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BBC News
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Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs.
A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in..
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BBC News
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The United Nations has reduced its estimates of how many people are infected with HIV in 2007 from nearly 40m to 33m.
Revised figures for India account for much of the decrease, experts say.
But the rate of new cases and mortality levels are declini..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus.
Dr Anthony Fauci told a conference in Sydney that progress had been made, but more people were being infected with HIV than were being treat..
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CNN
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The numbers are a shock: Almost 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, and over half a billion more will harbor this silent killer by 2025.
It's not just a problem for the ever-fattening Western world. Even in parts of Africa, high blood..
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New Scientist
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People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, a new study suggests.
The researchers believe this is because oral sex may transmit human papillomavi..
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SF Gate
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A virulent strain of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs is surfacing around the globe, raising fears of a pandemic that could devastate efforts to contain TB and prove deadly to people with immune-deficiency diseases such as HIV-AIDS.
Known..
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BBC News
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Just 28% of poor people with HIV have access to the antiretroviral drugs that could save their lives, a study shows.
The report is published by the World Health Organization, UNAids and Unicef.
It warned many obstacles remain to meeting the United N..
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FOX News
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In the last two weeks of his life, Sherman Sizemore felt like people were trying to bury him alive.
Now, more than a year later, members of his family say the horrifying experience of being conscious during surgery but unable to move or speak led direc..
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Time
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Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more th..
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CNN
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About 100 people have been poisoned by carbon monoxide produced by generators and charcoal grills used for warmth and light during the widespread power outages caused by a major storm in western Washington state...
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SF Gate
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Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
"It has been generally assumed that living to 100 years..
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MSNBC
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Scientists in Oregon say they’ve reached the long-sought goal of cloning monkey embryos and extracting stem cells from them, a potentially major step toward doing the same thing in people.
The research has not been published yet or confirmed by other..
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SF Gate
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The survival rate from stroke has improved steadily, and substantially, over the decades due to faster and better treatments, but the result is that 4.5 million people are living with sometimes severe disabilities and face a long and painful recovery...
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MSNBC
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A few nights without sleep can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually put the brain into a primitive "fight or flight" state, researchers said on Wednesday.
Brain images of otherwise healthy men and women showed two full days withou..
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CBS News
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Doctors in Philadelphia are testing a revolutionary new treatment that is restoring life and bringing people back from the dead. CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details.
During cardiac arrest, the heart stops bea..
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MSNBC
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We all know about heartache. For some, feeling alone can be physically painful. And a strong body of recent research has established that it’s not just in our minds. Chronic social isolation is linked to heart disease—it stresses the entire cardiovasc..
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SF Gate
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A new generation of faster, twistier roller coasters can make the heart race up to 155 beats per minute and spur dangerous changes to heart rhythm in some people, according to a study released Tuesday.
One volunteer in the study, which took place on th..
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FOX News
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday advised people not to eat raw oysters harvested in Washington state, citing bacterial illnesses that have sickened at least six people in that state and California.
The state Department of Health closed t..
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BBC News
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Thousands of people are falling sick as flood waters recede across South Asia, with health workers struggling to cope with inadequate medical stocks.
Ponds of stagnant water are creating breeding grounds for disease.
Thousands have been treated for..
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BBC News
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Millions of people affected by flooding in South Asia face a health crisis unless relief work is urgently stepped up, the United Nations has warned.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef said stagnant waters were "a lethal breeding ground" for..
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