Weight Loss :: The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy by Dr. Harry Preuss
A Georgetown medical professor cuts through hype surrounding weight-loss supplements with new science-based guide.
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Cancer :: Creating new life forms that may help eradicate cancer affecting women
Dr. Vafa Shahabi and her research team at Advaxis have designed several new strains of the Listeria bacteria that are programmed to kill off specific cancers.
HIV :: UN rep expelled after comment on Gambian president’s AIDS cure
The government of The Gambia gave the most senior United Nations official in the country 48 hours to leave the country starting Friday, following remarks she made criticising Gambian President Yahya Jammeh?s widely-publicised cure for HIV/AIDS.
HIV :: New AIDS drugs aim to fight resistant HIV
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:GILD) announced the completion of a Phase II clinical trial of GS 9137, a novel oral HIV integrase inhibitor.
HIV :: Most Indian women have not heard of HIV and AIDS
The National Family Health Survey (NFHS), the most extensive study on health and nutrition in India, said in its latest report only 57 percent of women have heard of AIDS.
HIV :: AIDS vaccine clinical trial results under analysis
The phase I clinical trials for an AIDS vaccine,which began on February_8, 2005 at the National Aids Research Institute (Nari) here, have been completed, with researchers confirming that the “whole exercise went off smoothly without any safety concern”, reported by Times of India.
HIV :: Gauteng Health Department, Musicians Join Hands Against Aids HIV
Gauteng Health Department in partnership with African Musicians Against HIV and Aids (AMAHA) will host Ekasi S’ vukile concert at Soweto, Mofolo Park on February 24, 2007.
Relationships :: UN independent experts oppose proposed Nigerian ban on same-sex relationships
Voicing serious concern over a proposed Nigerian bill which would effectively outlaw same-sex relationships, four independent United Nations experts today said it would violate international human rights norms, and urged the Government to withdraw it immediately.
Circumcision :: UN meeting to study male circumcision as curb to HIV
United Nations health agencies have convened an international meeting of AIDS experts for early March to examine the latest findings that male circumcision cuts the risk of HIV infection in men in heterosexual relations by up to 60 per cent.
Circumcision :: WHO, UNAIDS welcome findings of male circumcision on HIV risk
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNAIDS Secretariat welcome the publication today in The Lancet of the detailed findings of two trials undertaken in Kenya and Uganda to determine whether male circumcision has a protective effect against acquiring HIV infection.