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Health

WHO: New Molecular Test to Detect TB Faster Gives Sufferers Hope

WHO: New Molecular Test to Detect TB Faster Gives Sufferers Hope

The World Health Organization unveiled on Monday a new diagnostic test that will give doctors the...
» read full story July 01st, 2008 - 12:07

June 27 - National HIV Testing Day

Many health centers around the country have offered Friday, June 27, free HIV test for people who...
» read full story June 28th, 2008 - 20:24
National HIV Testing Day – HIV Tests for All Bronx Residents

National HIV Testing Day – HIV Tests for All Bronx Residents

As today is the National HIV Testing Day, the New York City authorities are offering free HIV tests...
» read full story June 27th, 2008 - 16:11
CDC: Young Gay Men Face Highest HIV Rates, 12 Percent

CDC: Young Gay Men Face Highest HIV Rates, 12 Percent

A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in this week’s issue...
» read full story June 27th, 2008 - 13:40
HIV Cases Skyrocket among Young Gay Men

HIV Cases Skyrocket among Young Gay Men

A new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that between 2001 and 2006...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 23:51
Survey: New Yorkers Still Not Having Safe Sex

Survey: New Yorkers Still Not Having Safe Sex

The New York City Health Department’s Bureau of Epidemiology Services released worrisome data...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 11:37
Hundreds of New York People Given False HIV Test Results

Hundreds of New York People Given False HIV Test Results

Hundreds of people taking HIV tests at New York clinics between November 2007 and April of this...
» read full story June 23rd, 2008 - 12:28
Treating Herpes with Aciclovir No Good in Preventing HIV

Treating Herpes with Aciclovir No Good in Preventing HIV

A study paid for by the U.S.’ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, other U.S....
» read full story June 20th, 2008 - 16:14
St. John’s Wort Not Efficient for ADHD

St. John’s Wort Not Efficient for ADHD

St. John’s wort is no better than a placebo in treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder,...
» read full story June 11th, 2008 - 13:02
Genital Herpes Affects 26 Percent Of NYC Population

Genital Herpes Affects 26 Percent Of NYC Population

The Department Of Health announced that more than one fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 01:23
UN: Rates of AIDS Infections and Deaths Going Down

UN: Rates of AIDS Infections and Deaths Going Down

For the first time since AIDS was identified in the mid-1980, the United Nations says the numbers...
» read full story June 08th, 2008 - 16:16
LifeCycle Raises Money for AIDS Groups

LifeCycle Raises Money for AIDS Groups

This year's LifeCycle promises to be biggest ever, as about 2,500 cyclists left the San Francisco...
» read full story June 02nd, 2008 - 20:38

Gay-Rights Group Protests Against HIV-Positive Man’s Sentence

A gay-rights group in Dallas is protesting against the sentence given to a HIV-positive man for...
» read full story May 18th, 2008 - 22:24

Death Gap Increasing In US, Study Concludes

A new study published in the May 14 issue of PLoS ONE concluded that the gap in overall death...
» read full story May 14th, 2008 - 23:04
Investigation at Nevada Clinic Traces 77 More Hepatitis Cases

Investigation at Nevada Clinic Traces 77 More Hepatitis Cases

At the end of February, eight people who underwent procedures at the Endoscopy Center of Southern...
» read full story May 09th, 2008 - 15:57
Last Year Brought More Cases of HIV Infections in Singapore

Last Year Brought More Cases of HIV Infections in Singapore

The number of HIV cases in Singapore hit a record in 2007 with 422 new infections recorded, the...
» read full story April 30th, 2008 - 12:51
Alligator Blood May Help Fight MRSA

Alligator Blood May Help Fight MRSA

Recent studies revealed that alligator blood may hold the key to fighting antibiotic-resistant...
» read full story April 08th, 2008 - 00:47
Advocate for AIDS Awareness and Education Autum Aquino Dies

Advocate for AIDS Awareness and Education Autum Aquino Dies

Autum Aquino, who was nationally recognized through her early advocacy for AIDS awareness and...
» read full story April 07th, 2008 - 16:23
House Votes to Expand Global AIDS Funds with $20 Billion

House Votes to Expand Global AIDS Funds with $20 Billion

The House of Representatives, Wednesday, overwhelmingly voted to expand a popular program aimed at...
» read full story April 03rd, 2008 - 14:19
AIDS Drugs Ziagen and Videx May Increase Heart Attack Risk

AIDS Drugs Ziagen and Videx May Increase Heart Attack Risk

European researchers found that the anti-retroviral Ziagen (also known as Abacavir), included as...
» read full story April 02nd, 2008 - 10:25
Summit on AIDS Vaccine Questions the Future of AIDS Research

Summit on AIDS Vaccine Questions the Future of AIDS Research

The recent failure of the most promising HIV vaccine prompted scientists’ concern at the Summit...
» read full story March 26th, 2008 - 13:14
WHO Concerned over Slow Progress in Fighting Tuberculosis

