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Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...e virus to fully consolidate the gains and keep it under control, international research chiefs say. Speaking ahead of an international conference of 5,000 HIV/AIDS researchers in Sydney next week, America's top expert Anthony Fauci and his Australian counterpart David Cooper said HIV remained a major p...

Zambia to Get Anti-AIDS Drug Boost from Global Fund

...g initiative, has increased the number of children under life-saving treatment in Zambia by about 7,200, an agency spokeswoman said. With current levels of the disease, youngsters in Zambia face a 50 percent life-time risk of dying of AIDS in the absence of treatment, according to United Nations. The Z...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...f the Pacific. Savage, who is due to depart from under the Golden Gate Bridge, will stop off in Hawaii and the South Pacific island of Tuvalu before finally ending in Australia. Savage said she was seeking to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific to draw attention to oceanic pollution. ...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...f the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), constituted under the Forest Conservation Act, the federal governmen...in National Parks and Sanctuaries and other issues under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. These cases are being heard for the last nine years and are a...

Katrina Evacuees Made To Remain In Toxic Air

...l Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of America is under disgrace. According to congressional lawmakers, th...conduct a new assessment of conditions in trailers under prolonged use. But revelation of the agency's earlier posture in documents withheld by FEMA until C...

Indian, Iraqi Medics may Face Terror Stigma Overseas

... report in the BBC, a major investigation has been under way in the United Kingdom since the two failed explosions. The suspects are doctors or medical students, among them people who qualified in Jordan, India and Iraq. Overseas doctors have started voicing concerns over the new stringent checks for ...

Kids Ability to Describe Past Event Develops With Time

...f experienced events as they grew older. Witnesses under 10 seldom mentioned specific times or dates, or what happened before reported events or actions but there was a dramatic increase to such references at the age of 10. The study noted that children remembered the times of past events by making refe...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...ramming where the audiences are over half children under 12 years old. Candy maker Cadbury Adams said it would stop running ads for its super-sweet bubble gums beginning March 2008. Soft drink and fast-food conglomerate Pepsico said it would limit its under-12-directed pitches to its sports-rehydration d...

Traditional Tibetan Medicine Gaining Acceptance in Himachal Pradesh

...believed to have started in 567 B.C. whenTibet was under the religious and cultural influence of the indigenous Bon traditions of the pre-Buddhist era. The Tibetan Medical System and Astrological Institute, founded by the 13th Dalai Lama in Tibet in 1916, was re-established in 1961 by the 14th Dalai Lama...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...een publicly released because the incident remains under investigation. But it was reviewed by the inspectors for the federal report. At 1:30 a.m., when Rodriguez was ``kicking with her feet'' on the floor, ``two staff members looked at the patient and then walked back through the door to an area within...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

...sels are unstable and tend to leak fluid and blood under the retina. The resulting scarring then causes irreversible sight loss. The anti-VEGF drugs inhibit the growth of new blood vessels, thereby minimising the risk of scarring. Treatment with anti-VEGF drugs requires regular injections into the eye. ...

Experts Warn Against Side Effects of the New Weight Loss Drug

... marketed in prescription form by Roche Holding AG under the brand name Xenical since 1999, but it never tu...the body. The drug is not recommended for children under 18, people with kidney disease, patients on blood thinners and certain other medications, and pregna...

Half a Million Dollars Offered for GPs With Expertise in Anesthetics and Obstetrics

...ort, titled Review of the Rural Retention Program, under Freedom of Information laws. It says the progra...report recommends increasing the value of payments under the RRP, making them non-taxable, and expanding the program to include non-financial support....

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...-level resistant HIV strains that can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure, as it is limited to detecting resistance mutations that are present at levels of approximately 20 per cent or greater in the circulating viral population in a patient. This study clearly shows th...

Scientists Have Discovered Blood Protein That Could Spot Colon Cancer

...hallmark of cancer cells that is easily detectable under the microscope as a misshapen and discoloured nucleus. This led the researchers to the notion that there must be something at the molecular level that would form a molecular flag for cancer via a blood test. Researchers used a particular concentrat...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

...o Koranic procedures are all 'haram', or forbidden under Islam. 'The conference ... calls on OIC member st...or 11 of the 16 highest rates of death in children under five in the world, conference organisers said. The meeting also called on OIC countries to establi...

Drink and Drugs 'fuel British Sexual Health Crisis'

... countries for child wellbeing and found that more under 15s had had sex than in any other country. Britain is notorious for its binge-drinking culture. "Young people, from their early teens, are defining a lifestyle that involves alcohol, drugs and sex," said the group's chair, Baroness Joyce Gould. "...

Gay Pride Attracts Tens of Thousands in Rome

...hich included transvestites and lawmakers, marched under a baking sun from Rome's Saint Paul's Gate to the ...entation" of society, with marriage and the family under attack. He also upheld the traditional values of fidelity in marriage and chastity for priests. To...

Nicole 'hoping Pregnancy Will Keep Her Out of the Slammer'!

...r. The Simple Life star was arrested for driving under influence on December 11, 2006. "Nicole is kind of hoping her pregnancy will keep her out of jail," New York Post quoted the source, as saying. Richie's friends are worried that she might be unable to carry the baby because of her weight. "(Everyo...

Ex-CIA Official Accuses Retired ISI Chief of Supporting Taliban

...too fond of the Taliban, but resent doing anything under pressure from the US out of sheer bloody-minded stubbornness," he said, adding, "Because of (that), the Pakistani military remains paralysed." The Guardian had quoted Gul as saying, "I morally support the movement to end the American occupation of ...

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