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HEALTH / NEWS Wed Feb 27, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the h.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- A pioneering treatment for diabetes is being rolled out across the country with experts believing it could eventually lead to a cure. Six centres are receiving nearly �10m of government funding to offer transplants of insulin-producing cells. The.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 10:45am neoform

BBC News -- International experts have backed the use of male circumcision in the prevention of HIV. The World Health Organization and UNAIDS said circumcision should be added to current interventions to reduce the spread of HIV. Three African trials have shown.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- Even more troubling is new research that suggests sleep apnea may in some cases lay the groundwork for serious long-term health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease that generally don’t show up until adulthood. Experts believe sleep ap.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- Doctors ought to quit using fuzzy terms to define children's weight problems and instead refer to truly fat kids as overweight or obese, a committee of medical experts recommended. Less blunt terms used by the government and many doctors diplomatically.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 3:59pm neoform

CNN -- Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's assertion that a herbal treatment had cured patients of the AIDS virus was not only wrong, but some of his supporting data were false, AIDS experts said Tuesday. A researcher in Senegal said Jammeh's office had misused.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:06am neoform

CNN -- A late freeze put a snowy exclamation point on a fairly mild winter for much of the United States, and experts say it's hard to predict what this weird weather means for allergy sufferers. It's certain allergy season is on its way, though, bringing sne.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Sat Mar 10, 2007 @ 2:52pm neoform

News.com.au -- WORLD-first research by Melbourne experts has found that frozen food may be the cause of a dramatic rise in immune disorders in children. Studies reveal a bacteria that thrives in freezing temperatures is present in almost half of Victoria's cases of c.. Read More