American Association for Cancer Research) The American Association for Cancer Research applauds President Obama's nomination of Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., to be the 16th director of the National Institutes of Health.

University of Wisconsin-Madison) The bottom-line message from a decades-long study of monkeys on a restricted diet is simple: Consuming fewer calories leads to a longer, healthier life.

Virginia Tech) Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine are advocating the use of systems biology as an innovative clinical approach to cancer. This approach could result in the development

American Association for Cancer Research) Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that survival among women with ovarian cancer is influenced by age of menarche and total number of lifetime ovulatory cycles.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) The relationship between migraine headaches in women and a significant reduction in breast cancer risk has been confirmed in a follow-on study to landmark research published last year and conducted by scientists at Fred Hutchinson

Hearing aids are often associated with old age and disability. Hearing loss, experts say, is now becoming more common in younger people. Technology and concerts may be to blame, but reasons aside, researchers now have to find ways to make

MARYBOROUGH'S Judith Raxworthy could not imagine life without her cochlear implants.

Claudia Cohen said she likes nothing better than rocking out to music while she works out at the gym, but a youth spent at rock concerts left her with moderate hearing loss.

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An iPhone can take the place of all kinds of gear--an air mouse, a metronome, a golfer's GPS, and so on. Now, thanks to SoundAMP, it can fill in for a hearing aid as well.

The Ministry of Finance has set aside 400 million yuan ($58 million) to help poor children suffering from impaired hearing, with cochlear implants and hearing aids.

Karachi, Jul 08, 2009 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults. One in three people older than 60 and half of those older than 85 have hearing loss,

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

What the mind attends to, it considers. What it does not attend to, it dismisses. What the mind attends to continually, it believes. And what the mind believes, it eventually does. Spirituality

A group of people living with Aids took the fight for their lives to court challenging a law they say denies them access to life-saving drugs.

A new study conducted in western Uganda shows that 40 per cent of patients with HIV have their infection diagnosed when they are already ill because of HIV, or have developed Aids.

With women now comprising 61 percent of all people infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, international donors, governments and advocacy organisations are looking more closely at the connections between HIV/AIDS and gender inequality.

A group of people living with Aids are planning to sue the government over a law that denies them life-sustaining drugs.

The High Court in Lobatse has ruled that a woman must pay P7,000 in damages for publishing confidential HIV/AIDS information.

Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies) The doctor speaks "medicalese," and the patient's eyes glaze over. Jessica Ridpath noticed this familiar failure to communicate when health care researchers asked people to take part in studies. So she created a