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A new report published by the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, in collaboration with Help the Aged, calls on Government and public authorities to take action to better protect older people from the future effects of climate change. The report Growing Old in a Changing Climate is the first national report to examine the impact of climate change on an ageing population.

A SCOTTISH hospital facing the closure of an emergency unit should keep part of the service - but some patients will still have to go elsewhere, a report recommended yesterday

The prevalence of hepatitis C infection among HIV-positive gay men attending a large Amsterdam sexual health clinic is 18% and rising, reported Anouk Urbanus at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico ...

UroToday.com - In the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Robert Abouassaly and associates from the Cleveland Clinic reported that the finding of atypia on prostate biopsy is associated with a high likelihood of underlying malignancy, regardless of the number of cores taken at the initial biopsy. The investigators performed this study, because some have suggested that equivocal findings, such as atypia, are due to inadequate prostate sampling at initial biopsy.

More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, according to a University of Michigan study. The pattern of health problems reported by 1,114 women surveyed in 2006 and 2007 is similar to many symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, the controversial condition reported by veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

UroToday.com - In the August 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Firas Ahmed and associates investigated the correlation between certain health risk behaviors and awareness of the PSA test among men residing in California. They hypothesized that men reporting health risk behaviors would have less awareness of the PSA test. The study used the 2003 CHIS, a population based, random digit-dialing telephone survey conducted between August 2003 and February 2004.

Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether a patient will progress rapidly from Stage III melanoma to metastatic Stage IV cancer and death.

UroToday.com - Dr. Arto Salonen and Finnish colleagues compared intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) to continuous androgen deprivation (CAD) in 856 patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer (CaP) treated at 27 clinics in Finland. This report represents an interim analysis of their data. The patients were accrued between 1997 and 2003 and had a life expectancy of at least 12 months.

A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When ...

The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is 40 percent higher than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been reporting each year, according to new figures recently ...