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(Duke University Medical Center) In one of the first examinations of PSA screening in younger men, a study published by researchers at Duke Medicine's Prostate Center finds that one-fifth of men under age 50 reported undergoing a prostate specific antigen test to detect prostate cancer in the previous year, yet only one in three young black men reported ever having a PSA test in the previous year.

DOCTORS removed a man's healthy lung unnecessarily after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer, it was reported last night.

A new study provides tantalizing evidence that inborn differences may help explain why trauma gives some people bad memories and others the nightmare of post-traumatic stress. Scientists in Germany and the United States have reported evidence linking genes to anxious behavior. The findings appear in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, published by [...]

Low-income and minority women in California are more likely to be in poor health, obese and uninsured than whites and higher-income women, according to a University of California Center for health Policy Research report released on Thursday, the Fresno Bee reports.

Long-term treatment of genital herpes with the drug acyclovir does not reduce the rate of new HIV infections, researchers reported at the International AIDS Conference here last week.

At the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on Wednesday, more than 30 nongovernmental organizations from Spain and Latin America signed a declaration calling on governments in Latin America to increase efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, Xinhua/People's Daily reports.

A new report calls for a nationwide standard on restaurant cleanliness, and for greater access to your favorite restaurant's grade

Navajo Nation Tribal President Joe Shirley on Thursday vetoed a ban on smoking and chewing tobacco in public places on the reservation, the Boston Globe reports (Boston Globe, 8/7). The Navajo Nation Council last week voted 42-27 to approve the smoking ban.

Several newspapers have published opinion pieces this week addressing the XVII International AIDS Conference, the reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a CDC

HIV/AIDS experts at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on Wednesday said they are concerned that former Soviet Union states are facing widespread HIV/AIDS epidemics, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the