HIV type affects disease progress
A study has suggested that the type of HIV a person has predicts how quickly they could die from Aids. US researchers studied people in Uganda, and found HIV was more likely to progress rapidly in people with subtype D than in those with subtype A. Most people in the UK and other western countries...
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Option of Vanity...the appeal of cosmetic surgery
Option of Vanity: The Appeal of Cosmetic Surgery Americans believe in what Ponce de Leon discovered in 1513 in St. Augustine, Florida, the fountain of youth. Today it is disguised as cosmetic surgery. Research shows that in 2003 cosmetic procedures have increased to nearly 8.5 million according to...
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How Sweet it Is
It’s not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than man.” Miranda Ingram How Sweet it Is Everywhere you look you read something about the value of chocolate, but not just any chocolate, the rage centers...
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Scientists synthesising a malaria drug
Malaria infects as many as 500 million people a year, and kills more than 1.5 million, mainly in Africa and Asia. US researchers have created a yeast which can churn out large quantities of a related chemical, which can be easily converted into the drug. Writing in Nature, they say their work may...
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Fourth death caused by bird flu in Egypt
In Egypt the fourth person has died after being infected with bird flu. There have so far been 12 reported cases of human bird flu in Egypt. Around the world, more than 100 people have died from the H5N1 strain of the disease since 2003 - the majority of them in Asia. The victim, an 18-year-old...
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Antibiotics could treat asthma
Asthma affects 5.2m people in the UK and there is no cure for this condition but its symptoms could be eased by taking steroids. The international study of 278 patients suggests an antibiotic called Telithromycin that can reduce symptoms of asthma and improve lung function. Patients in 70...
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Reverse heart transplant
Twelve-year-old Hannah Clark is believed to have become the first British patient to have her heart transplant reversed. Hannah had a condition known as cardiomyopathy. This is a serious disease of the heart muscle, which causes the organ to expand in size to try to compensate for the fact that its...
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Yellow oleander seed poisonous and may lead to suicide
Sri Lanka has been suffering from a growing epidemic of suicide attempts. The poison of choice is the seed of the Yellow Oleander tree. Michael Eddleston, a British doctor, has spent much of the past ten years in Sri Lanka and said it is becoming the suicide capital of the world. The Yellow...
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Rash and bumps on breast? Normal?
Hey there! I'm 16 years old and I have a question about.. my own body, basically. I tried looking up information on my breast problem on other site sources, but I haven't gotten a straightforward answer of what my symptoms could be related to. I'm afraid to ask my mom (We're not very close, I feel...
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“Near death” has biological basis
The researchers suggest that “near death” experiences have a biological explanation rather than a spiritual one, as the same parts of the brain are activated when people dream as in near death experiences. The study compared 55 people with such experiences with the ones who had never had them....
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