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Archive for November, 2008

Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so (AP)

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Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so (AP)

In this Nov. 28, 2007 file photo, a social worker displays earrings and pendants made using the AIDS awareness symbol at a counseling center in Chennai, India. As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs. (AP Photo/M. Lakshman, File)AP - As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

URL: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_challenging_aids

 

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Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders (AP)

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Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders (AP)

Gen. Peter Chirarelli, vice chief of staff for the Army, accompanied by occupational therapist Eileen Hayes, tests out a driving simulator used for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients to test their reaction skills, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, at Fort Campbell, Ky. Chirarelli  toured the Warrior Transition Unit, as well as medical and rehab facilities for soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)AP - Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.

URL: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/soldier_stress

 

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China pledges to fight AIDS discrimination (AP)

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China pledges to fight AIDS discrimination (AP)

A volunteer hands out pamphlets with information on  AIDS prevention in Shenyang, China Saturday Nov. 29, 2008. After years of denying that AIDS was a problem, Chinese leaders have shifted gears dramatically in recent years, confronting the disease more openly and promising anonymous testing, free treatment for the poor and a ban on discrimination against people with the virus. (AP Photo)AP - Chinese health authorities and the U.N. AIDS agency pledged to fight discrimination against people with the disease in China with the unveiling Sunday of a massive red ribbon, the symbol of AIDS awareness, at the Olympic Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing.

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Pregnant Indians risk passing diabetes to babies (Reuters)

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Pregnant Indians risk passing diabetes to babies (Reuters)

Reuters - Up to 15 percent of pregnant women in India are developing diabetes, raising the risk of their children developing the disease, said experts on Sunday, who blamed factors including malnutrition.

URL: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081130/hl_nm/us_diabetes_women

 

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HIV/AIDS cases on the rise in Malaysia: report (AFP)

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HIV/AIDS cases on the rise in Malaysia: report (AFP)

An HIV patient feeds his disabled fellow at a community home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, in 2007. Malaysia's HIV/AIDS infection rates are on the rise, dealing a blow to the country's bid to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to eradicate the virus, according to a UN official.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Malaysia’s HIV/AIDS infection rates are on the rise, dealing a blow to the country’s bid to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to eradicate the virus, according to a UN official.

URL: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/diseases/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081130/hl_afp/malaysiaunaids

 

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