Reuters - An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, according to a report issued on Tuesday in Shanghai by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
AFP - New HIV infections have fallen by 17 percent over the past eight years, UNAIDS said Tuesday, noting that prevention programmes were having an impact.
AFP - A high-fat, high-sugar diet could have the same effect on brain chemistry as mood-altering drugs, giving scientific support to the craving for "comfort food", Australian researchers said on Tuesday.
AFP - Almost 60 million people have been infected by HIV and 25 million people killed by causes related to the virus since the epidemic started, according to new data published by UNAIDS on Tuesday.
Reuters - Food-loving Italy responded with indignation on Tuesday to a minister's comments that lunchbreaks -- still a sit-down ritual for many Italian workers -- are bad for waistlines and the economy, and should be skipped.
If you are scheduled for surgery, how do you know if your surgeon isn?t depressed or burned out? Could she or he commit a medical error while you are on the operating table?
A new study just released this week in Archives of Internal Medicine offers an interesting proposal to determine a drug?s risks sooner than they might otherwise become evident so that another
