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More then Four Million New HIV Infections in 2006: UNAIDS

The global AIDS epidemic continues to spiral with 4.3 million new infection...n of personal risk. Even in countries where the epidemic has very high impact, such as Swaziland and South Africa, a large proportion of the population do no...

India warned of Impending AIDS Disaster

...IDS disaster and should get a control over the HIV epidemic by next year or risk seeing it spiral out of control //warned Ashok Alexander, the director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a senior United Nations official. According to Ashok Alexander who directs the $258-million Indian HIV-prevention ...

Holiday Gluttony Can Spell Disaster for Undiagnosed Diabetics

...or those with undiagnosed diabetes. “The obesity epidemic is surging and people don’t realize they’re setting themselves up to develop diabetes. They’re like ticking time bombs,” said Dr. Manisha Chandalia, an endocrinologist at UT Southwestern. “Without treatment, high levels of blood sugars in the body ca...

Scientists Close To Identifying Anti-viral Drug for SARS

.... One reason so many people are surviving the AIDS epidemic is the effectiveness of drugs targeted to the proteinase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).” One way to obtain compounds that bind to a proteinase is via high-throughput screening. Chemical libraries containing tens of thousands of small compou...

Students Fail In Fitness Test In California

...his is a destructive trend that has resulted in an epidemic of childhood obesity and must be reversed.' O'Connell said too many students lead sedentary lives and it was the duty of the physical education instructors to see to it that the children have enough exercise , run and drill to keep fit. This yea...

North Korea Under the Threat of Scarlet Fever

...t fever in North Korea is threatening to become an epidemic despite measures to contain it, a South Korean news report said//. The infectious disease has quickly spread for almost a month despite strict measures, including a travel ban to and from the affected areas, the Yonhap News agency reported Wednesday...

Hope for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

...y ageing demography.' Alzheimer's is turning to an epidemic because people are more successfully reaching old age,' he said. Using a new model of PET scan, doctors at Melbourne's Austin Hospital found one in five people over 65 without any memory problems had early signs of Alzheimer's. They had traces of a...

Diabetes Linked to High Stress Levels

...ologist at Dr. Batra's? , "Diabetes in India is an epidemic disease and early detection of the disease at a young age and awareness about controlled diet and physical exercise is important to manage this epidemic." Dr. Mukesh Batra, Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Batra's Positive Health Clinics added,...

Diabetes- a Threat to Several Indigenous Populations

... every 30 seconds. We are dealing with the biggest epidemic in world history." NLA...

Hundreds dying in northeast from AIDS

...search keeping in line with issues relevant to the epidemic were identified as gaps in the programme (for prev...te access to treatment could further aggravate the epidemic in the northeast. "The response to the epidemic is to have proper access to treatment," said Noble...

India Free From Bird Flu

...06 brought with it avian influenza and a worldwide epidemic brought the poultry revenues crashing down. Poultry exports which were 3.26 billion rupees last financial year ended up at 1.54 billion rupees in March 2006. The disease 'Avian Influenza' has been known to affect humans though the cases of infectio...

Commemoration of World AIDS Day

...ternational day of action against the HIV and AIDS epidemic around the world. The theme of ADRA's for 2006 is, "AIDS can be stopped only when we realize it's everyone's challenge," and it encourages people all over the world to realize that the disease can affects anyone, irrespective of their age, gender, ...

Indian radiologist spearheads cure for osteoarthritis sans surgery

... consumerism have shown osteoarthritis becoming an epidemic in the sub-continent, with at least 15 percent of the over billion-strong Indians suffering from the painful condition. After having successfully treated about 500 people in the age group of 40-75 years and making them walk again without surgery, V...

Equal Opportunities For HIV-Positive Women Urged

...d girls seem to bear disproportionate brunt of the epidemic financially, socially and economically. The survey covered 2,068 HIV households and 6,224 non-HIV households spread over the rural and urban areas of six high prevalence states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur and Naga...

HIV/AIDS Epidemic Scare In Bhutan

...ent HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from assuming epidemic proportions with the nation witnessing a rise in//... setting the stage for potentially large scale HIV epidemic in the country," Kuensel said. The report quoting the Information and Communication Bureau (ICB) of...

Reinfection with Hepatitis C Stopped in drug users

...at if drug users continue to drive the hepatitis C epidemic in developed countries, efforts to control it must include a strategy that addresses this particular population segment. NLA...

Diabetics’ Blood Sugar to be Tracked in New York Cit

...gram said, "We're in the middle of an epidemic, an epidemic of diabetes killing people. It's causing blindness, kidney failure, amputations. We need to do what we can do to help people get the best possible care." Under the program, labs are required to forward test results to a central database, where thei...

Alcohol Abuse Must be solved with Action

Scotland's epidemic of alcohol abuse can only be tackled by more action and less talk according to opposition parties, yesterday as the health minister// voiced support for higher taxes on drinks. Leading doctors have launched a new group called Scottish Health Action...

Prime Minister Calls For Early Warning System On Epidemic Outbreaks

...d called for setting up an early warning system on epidemic outbreaks. According to health ministry, over 160 people have died this year due to spread of dengue across the country. In the case of chikungunya, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has disclaimed any deaths due to the disease. Both the diseases ...

Massive expansion of Anti-AIDS programme in Southern Africa

... duplication and move the overall response to this epidemic to a larger scale". Kapila said, "Western countries, which have previously promised money to help combat the disease, have sometimes failed to stump up the cash and needed to ‘walk the talk’."Lots of pledges have been made ... but we are still wait...

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