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A Health Department survey of 452 New York City gay men shows Black, Hispanic and Asian men are less likely to disclose their sexual orientation to their physicians than white men, it was announced on Wednesday.
The study revealed that 39 percent of homosexuals didn’t discuss with their doctors about their sexuality. An estimated 60% of African American men, 48% of... |
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 Two fictional companies set up by the Government Accountability Office were approved by Medicare to provide equipment such as wheelchairs despite the fact that the false providers had no customers, as well as no products in stock, said a GAO report released Wednesday. A Medicare supplier that screens providers paid a visit to the two...
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 The Goshen Scout Reservation has been closed until further notice after more than a dozen scouts were sickened by E.Coli there, an official informed last night. According to officials of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the local camp was closed after discovering that more scouts presented symptoms of the...
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 On the opening day of the International AIDS conference, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that discrimination against gay people must be brought to an end and required countries to enlarge AIDS-prevention programmes for the this group. Likewise, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, ex-president of Botswana, Festus Mogae,...
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 President George W. Bush signed into law on Wednesday a global AIDS bill that authorizes more American spending to fight AIDS pandemic, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide. Despite the fact that the amount of money which is on the verge of being allocated for that purpose is higher than he had initially wanted, Bush enthusiastically...
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 The blood thinner heparin is one of the oldest drugs, which currently is still used in hospital surgeries and for kidney dialysis patients. It has been discovered in 1916 but didn’t enter clinical trials until 1935.A safe provide of heparin was seriously doubted last year in a disaster that shed light on important problems generated by...
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 The Bush administration is putting forward a new regulation that could dissuade physicians and health-care companies from providing birth control to women. The rule distorts the difference between abortion and birth control and may menace good state laws that are protective with women's access to contraceptive means.The draft rule, which...
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 According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.Taking into account the record of warnings about smoking risk and the fact that smoking causes one in five deaths in the U.S., John D. Dingell,...
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The death toll from a
cholera outbreak in Indonesia's easternmost province has risen to 172
Wednesday as reports of violence against migrants accused of spreading
the disease are being reported, according to local church leaders.
Local church workers said that at least 172 residents from 19 villages
in two different sub-districts...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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