health - "national hiv"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gels aimed at helping women protect themselves from the AIDS virus may end up helping men as much or more, researchers predicted on Monday.

Using mouse embryonic stem cells, researchers at the national cancer Institute (NCI), part of the national Institutes of health, have developed a new method to evaluate which mutations, or changes, in a gene known to increase breast cancer susceptibility, may lead to cancer. The new test, called a functional assay, is more comprehensive and reliable than most current methods.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven national Laboratory have devised a simple, fast method for adding a radioactive 'tag' to formaldehyde, a common organic chemical.

Gels aimed at helping women protect themselves from the AIDS virus may end up helping men as much or more, researchers predicted on Monday.

A new study, supported by the national Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the national Institutes of health (NIH), aims to learn more about the secrets to long healthy life, and investigators are seeking long-lived families to help study this important question.

Elizabeth Pisani likes talking about sex. She says that she and most other people enjoy having sex, too.

(Corrects Lung cancer Alliance to national Lung Cancer Partnership in 11th paragraph)

Using mouse embryonic stem cells, researchers at the national cancer Institute (NCI), part of the national Institutes of health, have developed a new method to evaluate which mutations, or changes, in a gene known to increase breast cancer susceptibility, may lead to cancer.

What's the right thing to say to someone with cancer? Dr. Bernadine Healy, former chief of the national Institutes of health and herself a brain cancer survivor, says there's such a thing as cancer etiquette. 'I found as a patient, sometimes people are awkward and they'll say the strangest things to you,' said Healy. Her advice: Put yourself in their shoes.

For the second time in three years, a Wisconsin teenager claims a business discriminated against her because she is hiv-positive. In a federal lawsuit filed in Madison Friday, 19-year-old Korrin ... Last Modified: August 19, 2005, 7:56 pm