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HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

...dibly low,' he said. 'In Australia the bulk of the epidemic is gay men.' Meanwhile Justice Michael Kirby,a prominent Australian judge, told a HIV focused conference in Auckland early this week that the Pacific region no longer had the luxury of 'living in denial'. He urged Pacific leaders and policy mak...

HIV Experts Criticize Australian PM's Suggestion for Ban on Entry of HIV-infected

...dibly low," he said. "In Australia the bulk of the epidemic is gay men." Meanwhile Justice Michael Kirby,a prominent Australian judge, told a HIV focused conference in Auckland early this week that the Pacific region no longer had the luxury of "living in denial". He urged Pacific leaders and policy maker...

Elderly Population on Rise in India, China

...me years, said Chatterji, noting that the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a key factor in this trend. Source-IANS/B...

India to Hike Free Treatments in Fight Against AIDS

... raised. The goal is to "to halt and reverse the epidemic in five years" at a cost of Rs.115 billion ($2 bil...h prevalence' areas and 59 districts are where the epidemic is concentrated. At least 278 districts are in group C where increased presence of vulnerable popu...

'Invest in Health, Build a Safer Future': World Health Day

...n influenza, new variants of the bacterium causing epidemic cholera, microbes responsible forLegionnaire's disease and meningitis. These disease outbreaks are historically unprecedented and are a far greater threat today than they were three decades ago. They maim the existing global economy and stre...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pledges $500M To Fund Anti-Obesity Programs

... this epidemic," Lavizzo-Mourey said, adding, "The epidemic of obesity in children is causing kids to have adult diseases. And those adult diseases have serious consequences and give the potential for having a sicker adulthood and shorter life". According to the New York Times, the RWJF money represents "on...

Study Suggests Some Drug Resistance to Influenza B Medications

...common antiviral drugs during a recent influenza B epidemic in Japan showed the development of viruses with pa...004-2005, an influenza B virus caused a widespread epidemic in Japan, creating an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors. The resea...

500 Million US Dollars to Fight Childhood Obesity

...ever tried by private philanthropy. “This is an epidemic that is going to cost the country in terms of morbidity and mortality and economically,” said Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the foundation’s president and chief executive. “The younger generation is going to live sicker and die younger than their paren...

Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids

...ts last set of recommendations, before the obesity epidemic hit with full force," says Matthew Gillman, MD, associate professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and senior author of the study. "Now, women are coming into pregnancy at higher weights and likely gaining excessively more than t...

Hormone-based Heart Pill to Control High Blood Pressure

...ical focus for therapies as kidney failure becomes epidemic in the 21st century, and diseases of both heart and kidney link the health of the two organ systems. Heart Hormone Pill for High Blood PressureHeart disease continues to be a leading cause of death and disability in Western countries, and kidney di...

Obese Aussies Get Big Ambulances

Obesity in Australia seems to be reaching epidemic proportions, forcing changes in many aspects of that country's infrastructure//. Its health officials are now revamping their fleet of ambulances to cope with a sharp rise in overweight patients. Super-sized vehicles have been introduced and new a...

Indian Pharma Authorized to Market New Anti-TB Drugs

...at the drug-resistant strains could trigger off an epidemic of uncontrollable proportions, it has been noted. GPL...

UN Secretary Emphasize Action Against Tuberculosis

...ch threatens to derail efforts to bring the global epidemic of ordinary TB under control. "To highlight the grave public health threat and the need for a stepped up response, I have joined many other world leaders in signing the 'Call to Stop TB'," Ban said Friday. "I hope that more will do the same." "B...

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

...WHO) has claimed that the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has levelled off for the first time since it declared TB a public health emergency in 1993. // The Global Tuberculosis Control Report released today, two days before the world TB day, says that the percentage of the world's population struck by TB ...

Doctor's AIDS Documentary Focus on Stigma and Discrimination

...V positive children, he added. "Can we stop this epidemic with condoms? Can we stop it with antiretrovirals? Can we stop this epidemic with pamphlets only?" he asked. "My main objective in 2004 was not to make a documentary, but to r...

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

...thcare authorities in Assam Wednesday warned of an epidemic if parents do not get their children immunized against the fatal Japanese encephalitis//, which claimed 119 lives in the state last year. "Children are vulnerable to the disease and unless parents get their wards immunized against Japanese encephal...

Hypertension, Diabetes and Obesity, a Deadly Trio

... number of children and adolescents. Obesity is an epidemic that is spreading worldwide, cutting across age groups, it is pointed out. While no single treatment for the metabolic syndrome available, lifestyle modification could be a key strategy to combat it, experts say. GPL...

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Spread of Respiratory Infections in Hospitals

The 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China has lessons to teach hospitals on how to prevent the spread of other respiratory diseases// , according to new research appearing in the April 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online. Hospitals were epicenters ...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

...and Godrej in 2004, seeking to prevent an HIV/AIDS epidemic by educating the public and reducing stigma and discrimination through a mass media campaign and societal programmes. Source-IANS...

Asia- Facing a Health Doom After a Wealth Boom

...o diabetes risks. The fear that diabetes may reach epidemic proportions is not totally unfounded. The magnitude of the issue is best described in the statement made by Dr Shirine Boardman, a diabetes expert at Warwick, who said, “There is more diabetes than AIDS. It will take over as the main health proble...

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