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While public health campaigns remain largely focused on the young, the number of older people...
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Saturday marks the annual National Back HIV/AIDS Awareness DAY, a day meant to encourage...
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Jamal Woolard was just a little known rapper known as Gravy before he was personally selected by...
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No kid under the age of four should be given the controversial cough and cold medicines, the...
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The economic crisis that has hit the United States this year – and that has been looming over our...
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Commonly known as the “bird flu” or “avian flu,” avian influenza is a type of influenza caused by...
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President George W. Bush was honoured on
the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day for his commitment...
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The 1st of December is World AIDS Day. To honour the 20th
anniversary of the first World Aids Day...
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A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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As more and more people suffer from obesity and,
consequently, obesity-related diseases,...
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How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to
be more frequent than ever nowadays....
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Obesity in children is a growing problem
nowadays. Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic in...
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Hundreds of previous studies have shown that obesity comes with
a number of risks, such as heart...
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A study shows that in the past 10 years the rate of people suffering from diabetes has increased...
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Recently, the students at the Normandy High School in St. Louis have been confronting a situation...
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London - It is the job of David Smith to keep on top of his box of index cards marked "serious...
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South
Africa is the country experiencing one of
the most severe AIDS epidemics in the world....
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As obesity increasingly becomes a global health concern,
researchers try to figure out what we can...
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Washington - A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the...
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AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
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In an attempt to reduce the number of obese and overweight
people, large chain restaurants in the...
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Eli Lilly and Co and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc’s diabetes
drug Byetta proved better at reducing...
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Participants at the 17th International AIDS Conference made
a call on the last day of the meeting...
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An estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and
activists were present on Sunday at...
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The Centers for Disease Control has announced that the new cases of HIV infections were...
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Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday their decision to spend $500...
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On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention published the alarming results of...
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People writing down what they eat every day lose on average
twice as much weight as those who...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is testing
cilantro, jalapeno peppers, and Serrano...
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Kids as young as 8 are recommended cholesterol-lowering
drugs if diet alone fails to work in order...
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José Saramago’s 1995 novel “Blindness” portrays the collapse
of a society whose members suffer...
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Jamal Woolard was just a little known rapper known as Gravy before he was personally selected by...
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Well, “Beverly
Hills Chihuahua”
barked louder than its tiny breed would usually permit. And it...
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The National Federation for The Blind was offended at the way blind people were portrayed the...
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“Blindness” may be in danger, as the National Federation of
the Blind in the United
States has...
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Capcom has just announced that Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is in development for the Wii and...
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A Malawi judge has finally approved Madonna’s application to
adopt three-year-old David Banda from...
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GlaxoSmithKline, the United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical, biological, and healthcare company,...
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R&B singer Alicia Keys has apologized to fans in Indonesia
after sponsorship of her upcoming...
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Madonna’s long-unfolding adoption of a two-year-old Malawian boy may take a while longer to...
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Popular social networking site MySpace has recently announced the discovery and deletion of more...
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A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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The 2008 Nobel Prize
for medicine was awarded on Monday. Two French scientists who discovered...
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AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
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People writing down what they eat every day lose on average
twice as much weight as those who...
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A new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
anthropologist John Hawks revelead that we...
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The researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have
found a new cause for obesity. According...
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Singapore has been hit with a dengue fever epidemic that seems to have scared people so badly they...
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Singaporean health authorities warn that the current dengue fever making victims in the country has...
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Washington - The swine flu virus spread to 36 US states with a total of 286 confirmed cases,...
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Beijing - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday urged Japanese...
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Madrid - The Spanish government on Monday called for calm after Europe's first case of swine flu...
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The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 103, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova...
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Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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Britain’s biggest drugs company GlaxoSmithKline and US rival Pfizer announced Thursday...
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When it comes to health insurance things don’t look very good for Americans. According to a...
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According to a study published online Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine, the...
