Probably 6.5 million South African’s may be HIV-positive
13% of all South African population may be HIV-positive, what is a dramatic increase from last year's estimate. The department of health yesterday said that between 6.29 and 6.57 million South Africans are infected with the HIV. South Africa is now the country with second highest number of...
Can acupuncture Ease Arthritis?
Latest study at Charite University Medical Center in Berlin (Germany) suggests that acupuncture could help cut the pain of arthritis. The researchers followed 300 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. After 8 weeks the patients treated with traditional Chinese acupuncture reported significantly...
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Women feel pain more than men
According the new study from University of Bath scientists, women feel more pain and experience it for a longer period than men. Moreover, women also experience it in more bodily areas, more often and for longer duration compared to men. The explanation is concentrated on biological mechanisms,...
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Slow walking best for obese adults
Good news for obese walkers! Strolling can help obese adults to burn more calories than brisk walking. Moreover it might lower the risk of arthritis and injuries to the joints. After research in Colorado University in Denver, doctoral student Ray Browning and his colleagues studied 20 men and...
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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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