Warning that under-nourishment, environmental damage, conflicts and terrorism posed serious challenge to children’s health, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it was important to “respect and uphold” the right to health of children.
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. today announced its opposition to the Public Health Council’s adoption of a regulation requiring providers to report cases of HIV infection by name to the Department of Public Health, instead of the code that has been in use since 1999.
On November 16, the American Cancer Society will hold its 30th annual Great American Smokeout. Every year, smokers across the nation take part in the Smokeout by smoking less or quitting for the day on the third Thursday of November. The event challenges people to stop using tobacco and raises awareness of the many effective ways to quit for good.
UNICEF today called on governments and others committed to universal education and gender equality to remember that the earliest years are the most critical for children?s development. If many of the Millennium Development Goals are to be reached, the children?s agency warned, the cycle of negative gender stereotypes must be broken earlier in a child’s life rather than later.
Several charities have accused rich countries of undermining a WTO agreement to improve access for the world’s poorest people to cheaper drugs against diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a unique anti-sickling agent that may one day be effective in treating sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating genetic blood disorder that affects approximately 80,000 Americans.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked the overall #1 hospital in New York City, according to New York magazine’s 2006 “Best Hospitals” issue.
Despite significant improvements in dialysis treatments, currently over 20 percent of the 350,000 maintenance hemodialysis patients in the United States die each year. A study published in Hemodialysis International finds that this high mortality rate may be attributed to malnutrition.
An article in Nature on Thursday 9/11 reports the discovery of gorillas living in the wild in Central Africa infected with an HIV-1 related virus, called SIVgor, genetically close to an HIV-1 variant called group O. This discovery ask the crucial question on the source and route for infection of the gorillas. It broadens substantially the scope of research on the ability of these viruses to cross over from one species to another.
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