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Some long-term survivors of HIV infection produce rare and extremely potent antibodies that keep the disease from progressing to AIDS, and might point to a way to protect uninfected people from the virus, researchers reported yesterday in the closing hours of the 17th International AIDS Conferenc...

Adolescents who are skilled in interpreting media messages about tobacco may be less likely to smoke and less likely to start smoking in the future, according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers. The report is now online in the American Journal of health Behavior. In this study, researchers assessed the media literacy of more than 1,200 adolescents.

Although rare, children do serve as living solid-organ donors, and these donations raise serious ethical issues. In the clinical report, 'Minors as Living Solid-Organ Donors,' the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) examines the exceptional circumstances under which minors younger than 18 can morally serve as living organ donors. Four of these criteria are suggested by the U.S. Live Organ Donor Consensus group and have the agreement of the AAP.

STSI announced that it has filed its second-quarter financial report on Form 10-Q today with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Gross sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 totaled $16...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted to having had an extramarital affair with a woman he met in a New York City bar in 2006, ABC News reported on Friday.

New insight into key players in iron metabolism has yielded a novel tool for distinguishing among root causes of iron overload or deficiency in humans, the researchers report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters Health) - A new report suggests that only 1 percent of HIV-positive patients worldwide have been screened for tuberculosis, a curable infection that frequently kills those living with the AIDS virus.

Despite the prevalence of depression, and in spite of the range of medications now available, major depression remains a challenging disease to treat. A report in the August 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental health Letter states that only about half of adult patients respond to the first antidepressant they try, with only [...]

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A protein produced by fatcells may play a pivotal role in increasing an older American's risk for aheart attack even if they are losing weight, a new report says.

A new report suggests nearly one in 10 U.S. women who have given birth recently meet the formal criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from childbirth. The discovery comes from a survey, titled “New Mothers Speak Out,” a study commissioned by the not-for-profit maternity care group Childbirth Connection and published in the Wall [...]