health - "medicine"

The area's second MedDrop anticipates collecting thousands of unused medications this Saturday.

It is safe to perform circumcision on HIV-infected men if the diseaseis not in its advanced stage, according to an article released on June2, 2008 in the open access journal PLoS medicine.One of the major forms of transmission of HIV in Africa is through sexwithout a condom.

In children who drink 100% fruit juice regularly there is noincreased risk of being overweight in comparison to their peers who donot, according to a report released on June 2, 2008 in the Archivesof Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine, one of theJAMA/Archives journals. The obesity levels in the United States, not just in adults but also inchildren, have reached record highs, and this phenomenon is oftenreferred to as an 'obesity epidemic.

Binge eating and purging can occur in boys and girls at a variety ofages, but the risk factors for these behaviors largely vary by agegroup and gender, according to an article released on June 02, 2008 inthe Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine,one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Text messages can help teenagers remember to take their medicines on time

BEIJING (AP) -- Six people died after being injected with a human antibody in eastern China, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday, the latest case of deaths caused by suspect medicine....

Michel Lotrowska, a Brazil representative for Medecins Sans Frontieres \' Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines , said that an estimated 23,400 people in Brazil use Kaletra, making it the ... Last Modified: August 19, 2005, 5:56 pm

significant number of adverse effects and several deaths, leading the FDA to recommend against their use for children less than two years old. Despite these concerns about safety and efficacy, there has been little research on patterns of cough and cold medicine use in very young children. Now, a new study from the Emergency medicine Network (www.emnet-usa.org) led by Katherine O'Donnell, M.D. of Children's Hospital Boston reveals important new statistics about medicine use in children under the age of two........

A unique study by Indiana University researchers found that physical activity throughout the day -- simply moving -- is related to positive feelings, but they found no similar relationship between physical activity and negative moods.'In the study, if people are more active, they tend to report a more positive mood,' said Bryan McCormick, associate professor in IU Bloomington's School of health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Interrupting a signaling pathway in certain immune system cells in laboratory mice had the opposite effect researchers expected but opened the possibility of a new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease, according to an article in the journal Nature medicine.The intervention targets the sticky plaque buildup that occurs in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, using immune system cells (macrophages) from outside the brain.