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India has managed to reduce the rate of hiv transmission in some states through increased awareness, resources and legislation, according to a report released Monday by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ...

MIAMI. - The Atlantic hurricane season's second depression today became Tropical Storm Bertha, located southeast of Cape Verde Islands, said the United States national Hurricane Center (NCH). It's ma...

The fourth edition of the British national Formulary for Children (BNFC) arms health professionals with the information they need to tackle recent controversial health concerns in young people, including rising rates of teenage pregnancy and the increasing incidence of sexually transmitted infections.

New HIV/AIDS diagnoses among adults ages 50 and older in Georgia has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, according to recent data from the state Department of Human Resources ' Division of Public health , the ...

In the five years after their diagnosis, people living with hiv in developed countries and receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy are no more likely to die than hiv-negative people, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters reports (Kahn, Reuters, 7/1).

Main Category: hiv / AIDS Also Included In: Aid / Disasters Article Date: 02 Jul 2008 product RED on Monday announced that it is launching a digital music service that will give half of the money collected from ...

Scientists have found that the compound resveratrol slows age-related deterioration and functional decline of mice on a standard diet, but does not increase longevity when started at middle age. This study, conducted and supported in part by the national Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the national Institutes of health, is a follow-up to 2006 findings that resveratrol improves health and longevity of overweight, aged mice.

The number of hiv-positive women in Belarus who are forgoing abortions is increasing, Svyatlana Shylava, chief ob-gyn for the country's Ministry of health, said on Tuesday, BelaPAN reports.read more

The Dallas Morning News recently examined a two-day program that aims to address the 'discrimination, cultural and economic barriers, and lingering distrust of the health care system' that contributes to blacks' minimal use of end-of-life care. According to 2006 data from the national Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, less than 9% of hospice patients are black.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- In developing countrieswhere breast-feeding is a necessity, and hiv is rampant, the risk ofdisease transmission through breast milk might be reduced if infants werefirst fed a freeze-dried formula full of good bacteria that could captureand potentially destroy the deadly virus.