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London - A top medical research journal Friday urged Pope Benedict XVI to retract his...
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Pope Benedict’s statement upon arriving in Cameron that AIDS cannot be overcome by the...
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A study by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard...
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A recent study concluded that older people are more exposed to HIV infection because their sex...
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On Friday, after three days of debate during a health forum, representatives at health...
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Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in the history of the country with almost...
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Fewer than 1 percent of American kids need cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to a new study...
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Unfortunately, flu has made its first victim this season in North Carolina, as health leaders...
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Nowadays HIV/AIDS continues to be a threat to men, women and children to all communities as many...
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China has reported the country’s eighth case of bird flu this year, the most in a single...
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A1C test, also called the HbA1c or glycated hemoglobin test, may be soon used as a tool for...
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The World Health Organization has repeatedly said that more effective tobacco control policies...
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On Sunday, the Chinese Ministry of Health issued a public report that points out that there is a...
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A 16-year-old boy has died of bird flu in central China, becoming the third victim in China in...
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China has been dealing this year with a growing epidemic of the highly contagious and potentially...
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Prevention strategies should be improved in order to reduce transmission of HIV among those...
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UNICEF Executive Director M. Ann Veneman made a three-day visit in Zimbabwe at the end of...
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People suffering from diabetes have to carefully choose their foods in order to prevent gaining...
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Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a very contagious disease that is caused by bacteria and it...
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A new outbreak of the bird flu in Hong Kong shows the
disease still poses a major threat. A World...
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Deaths from overdose of prescription drugs seem to be increasing in the United States, especially...
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Already a high-risk area for contracting HIV and developing AIDS, Nigeria is now facing another...
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Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's influenza epidemic of the new virus A(H1N1) has...
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Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's epidemic of a hitherto-unknown strain of flu...
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Mexico City - The number of deaths in Mexico known to have been caused by the outbreak of a...
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Mexico City - Mexico launched Tuesday a plan to provide more than 1 billion dollars to help...
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Lima - Peru suspended from Thursday all flights to and from Mexico over the ongoing flu...
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Mexico City - A week of measures to combat a flu epidemic - including several cases of swine...
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Mexico City - The number of confirmed swine flu infections in Mexico rose from 26 to 49, although...
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As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Mexico City - The government of Mexico City banned eating in restaurants and ordered gyms, clubs,...
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Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 152, Mexican Health Minister Jose...
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Mexico City - Mexico's entertainment industry, one of the few sectors that continued to defy the...
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China is investigating several suspicious cases involving influenza-like symptoms but has not...
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Mexico City - Mexico on Monday closed schools and universities until May 6 and limited commercial...
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Prevention strategies should be improved in order to reduce transmission of HIV among those...
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Johannesburg - Zimbabwe is short on laughs these days, so short, in fact, that the capital Harare,...
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Cholera is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium...
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Harare - President Robert Mugabe's once indomitable Zanu-PF party gathers on Thursday for its...
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Zimbabwe declared a national health emergency as the cholera epidemic froze the entire health...
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Just days before the World AIDS Day on December 1st, the World Health Organization released a study...
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New Delhi - India
on Thursday banned smoking in public places after a medical study warned...
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In spite of initiatives such as public service campaigns
warning about the risks extra weight...
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The number of people being infected with HIV virus in the US is about 40 percent higher than...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) called on all governments to forbid all sorts of tobacco...
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A Chinese military helicopter with ten injured people aboard plus four crew members crashed on...
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Torrential rains wreaked havoc in Bangladesh, causing floods and landslides that killed 256 people...
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Libya changed the death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor into life...
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Libya’s supreme court confirmed Wednesday death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a...
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Pakistan’s recent severe weather conditions have killed hundreds of people and left thousands...
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Nigeria has filed a $7 billion lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer over clinical trials...
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Mosquito-borne dengue fever raised the death toll to 44 in
the first four months of 2007 in...
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