New WHO and UN HIV treatment target – 3 Mio. for this year
The World Health Organization has vowed to be committed to the United Nations goal of giving anti-HIV therapy to 3 million patients around the world. UN body is unlikely to achieve the goal by the year-end deadline but vowed to continue fighting the disease by administering antiretroviral therapy...
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Lose weight with the device that fakes satiety
British company named Transneuronix created a matchbox-sized device which can be implanted into the abdomen with linked electrodes in the stomach wall. This device is made to fools the brain by obese people and let them thinking they are satiate. This will people with obesity issue to eat lesser and...
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More intervention for Migraine Sufferers
Hundred Millions of people world wide suffer from headaches and migraines daily. Alone in USA there’s more then 10 millions migraine sufferers. This study comes from team of headache specialists led by Stephen D. Silberstein, director of the headache center at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson...
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Doctor guilty of taking children's organs
At the centre of a British hospital one Dutch doctor named penis van Velzen, has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct for removing organs from the bodies of over 850 dead children without parental consent. A 2001 government report into the scandal, which shocked Britain with its...
Strokes more common in women than in men
Last national statistics tell that strokes affect more women then man. Strokes affect women in significant numbers and are gaining more attention from physicians and researchers, who are studying gender differences in symptoms that could improve treatment. Overall, stroke is the country's third...
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First West Nile case in Kansas this year
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Thursday that a 51-year-old in Douglas County had symptoms of West Nile virus. It is a virus of the genus Flavivirus antigenically closely related to Murray Valley virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, and Japanese encephalitis virus, that causes...
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Drinking during pregnancy increase infection risk for baby
Few days ago new study suggests mothers who drink during pregnancy to quit drinking alcohol because of high infection risk for their newborns. Theresa Gauthier, an assistant professor of pediatrics and attending neonatologist at Emory University, in Atlanta, said that excessive alcohol use,...
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Exposing to sun may provide prostate protection
A new study showed that a man exposed to sun are less likely to get prostate cancer than their less tanned one. However, there’s another problem and that’s skin cancer. The greater a person's lifetime sun exposure, the greater a person's risk of skin cancer. The main arguments for this study are...
The death toll from the bad air is rising
Londoners labouring reported 5,800 people will die prematurely because of smog this year at a cost of a billion dollars in health care and lost productivity. That's three times more than estimated in a 2000 study. And if air quality doesn't improve, the medical association warns the annual death...
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Smokers and Obese individuals are biologically older then ot
This sounds very logical to me. If you smoke or are obese you are most likely biologically older than other slim non-smoking individuals, because we all know that obesity and smoking are important risk factors for many age-related diseases. Tim Spector (St. Thomas' Hospital, UK) and colleagues in...
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