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Health :: Red wines’ resveratrol offers survival benefits, increases lifespan

Researchers have used a single compound to increase the lifespan of obese mice, and found that the drug reversed nearly all of the changes in gene expression patterns found in mice on high calorie diets–some of which are associated with diabetes, heart disease, and other significant diseases related to obesity. The research, led by investigators at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging, is the first time that the small molecule resveratrol has been shown to offer survival benefits in a mammal. The study is reported in the November 1 advanced online edition of Nature.

Bird Flu :: No evidence of new bird flu strain – China

China has found no evidence of a new strain of H5N1 bird flu in its southern provinces and said on Thursday there was no need to share virus samples with the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Breastfeeding :: Milkscreen Introduces New At-Home Breast Milk Test

Julie Jumonville and Elizabeth Smith, co-founders of Milkscreen, Inc. announce the launch of their new product Milkscreen?, available nationwide beginning October, 2006. The two-minute test analyzes breast milk for the presence of alcohol and provides mothers with a clear positive or negative reading.

Breastfeeding :: Unlimited expressed breast milk on board airplanes

This is a petition to urge the Transportation Security Administration to consider breast milk to be a life sustaining and supporting body fluid for babies. This means that mothers would be allowed to carry pumped breast milk in the cabin of airplanes in any amount whether traveling with or without their infants.

Cervical Cancer :: Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil in CDC’s Vaccines for Children

Merck & Co., Inc. announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine, GARDASIL? [Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (Types 6, 11, 16, 18) Recombinant Vaccine] to the CDC’s Vaccines for Children (VFC) contract for girls and women aged 9 to 18. GARDASIL was approved on June 8 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in girls and women ages 9 to 26 years. GARDASIL is the world’s first and only vaccine available for the prevention of HPV types 16- and 18-related cervical cancer, cervical pre-cancers (CIN 2/3 and AIS), vulvar pre-cancers (VIN 2/3) and vaginal pre-cancers (VaIN 2/3) and for the prevention of genital warts and low-grade cervical lesions (CIN 1) caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18.

Bird Flu :: Chinese Ministry of Health not sharing bird flu info, viruses – WHO

The World Health Organization criticized the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture officials for not informing the global community of the emergence of a new variant of the worrisome H5N1 avian flu virus – Fujian-like virus, and hoarding virus samples and for not doing enough to contain the spread of H5N1 in poultry.

SIDS :: NZ researchers doubt findings, parents should follow precautions

Researchers in New Zealand are sceptical of US findings that cot death, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), may be caused by an abnormality in the brain.

Health :: Stress School-based sex education

School-based sex education improves awareness of risk and knowledge of risk reduction strategies, increases self-effectiveness and intention to practice safer sex, and delays rather than hastens the onset of sexual activity.

Health :: Trends in sexual behaviour are changing

Factors that determine variations and trends in sexual behaviour are environmental and include shifts in poverty, education, and employment; demographic trends such as the changing age structure of populations and the trend towards later marriage; increased migration between and within countries; globalisation of mass media; advances in contraception and access to family-planning services; and public-health HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention strategies.

Health :: Multiple partnerships is more common in men

Monogamy is the dominant pattern in most regions; but reporting of multiple partnerships is more common in men than in women, and generally more common in developed countries than in developing countries.