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 The AIDS epidemic goes on because the Americans seemed to have ignored the piece of advice given by the U.S. health officials to get the HIV testing if they were aged between 13 and 64 years. These testing remain in the shadow for most of the people. And this happens despite the new guidelines and the better testing methods.These results...
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 Researchers have recently discovered that the gene which causes the risk of obesity in people is strongly connected to colon cancer. And that’s good because the fat cells inside the body create a smaller risk of colon cancer. On Tuesday, the researchers added that this might be a discovery to reassure the people who have family history...
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 The Environmental Working Group reported on Thursday that a fire retardant chemical was found in children’s blood at triple levels found in their mothers. The retardant chemical is usually used in electronics, toys and furniture but the researchers tested blood samples of 20 families, searching for the PBDE, a hormone-disrupting...
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 A new study made by a research team at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has shown that asthma is strongly connected to child abuse and the children abused by their parents are the ones at greater risk to develop the respiratory problem.1,200 children were asked questions by the researcher’s team. They were asked about their...
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 Researchers showed on Monday that children who are born with fathers older than 30 are at greater risk to develop bipolar disorder. This disorder is known as maniac depression. The risk increases when the father is even older. For example, when the father is already 55 years old the risk increases up to 37%.Emma Frans, an epidemiologist...
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 What's really the cause of cancer? Not only patients, but people all around the world seem to don’t have a clue about what cancer really is and does, as a new study observed. The research was published at the International Union Against Cancer’s at the World Cancer Congress in Geneva on August 27. It seems that people tend to blame the...
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The risk of developing
Alzheimer's or dementia is reduced if you live with a spouse or a
partner, according to a Swedish study published Thursday.
Researcher Krister Hakansson of the Karolinska Institute and Vaxjo
University conducted the study using data from a Finnish study where
2,000 people were examined at the age of around...
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The writing had been on the wall for some time. But last week, it became official.
The search for a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is
taking an about-turn, back to the laboratory and away from human trials
that had held out so much hope in the past two years. The
news was delivered by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the...
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 Since 1996, the life expectancy of people infected with HIV in developed countries taking antiviral therapy has risen with no less than 13 years and mortality among them has decreased by almost 40 percent, said this week's special HIV/AIDS edition of the journal Lancet.However, life expectancy continues falling short by an estimated 20...
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 The majority of the people in the United States infected with HIV live in the South, shows a report released Monday.The nonprofit Southern AIDS coalition, a group of HIV/AIDS advocates trying to augment funding for prevention and treatment options, assigns the South's uneven impact of HIV/AIDS cases to increasing infection rates together...
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 A new report released on Thursday in the American Heart
Association journal Stroke indicates that postmenopausal women who constantly
sleep 9 hours or more per night are more predisposed to cerebrovascular
accident risks.
The study was conducted on 93,000 women, aged from 50 to 79,
who live in 40 different locations in the United...
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 A new study indicates that people of African descent are
liable to possess a genetic feature that makes them more predisposed to
infection with the HIV virus.
Researchers reckon that the trait, which also offers
protection against a certain form of malaria, might be responsible for 11
percent of the HIV cases in Africa, the...
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According to a new study led by NYU Langone Medical Center
researchers and involving more than 7,000 subjects, a bacteria that is known to
live in the human stomach may protect children from developing asthma.
Although bacterium helicobacter pylori, which has co-existed
with humans for at least 50,000 years, may also lead to...
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 US researchers have suggested that brain exercise could reduce the effect of Alzheimer’s disease.Alzheimer’s is a terminal and degenerative disease for which there is known no cure. In its common form, it affects people over 65 years old. Still, an early-onset form exists. Each individual experiences the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in unique...
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 A new Harvard study initiated by David
Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and Rafael de Cabo of the National Institute
of aging shows that resveratrol, a compound found in grapes and red wine
provides heart benefits, preventing cardiovascular diseases, reducing heart
inflammation, enabling stronger bones and preventing eye cataracts....
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 Since highly active anti-retroviral drug
therapy was made available to people infected with HIV living in developing
countries, the HIV death rate has dropped in the first five years after infection
to the point where it is equal to the normal death rates in the developing
countries, a new report found.
“Our results show the...
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 Men who have low levels of vitamin D are at
higher risk of heart attack, researchers presented their findings in an article
published in the June 9 issue of “Archives of Internal Medicine.”
It has been found that deaths related to
cardiovascular disease are more frequent in higher latitudes and during the winter
months and are...
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Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association for June 4. No matter how shocking it may sound, they showed colon cancer patients who have a family history of the disease may live longer when treated than those people who do not have it in their family...