WHO Concerned over Slow Progress in Fighting Tuberculosis

The fight against the worldwide tuberculosis epidemic slightly slowed in 2006, the most recent...
» read full story March 18th, 2008 - 10:30
City Officials Shut Las Vegas Clinic over Malpractice

City Officials Shut Las Vegas Clinic over Malpractice

The City of Las Vegas has ordered the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada to close its doors...
» read full story March 03rd, 2008 - 10:40
Nevada Health District: Nearly 40,000 at Risk of Hepatitis C

Nevada Health District: Nearly 40,000 at Risk of Hepatitis C

Southern Nevada Health District officials are recommending nearly 40,000 people be tested for all...
» read full story February 28th, 2008 - 12:21
Study: Gel Using Anti-HIV Drug, Tenofovir Proves Safe for Women

Study: Gel Using Anti-HIV Drug, Tenofovir Proves Safe for Women

A gel that uses popular anti-HIV drug, Tenofovir proved to be safe for women to use on a daily...
» read full story February 27th, 2008 - 14:22
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Spreading Fast

Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Spreading Fast

The World Health Organization warned that drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading fast with...
» read full story February 26th, 2008 - 22:23
Microbicide Study Sabotaged By Low Use

Microbicide Study Sabotaged By Low Use

An African study on the effectiveness of an anti-AIDS gel for women, that initially appeared to be...
» read full story February 18th, 2008 - 17:31
Official NYC Condom Gets Makeover for Valentine's Day

Official NYC Condom Gets Makeover for Valentine's Day

“Get some” free NYC condoms on this special lovers’ day – February 14...
» read full story February 14th, 2008 - 11:16
New Advance in Understanding HIV

New Advance in Understanding HIV

Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the...
» read full story February 11th, 2008 - 21:05
Pre-Chewing Babies’ Food Linked to HIV Transmission

Pre-Chewing Babies’ Food Linked to HIV Transmission

The AIDS virus can be transmitted by a mother pre-chewing the food for his baby, a practice that...
» read full story February 07th, 2008 - 11:12
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Specials

Head of UN Program on HIV/AIDS, Peter Piot Withdrawing

Head of UN Program on HIV/AIDS, Peter Piot Withdrawing

Peter Piot, who has been with the United Nations in the fight against HIV/AIDS for 13 years, will...
» read full story June 11th, 2008 - 15:31
UN: More Action Is Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide

UN: More Action Is Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide

Despite global efforts to fight AIDS, the number of people who get infected is far outpacing the...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 14:06
Malaysia Calls for Women to Carry Condoms

Malaysia Calls for Women to Carry Condoms

As the number of women contracting HIV in Malaysia is on the rise, the country’s Health Minister,...
» read full story June 02nd, 2008 - 16:26
Sentence in the Case of HIV-Positive Man Contested by Gay Group

Sentence in the Case of HIV-Positive Man Contested by Gay Group

A court decision to sentence an HIV-positive man who spit at a police officer to 35 years in...
» read full story May 19th, 2008 - 12:18
Spitting Gets HIV-Positive Man 35 Years in Prison

Spitting Gets HIV-Positive Man 35 Years in Prison

An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for spitting in the mouth and...
» read full story May 16th, 2008 - 15:59
Death Gap Expands between Educated and Less Educated in the US

Death Gap Expands between Educated and Less Educated in the US

Being educated could boost your chances to live longer new research suggests. American...
» read full story May 15th, 2008 - 14:46
Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US

Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US

Americans’ life expectancy is stagnating or falling as obesity, high blood pressure, different...
» read full story April 22nd, 2008 - 11:38
Study Reveals Alarming Higher Rates of STDs among Teenage Girls

Study Reveals Alarming Higher Rates of STDs among Teenage Girls

Sexually transmitted diseases seem to be a big problem for most American girls, according to a new...
» read full story March 12th, 2008 - 10:27
Bono and Damien Hirst Rock Sotheby's for Africa

Bono and Damien Hirst Rock Sotheby's for Africa

Rocker-activist Bono and British artist Damien Hirst held a Valentine’s Day auction at...
» read full story February 15th, 2008 - 13:03
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World

UN Chief: Stop Discriminating HIV+ People!

UN Chief: Stop Discriminating HIV+ People!

!In a speech held during a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 19:54

Cincinnati: Homeless Man Gets 10 Years for Raping Sleepwalker

Fifty-three-year-old Dexer Ford was accused of attacking and raping a sleepwalker. On Tuesday...
» read full story May 27th, 2008 - 20:53
Saddam Feared Catching AIDS from Prison Guards

Saddam Feared Catching AIDS from Prison Guards

According to excerpts of Saddam Hussein’s prison writings, the dictator feared catching AIDS or...
» read full story May 06th, 2008 - 17:07
Chinese Activist Jailed

Chinese Activist Jailed

Hu Jia, a 34-year-old human rights activist, was convicted of "inciting subversion of state power...
» read full story April 03rd, 2008 - 15:10
Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
» read full story February 28th, 2008 - 16:31
Bush Asks For Renewal Of AIDS Program

