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UN chief names special advisor for Haiti cholera
The UN chief on Friday named a US health expert as special advisor in fighting Haiti's cholera epidemic, which has claimed more than 7,750 lives and is widely blamed on UN peacekeepers.
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Dec 29, 2012 |
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Your new weight-loss resolution: drive less
(HealthDay)— If weight loss is your New Year's resolution, making another vow—to drive less in 2013—could help, a new study suggests.
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Dec 27, 2012 |
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New UN AIDS deputy hails Brazil progress
The newly appointed deputy chief of the United Nations HIV-fighting program, Brazilian Luiz Loures, hailed his own country's achievements in the fight against the deadly global epidemic in an interview published Saturday.
HIV & AIDS
Dec 22, 2012 |
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Rate of new HIV infections drops for first time among black women, CDC reports
(HealthDay)—For the first time, the rate of new HIV infections among black American women declined between 2008 and 2010, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
HIV & AIDS
Dec 21, 2012 |
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Public obsession with obesity may be more dangerous than obesity itself, UCLA author says
Much has been made about who or what is to blame for the "obesity epidemic" and what can or should be done to stem the tide of rising body mass among the U.S. population.
Overweight and Obesity
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Researchers see successful results against human leishmaniasis with a more efficient and economic vaccine
A research coordinated by the UAB has succeeded in testing a vaccine against leishmaniasis. The vaccine was tested with the best animal model existing, the golden hamster, and can be produced at low costs by using insect ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Study: Curbing car travel could be as effective as cutting calories
(Medical Xpress)—Those considering how to maintain a healthy weight during holiday festivities, or looking ahead to New Year's resolutions, may want to think twice before reaching for traditional staples like cookies or ...
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Dec 18, 2012 |
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UN launches major cholera appeal for Haiti
The United Nations on Tuesday launched a $2.2 billion appeal for a campaign to halt a cholera epidemic in Haiti, widely blamed on UN peacekeepers, which has killed more than 7,750 people.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 12, 2012 |
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Bugs without borders: Researchers track the emergence and global spread of healthcare associated Clostridium difficile
Researchers show that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI in the early to mid-2000s was caused by the spread of two different but highly related strains of the bacterium rather than one as was previo ...
Genetics
Dec 09, 2012 |
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New oral drug candidate for African sleeping sickness
A new oral-only treatment for sleeping sickness has entered Phase II/III clinical study in patients with late-stage sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and soon in Central African Republic (CAR). ...
Medications
Dec 06, 2012 |
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New poll shows US public supports continued investment in Federal Nutrition Assistance Program
A new poll from researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that the U.S. public broadly supports increasing or maintaining spending on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly ...
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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New clinical trial explores use of smartphone application for postpartum weight loss
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, physician-researchers at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center MacDonald Women's Hospital are exploring the use of "Lose It!," a free Smartphone application (app), for postpartum ...
Overweight and Obesity
Dec 05, 2012 |
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New Alzheimer's drug studies offer patients hope (Update)
For Alzheimer's patients and their families, desperate for an effective treatment for the epidemic disease, there's hope from new studies starting up and insights from recent ones that didn't quite pan out.
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dec 03, 2012 |
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WHO: Two more cases of new virus in Jordan (Update)
International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 30, 2012 |
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Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
(AP)—Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because ...
HIV & AIDS
Nov 30, 2012 |
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