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By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke.Being married to a smoker raised the stroke risk by 42 percent in people who have never smoked compared to those married to someone who never smoked, the researchers said.This jumped to 72 percent for former smokers married to a current smoker, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive medicine.

A six-week extended course of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine did not clearly show a reduced risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission among breastfed infants, according to a study published Saturday in the journal Lancet, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, breastfeeding 'presents a life-and-death dilemma' for HIV-positive mothers in developing countries.read more

The risk of potentially devastating tears to an important knee ligament may be reduced in female college soccer players by an alternative warm-up program that focuses on stretching, strengthening, and improving balance and movements, according to a CDC study published online this week in The American Journal of Sports medicine. The program can be done without additional equipment or extensive training that other prevention programs may require.read more

With a twitch of a muscle, the Chinese concave-eared torrent frog brushes off the sounds of thundering rivers, focusing on the one thing that really matters: the siren song of the opposite sex.The males of this rare species are the only animal known to be able to turn a deaf ear to distracting noises while enhancing the calls of their own kind, according to a study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

The results of a new study are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that...

New hiv cases could quadruple over the next 10 years if couples in which one person is HIV-negative and the other is HIV-positive discontinue condom use based on factors such as suppressed viral loads, according to a study published Friday in the journal Lancet, Reuters reports (Tan, Reuters, 7/25).

HIV-positive people in wealthy countries using highly active antiretroviral therapy increased between 1996 and 2005, but a large disparity in life expectancy remains between HIV-positive people on HAART and the general population, according to a study published Friday in the journal Lancet, Reuters reports.For the study, Robert Hogg of the

A new analysis of a 2005 survey of American schoolchildren has identified factors that may be used to help improve School safety. The research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry, gives detailed information about the carrying of guns, blades and clubs. 13,707 students participated in the study, 6,664 (50.5%) were male and 7,193 (49.5%) were females. Overall, 10.2% of males and 2.

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. ('SCT') (TSX VENTURE:SSS) announced that Dr. Allen Davidoff, VP product Development, will be presenting data from the Phase I open labeled, uncontrolled pharmacokinetic study of a single intra-muscular (IM) hCG dose in healthy male volunteers at the IXth World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics being held in Quebec City, Quebec, July 27th - August 1st, 2008.

New, groundbreaking research reveals a drug, discovered at The Institute of cancer Research, could treat up to 80 per cent of patients with aggressive and previously drug resistant prostate cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology . The results of the Phase 1 clinical trial, undertaken by The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden hospital and funded by