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More than 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, the silver bullet against HIV still looks depressingly out of reach. As scientists, activists and health officials prepare for the International AIDS Society's biennial meeting set to open in Mexico City this Sunday, hopes for progress toward a vaccine have crumbled amid disappointing scientific results and scrapped clinical trials.read more

Same strain of West Nile Virus bacteria has been found in patients from several states. Source has not been identified, but illnesses may be linked to consumption of beef products.The Massachusetts Department of Public health (DPH) announced today that West Nile Virus (WNV) has been found in mosquitoes in the communities of Merrimac, Abington, Worcester, Springfield, Chicopee, Fall River, Somerset and Dedham. West Nile Virus has also been found in a blue jay in Boston.read more

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Playing a specially designed video game can help adolescents and young adult cancer patients adhere more closely to their prescribed treatment, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have approved six versions of the influenza vaccine to help combat the virus during the 2008-2009 flu season later this year.

A student aims to raise awareness of a condition which could paralyse her if she laughs.

As in every category, with health books, a strong platform is no guarantee of success, but it's a good start.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In addition to conventional treatments aimed at improving survival, most cancer patients use 'complementary methods' (CMs) to relieve symptoms and side effects and increase overall wellness, according to findings from a large study.

Health insurers have access to a 'powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health 'credit report' drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans,' the Washington Post reports.

Nonsmokers accounted for two-thirds of the reduction in heart-disease hospitalizations that occurred after Scotland banned public smoking, a new study shows.

Commonly used cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins may protect against dementia and memory loss.'After accounting for other key predictors of dementia, we found that statin users were about half as likely to develop dementia as those who did not take them,' said study author Mary N. Haan, DrPH, with the University of Michigan School of Public health in Ann Arbor.read more