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 Waters off California's
coast are cleaner in dry weather than they've been in years, according to an
environmental report released Wednesday. The report also shows that Ventura County's
beaches are the cleanest in Southern California.
The environmental group Heal the Bay's "Beach Report
Card" analyzed 517 beaches on the...
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 Bayer HealthCare and co-developer
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc announced on Monday that they had halted a late-stage
trial of Nexavar, a medicine administered to patients diagnosed with non-small
cell lung cancer.
A monitoring committee said that
the medicine will not meet its primary goal of improved overall survival that
is...
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 A second late-stage trial for
Avastin drug proved to be efficient in prolonging progression-free survival in
some breast cancer patients, which was Genentech’ s primary goal.
Genentech Inc said on Tuesday
that the new study sponsored by Roche Holding AG, in which Avastin was combined
with docetaxel chemotherapy, was...
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 Scientists have found that
70-year-old people who take care of themselves, leading healthy lifestyles, not
smoking and maintaining a reasonable body weight and blood pressure are likely
to live until 90. The study, conducted by Boston’
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also states that the former lifestyle during
youth is not relevant,...
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 The U. S. Food and Drug Administration
has approved the first replacement heart valve from donated human tissue, which
does not contain the tissues’ cells. The FDA cleared the new human heart valve
manufactured by CryoLife, and said it is a “promising advance” in helping
patients, especially children who need replacement heart...
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Tiny molecules that help cells regulate which proteins they make might one day help doctors predict which liver-cancer patients are likely to live longer than others, new research suggests.
Researchers compared levels of molecules called microRNA in tumor cells and adjacent nontumor cells from liver-cancer patients, most of whom also...
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 A recent study carried out by researchers at the King’s College in London and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey suggests that people who are physically active are younger and healthier than those who live a sedentary life.
The study was published Monday, in the Archive of Internal Medicine. According to the...
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 According to a new study, a new, low-cost screening strategy could make it easier for poor countries to target and treat Chagas disease, a deadly parasite-borne condition found mainly in Latin America.Fighting the disease has traditionally focused mainly on spraying campaigns to kill the bug that carries the single-cell parasite causing...
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 Researchers from UCLA say that as people live longer their
chances of developing Alzheimer's disease also increases and that fish oils can really
reduce chances of developing Alzheimer's. More importantly, they have found out
why this is so.
Greg Cole, professor of medicine and neurology, David Geffen School of
Medicine, UCLA and...
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 The American Cancer Society released a rather macabre study
on Monday saying that about 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide
from various types of cancer, with lung cancer, heavily driven by smoking, killing
975,000 men and 376,000 women.
In all, about 12.3 million people will develop cancer this
year, the organization...
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 According to a study published online Tuesday in the journal Neurology, HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report reports, black and Hispanic Alzheimer's patients live longer than whites, Asian-Americans and American Indians who have the diseaseFor the study, lead author Kala Mehta, an assistant adjunct professor at the University of...
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 According to a group of Swiss researchers and a study they
conducted, teens that use only cannabis appear to function better than those
who also use tobacco, and are more socially driven and have no more
psychosocial problems than those who abstain from both substances.
Cannabis or marijuana is the illegal drug most commonly...
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 Parkinson's patients received brain stimulation, they had
trouble making hard decisions. However, when the stimulation was turned off,
patients responded like the healthy individuals in the control study.
Parkinson's disease is caused by the degradation of nerve
cells in the brain that produce dopamine, a signaling chemical that...
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 Researchers said on Monday in a study that provides a better understanding of how the deadly HIV virus spreads that people with moderate levels of HIV in their blood are the most likely to infect others.Looking at several groups of HIV-positive people in Europe, the United States and Africa, the researchers found that people with high...
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 According to a study conducted by researchers at Harvard University and other schools, men with
deep voices may indeed be better at more than just picking up women, actually a
deep pitched voice can be a predictor of fertility.
The study was released on the internet in the Biology
Letters journal, and presented research on the...
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 According to a report of the National Centre for Health
statistics, life expectancy for children born in the USA rose to a record height in
2005, while the death rate fell to a new low.
According to a report based on preliminary death records
from all 50 states and Washington, D.C, a child
born in the USA
is expectably...
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 Babies that live in a bilingual environment are able to tell when a person switches to a different language by watching their face3, according to Canadian researchers.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada conducted a study on babies’ ability to distinguish between people using different languages through...
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 Researchers have identified a correlation between the time of year when a baby is conceived and their future development.
Dr Paul Winchester, a neonatal specialist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and his colleagues, studied more than 27 million live births in the U.S. between 1996 and 2002.
The team of researchers found...
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 To live without a heart? We know it’s possible for some minutes, let’s say hours, but for four months? That was how a 14-year-old girl lived during 118 days when her heart was stopped from any function. D'Zhana Simmons said that she felt “fake” but even if she couldn’t feel anything, she knew she was still there. "And I did live...
