AFP - The head of the UN’s children fund has raised concerns over the spread of HIV in Mozambique, saying it was partly fueled by immigrants from Zimbabwe who were selling their bodies to make ends meet.
AP - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
AP - Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow ? like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.
HealthDay - SATURDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Falls are a leading cause
of serious injury and death among elderly people in the United States, and
most of those falls occur in the home, says the American Geriatric Society
(AGS).
AP - When Dr. Michael E. DeBakey pushed forward with his groundbreaking research and maverick approach to medicine a half century ago, heart surgery was a medical marvel. Today, in part because of his contributions, it routinely saves thousands of lives each day. DeBakey, a world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass [...]
HealthDay - SUNDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) — Even though it’s summertime, children shouldn’t be allowed to take a vacation from healthy eating habits, advises Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a pediatrician at Duke University
Medical Center.
“Routines go haywire, and with nothing to do after a few days in the pool, kids head straight for the refrigerator or [...]
A chemically modified form of interferon improves the chances that melanoma patients will survive and have no recurrence of the skin cancer, according to a new report.
Dutch researchers, who published their findings in this week’s edition ofThe Lancet, said their study found long-term treatment with pegylated IFNa2b cut the risk of a recurrence by 15 [...]
Reuters - When children see others in pain, their brains respond as if it were happening to them, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
For the study, the researchers showed 17 children aged 7 to 12 animated images of people experiencing pain while they were undergoing a type of imaging known as functional magnetic resonance imaging or [...]
AP - Drug company sales representatives will have to stop doling out coffee mugs and pens that push their products when they visit doctor’s offices. But they can still sneak in the occasional free lunch. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America announced Thursday that it has revised its conduct code for interacting with health care [...]
AP - The American Medical Association on Thursday issued a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors.
The apology stems from initiatives at the nation’s largest doctors’ group to reduce racial disparities in medicine — from the [...]
