health - "national hiv"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm as it moved inland over Texas after drenching the Texas-Mexico coast with heavy rains, the national Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Alan Johnson calls for a 'national movement' to tackle obesity and warns against 'vilifying the extremely fat'.

Methadone treatment retains its share of detractors in most parts of the world, but criticism of the treatment for opiate addiction is perhaps most intense in Russia.

The Tulsa World on Sunday examined a short documentary film about incarcerated women in Oklahoma and a peer education program that teaches them about hiv prevention and other social issues. The

The health Protection Agency has set up a new centre to study the possible health effects of human exposure to nanoparticles. The national Nanotoxicology Research Centre (NNRC) is being developed at the Agency's Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE) at Chilton in Oxfordshire. The Agency is collaborating with universities and the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Toxicology Unit to develop the centre and its research programme.read more

Singapore's Ministry of health recently called on more private general practitioners in the country to provide anonymous rapid hiv tests, which currently are available only at two clinics, the Straits Times reports.

Though Hispanics make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population, they represented 22 percent of new hiv and AIDS diagnoses tallied by federal officials in 2006.

Programs that provide access to no-cost antiretroviral drugs have had a significant impact on people living with HIV/AIDS, but they also should take into account the effects of poverty and hunger, according to a report recently released by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, PlusNews reports.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson will tonight call for a national movement to tackle the growing problem of obesity. In a major speech on public health the Secretary of State for Health will outline the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and argue that our strategy to combat obesity will only succeed if every part of our society recognises the problem and joins together to takes steps to address it.