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 Recent investigations have shown that six patients from Woodstock facility died in 2006. According to CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli, a nurse from the Woodstock facility is guilty for the death of those six patients. Marty Himebaugh killed the patients with lethal drug overdoses, as some of her colleagues reported to...
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A vaccine used to stop
outbreaks of the deadly bird flu virus in chickens in Hong Kong for the
last seven years is losing its effectiveness, a leading microbiologist
warned Tuesday. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said the vaccine,
which protects chicken from the H5 strain of the virus, is becoming
less effective and the city risks...
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 The Genentech’s most important drug, Avastin,
a drug used to treat breast, colon and lung cancer by cutting off the blood
supply to tumors, may not be as effective as the Food and Drug Administration
had understood when it approved its uses. The US Food and Drug Administration
approved the drug in combination with paclitaxel...
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Hong Kong – Health authorities ordered that all live
chickens be killed at retail outlets, as there are signs of bird flu outbreaks.
For the moment, the decision refers to 3,500 birds that were on
sale markets Tuesday night.
The health officials’ decision comes as a consequence of the tests made
on four chicken markets that...
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 A new study has highlighted huge differences in Medicare spending, as well as in the care it funds, when it comes to chronically ill patients, mostly seniors, and the disabled. Three states spend much more to take care of their elderly: New York, New Jersey and California.However, the outcome, at least in terms of survivability, is not...
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 Colorado health officials warned the residents of Alamosa, a southern Colorado town, to stop drinking or cooking with their tap water because it appears to be linked with the recent local Salmonella outbreak. Around 33 people have become ill with the bacteria and dozens more are being investigated."Municipal water is not a common...
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 A recent study
showed that antibiotics should be prescribed with much more attention,
especially when it comes about people suffering from dementia diseases, such as
Alzheimer’s disease.
For example,
Alzheimer’s disease is considered by many doctors and by the Alzheimer’s
Association to be a fatal brain disease, that is a...
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 Even if Paraguay’s
people panicked and started to act violently because of the recent yellow fever
outbreak, the country’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare is
currently trying to deal with the problem. Paraguay is also being helped by
neighbor countries and by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Ministry...
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 A new study sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO)
shows children with severe pneumonia can be effectively treated at home and do
not need to be hospitalized. The World Health Organization calls this finding
hugely significant for developing countries. It says the change of treatment
will save many children's lives and...
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 According to a Pennsylvania study exercise is not a cure for
hot flashes, but it does help postmenopausal women cope with stress, anxiety
and depression.
The researchers had hoped to prove that exercise could be a
less risky alternative to hormone replacement therapy for women suffering from
hot flashes, said study author Deborah...
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 Health officials have demonstrated that smoking a cigarette
in a car makes the air inside 10 to 30 times more toxic than the air outdoors
on one of Southern California's most polluted days.
On Thursday, state officials put on a live demonstration of that health hazard
to promote a new law that bans smoking in cars carrying...
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 Health officials are concerned with the nation's poor diet, costing
the economy £10 billion, of which £7.7 billion comprises NHS treatment that
could be avoided if people cut down on fatty and salty foods and ate more fresh
fruit and vegetables.
Those who die prematurely would have lived for almost 10
years longer if they adhered...
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 A new study conducted by researchers at Edinburgh University
has discovered that people from England who live in Scotland are less likely to
die from heart disease than those born north of the border. They say they that
those born in the UK and that move to Scotland are 20% less likely to die from
heart problems.
They suspect part...
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 According to a major study published today, consuming a
Mediterranean diet can make you live longer
Eating plenty of fruit, vegetables and fish instead of meat,
not to mention olive oil rather than saturated fats, is generally accepted to
be good for you, but only a few studies have attempted to work out whether such
a diet would...
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 According to preliminary birth statistics released by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the teen birth rate in the
United States rose in 2006 for the first time since 1991, and unmarried
childbearing also rose significantly.
The statistics are featured in a new report, “Births: Preliminary Data for
2006, ”...
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 According to health official reports, the birth rate for
teenagers increased in 2006 in the United States for the first time since 1991,
while childbearing among unmarried women surged to the highest level on record.
Across-the-board increases in birth rates for women ages 15 to 44 drove the
total U.S. fertility rate, the estimated...
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 Health officials released a statistic on Wednesday according
to which the birth rate for teenagers increased in 2006 in the United States
for the first time since 1991, while childbearing among unmarried women surged
to the highest level on record.
Across-the-board increases in birth rates for women ages 15
to 44 drove the total...
