Associated Press reported. The latest American case involved one of the hundreds of evacuees who were sent to four military bases and quarantined in the past two weeks. That patient is now in isolation in a hospital near March Air Reserve Base in San Diego, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, the first group of 195 evacuees, who were flown out of Wuhan, China, on Jan. 29, have been cleared from their quarantine, the AP reported. More...

MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In the midst of a U.S. epidemic of opioid abuse, knowing how to quickly administer the anti-overdose drug naloxone could save a life. Now, research finds that delivering naloxone via nasal spray could be the quickest and easiest of three methods of administration. "Our goal was to see if there was a method that was the most intuitive," said William Eggleston, a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Binghamton University, State University of New York. The antidote may eventually be available everywhere without a prescription, but right now little is known about the ability of people in the general population to administer it. The study included untrained people who were asked to administer naloxone (commonly known as Narcan)...

MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Women who receive general anesthesia during a cesarean section delivery are at higher risk of severe postpartum depression that requires hospitalization, as well as self-inflicted harm and suicidal thoughts, a new study finds. Researchers from Columbia University analyzed more than 428,000 discharge records of women who delivered by C-section in New York state hospitals between 2006 and 2013. Eight percent had general anesthesia. In all, 1,158 women (3%) had to be hospitalized for severe postpartum depression. Of those, 60% were diagnosed at readmission, about 164 days after their initial discharge. Compared with local anesthesia, general anesthesia was associated with a 54% increased odds of postpartum depression, and a 91% higher risk of...