Archive: 24/07/2017
Women with HIV in Cameroon still stigmatised
Blandine, a 28-year-old mother of a baby girl, sits restlessly on a chair in a women's health centre in Cameroon's capital, not knowing how or what to feel as she waits for an HIV test.
Jul 24, 2017
AAP counsels pediatricians to focus on clusters of cardiometabolic risk factors to help obese kids
Because obesity affects one in six U.S. children and adolescents, there is a pressing need to identify the subset of overweight or obese kids at the highest risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic complications and ...
Jul 24, 2017
Weight in adolescence may affect colorectal cancer risk
A new study has uncovered a link between being overweight or obese in adolescence and an increased risk of developing colon cancer in adulthood. Obesity was also associated with an elevated risk of developing rectal cancer. ...
Jul 24, 2017
Tai chi may help prevent falls in older and at-risk adults
An analysis of published studies indicates that tai chi may help reduce the number of falls in both the older adult population and at-risk adults. The findings, which are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics ...
Jul 24, 2017