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 A new study finds that older obese adults who are in good
cardiovascular shape have a lower risk of death than those who are of normal
weight but are out of shape.
The research, published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, finds that adults over age 60 who have higher levels of
cardiovascular fitness live longer...
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 Bentley College
freshman Erin M. Ortiz, 18, died of bacterial meningitis after being vaccinated
against it.
Ortiz went home last weekend complaining of a headache and
went to bed to sleep it off but was found dead the next morning by her mother.
Like most incoming freshmen, Ortiz was vaccinated last
summer. Massachusetts...
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After doctors mislabeled tissue samples belonging to the
woman, they incorrectly diagnosed her with cancer sand performed a double
mastectomy only to later realize the grave mistake they have made.
35-year-old Long Beach, New
York single mother Darrie Eason is now suing the
hospital for an undisclosed amount of...
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 According to a recent study meant to analyze the factors
that lead to overweight teenagers, one of the major reasons are the
surroundings.
Apparently teens in lower-income families are exposed to
more fast food, junk food and other toxic environmental influences than those
in higher income ones.
Obesity experts have been saying...
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 After a recent bird flu outbreak in China's southern Guangdong Province, China's
Ministry of Agriculture will send 12 teams to analyze, supervise and prevent
the spreading of the virus to nearby areas.
With the autumn season approaching, China is taking precautionary
measures to ensure that events in recent years do not re-occur...
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 The American Academy of Dermatology has released a ranking of “sun smart” cities and states in the US, i.e. with residents knowledgeable in sun exposure and protection and skin cancer.
Over 3,300 adults completed the AAD’s online survey, titled “Rays: Your Grade,” in February 2007. The questions covered topics such as sun exposure, sun...
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 The premature birth rates in the United States reach a “D” grade and 18 other states like District of Columbia and Puerto Rico get only failing grades. No states received an “A,” and only Vermont got a “B.” 23 other states were ranked at “D” grade during the first annual “Premature Birth Report Card” of March of Dimes, which was released...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 According to a new report which checked all the hospitals in the U.S., the southern part of the country is worst regarding its hospitals and its medical care. The new report is part of a program which focuses on the quality of life of the patients and not on the cures for diseases. Organized by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and...
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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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 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an almost decade long decline in infant-mortality rates has stalled and deaths directly linked to preterm births have increased, particularly for non-Hispanic black women. African-American babies stand twice more chances than white babies to die in their first year of life.The...
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 Hong Kong authorities responded to fears of a dangerous bird flu outbreak and
announced the decision to kill all poultry in the city’s markets and retail
outlets. The order does not affect sales of pre-slaughtered poultry sold
packaged in supermarkets. It does not apply either to Hong
Kong’s chicken farmers because samples taken...
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 Environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
government on Tuesday in their effort to cease a federal wildlife refuge
in Wyoming from going on feeding
wild elk. They say this could lead to or worsen a spread of diseases in the large
wildlife and livestock around Yellowstone
National Park.
Among the diseases the...
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The American Lung Association’s State of
the Air reported yesterday the rates of air pollution in different cities of
the U.S. between 2004 and 2006, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The researchers have based their study on
three categories of air quality: short-term and year round particle pollution,
the last one...
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 According to top United Nations' scientists, the world will
have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly
free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as
many as a quarter of the planet's species from global warming, according to top
United Nations' scientists.
The...
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A deadly fish virus has crept up in Wisconsin inland waters, prompting the state’s Department of Natural Resources to call for strict measures.
The virus is called viral hemorrhagic septicemia, and causes fish to bleed to death internally. It was first discovered in Lake Huron in 2005, then in Lake Eerie; last year the virus was...
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 An official told Fox News on Friday that a teenager from Florida committed suicide in front of his webcam after he had posted online messages announcing everyone about his plans to kill himself. Abraham Biggs Jr., 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla. passed away on Wednesday, Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's...
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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 Thomas Beatie, 34, shocked the whole world when he announced he was pregnant. Nobody believed that the role that Arnold Schwarzenegger interpreted in Junior would become real, but last year thousands of photos appeared of a real man carrying a baby! The weird thing is that Beatie used to be a woman, who later underwent surgery to become...
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 The Great Southern California Shake Out is a weeklong event that is meant to teach people how to act during a big earthquake. The education program starts today at 10 a.m. when 5.2 million residents of California will have to roll under the tables and spend two minutes holding its leg tightly. The organizers of the events say that it’s...
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Christopher Ciccone has little in common with his sister, ultra fit and apparently ageless pop star Madonna.
The 47-year-old Ciccone is so reserved he comes across almost as shy. He's wrapped in an oversized hooded sweatshirt, and the wrinkles show around his eyes, making him look personable.
Despite the cool autumn weather, he...
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