With children, HIV infection is not treated just by pills. Children need the care of family, they have to have friends, they have to go to school. It's not just medical care." When Dr. Pagakrong Lumbiganon speaks about her work
A little more than a year ago, Harmony Home, an organization in Taiwan that provides housing and care for HIV-positive people and their children, was facing eviction from its Taipei quarters because of opposition from neighbors who did not want
MSM have been largely ignored by both social and public health structures in many countries for too long," stated a recently published study in the journal PLoS Medicine. While available data indicate a widespread threat that could devastate MSM populations
I am tired of not being able to treat patients because the medicines are too expensive. Africans should not be dying because of inability to pay when effective medicines can be available at affordable prices. These medicines are already available
July 17, 2007 - According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region has one of the fastest-growing epidemic in the world. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of
March 14, 2008. Asia is confronting a complex and devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although HIV did not hit Asian countries until the late 1980s, by the late 1990s the epidemic was well established across the region. UNAIDS reports that in 2007,
March 2008. Thailand has long been recognized as one of the world's success stories when it comes to fighting back against HIV/AIDS. It was the first country in Southeast Asia to be hit by the epidemic in 1984, and soon
The Bush administration made its request on Friday to the court that is considering overturning a ruling that allowed Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kan., to test all its beef for mad cow disease.
The report, released to coincide with May's Mental Health Awareness Month, shows a whooping two million teens felt depressed at some point during the past year. Depressed teens are more than twice as likely as non-depressed teens to have used
Among older adults, depression is significantly associated with lower vitamin D levels and elevated levels of parathyroid hormone, according to an article published in the May issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Most cases of sudden cardiac death are related to arrhythmias, including clinical conditions such as long QT syndrome (LQTS), a disorder of the heart's electrical system that causes fast, chaotic heartbeats. LQTS - which can be inherited or brought on
Writing in the Yale Daily News Divya Subrahmanyam points to high dollar offers for ideal egg donors. "Ivy League Egg Donor Wanted." Sound familiar? From the News to the New...
An Israeli Jewish doctor successfully started a pregnancy in an Arab girl at the age of 16. The total fertility rate in Israel is currently estimated at 2.77 children born...
And even among depressed people, the numbers of these receptors can vary greatly. What's more, the number of receptors a depressed person has appears to be linked with the severity of their symptoms - and the chances that they'll feel
A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles and web pages. Developed by
Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share? A new study finds that most people choose the latter, and that the brain responds in
Millions of American teens report experiencing weeks of hopelessness and loss of interest in normal daily activities and many of these depressed teens are using marijuana and other drugs, making their situation worse, according to a new White House report.