Bush Asks For Renewal Of AIDS Program

U.S. President George W. Bush arrived on Sunday in Tanzania where he made an appeal to the...
» read full story February 18th, 2008 - 17:36
Former RI Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse Is HIV-Positive

Former RI Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse Is HIV-Positive

A former priest accused of sexually abusing at least five minors in two states is HIV positive,...
» read full story February 15th, 2008 - 15:43
Gadhafi Says that Libya is not Linked in Terrorist Acts

Gadhafi Says that Libya is not Linked in Terrorist Acts

In his day two of his trip to France Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said that his government has...
» read full story December 12th, 2007 - 13:48
Navy Chaplain Gets Two Years for Sex Crimes

Navy Chaplain Gets Two Years for Sex Crimes

An HIV-positive chaplain was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty...
» read full story December 07th, 2007 - 13:05
Bush Urges Congress to Approve More Money for AIDS

Bush Urges Congress to Approve More Money for AIDS

President George W. Bush is urging the Congress to approve an additional $30 billion to support...
» read full story December 01st, 2007 - 21:04
Report Shows African Conflicts Cost Nearly $300 Billion

Report Shows African Conflicts Cost Nearly $300 Billion

A study by three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has found that the armed conflicts in Africa...
» read full story October 11th, 2007 - 15:35
Bush Announces New Sanctions Against Myanmar’s Military Regime

Bush Announces New Sanctions Against Myanmar’s Military Regime

The United States will impose new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, President...
» read full story September 25th, 2007 - 18:46

Bulgarian Authorities Investigate Possible Torture of Its Medics in Libya

Bulgarian authorities launched an investigation after the five nurses and Palestinian doctor...
» read full story August 10th, 2007 - 14:37
Libya to Buy French Missiles, Military Equipment

Libya to Buy French Missiles, Military Equipment

Libyan officials confirmed that a 300-million-euros deal between Tripoli and a French company...
» read full story August 03rd, 2007 - 11:18
Bulgaria Rejects Protests Over Medics Pardon

Bulgaria Rejects Protests Over Medics Pardon

The Bulgaria State Prosecutor Boris Velchev said Thursday that the decision of Bulgarian President...
» read full story July 26th, 2007 - 15:24
Sarkozy To Visit Libyan Leader Moammar Gaddafi

Sarkozy To Visit Libyan Leader Moammar Gaddafi

One day after the release of the six Bulgarian medics sentenced to death for allegedly infecting...
» read full story July 25th, 2007 - 18:14
Bulgarian Medics Returns Home And Receives President Pardon

Bulgarian Medics Returns Home And Receives President Pardon

The six Bulgarian medics, five nurses and a doctor, arrived in Bulgaria and received a pardon...
» read full story July 24th, 2007 - 12:28
Sentences for Bulgarian Nurses and Palestinian Doctor Commuted

Sentences for Bulgarian Nurses and Palestinian Doctor Commuted

Libya changed the death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor into life...
» read full story July 17th, 2007 - 22:38

Libya's Supreme Court Confirms Death Sentence for Medics

Libya’s supreme court confirmed Wednesday death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a...
» read full story July 11th, 2007 - 14:47

Bush Supports Caribbean Trade

President George W. Bush met with Caribbean leaders Wednesday and discussed about cooperation in...
» read full story June 21st, 2007 - 15:18
Indian Schools Reject HIV-Positive Children

Indian Schools Reject HIV-Positive Children

In some parts of India, children who are HIV-positive cannot go to school because the parents of...
» read full story June 15th, 2007 - 17:34
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People

Miss China wins Miss World 2007

Miss China wins Miss World 2007

Miss Zhang Zilin, 23, made Chinese thrilled with happiness on Saturday, winning Miss World 2007 at...
» read full story December 02nd, 2007 - 20:09
Richard Gere Wins Humanitarian Marian Anderson Award

Richard Gere Wins Humanitarian Marian Anderson Award

Richard Gere, 58, was honored by Philadelphia on Monday, receiving Marian Anderson Award, for his...
» read full story November 13th, 2007 - 10:34
Obama Criticized By Gay Rights Activists

Obama Criticized By Gay Rights Activists

Senator Barack Obama is being criticized for allowing a gospel singer with controversial views on...
» read full story October 23rd, 2007 - 15:29
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Science

Anthropologist Say Humans Evolve More Rapidly

Anthropologist Say Humans Evolve More Rapidly

A new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks revelead that we...
» read full story December 11th, 2007 - 01:12
The World Community Grid to Support Cancer Research Project

The World Community Grid to Support Cancer Research Project

The World Community Grid represents a web of 795,000 computers than span all over the world....
» read full story November 08th, 2007 - 20:41
The First Malaysian Astronaut Arrives At ISS

The First Malaysian Astronaut Arrives At ISS

The Soyuz capsule TMA-11, carrying the Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, along...
» read full story October 12th, 2007 - 20:50
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