HIV infections increasing among homosexuals, drug users, prostitutes

NEW YORK — New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don’t seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said M… more

PepsiCo to stop selling sugary drinks from schools by 2012

NEW YORK — PepsiCo plans to remove sugary drinks from schools worldwide, following the success of programs in the U.S. aimed at cutting down on childhood obesity. The company said Tuesday it will rem… more

Some seniors should stop driving

TORONTO — Society needs to do a better job helping seniors drive for as long as is safe and helping them adapt when the time comes to stop, says a new editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Jou… more

Americans get too many medical tests despite risks: report

CHICAGO — Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest… more

Women who took the pill lived longer

LONDON — Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a … more

Mini clothespin for the heart

ATLANTA — Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A stud… more

Jump in obesity, C-sections may be playing role in childbirth-related deaths

WASHINGTON — Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pa… more

Giant colon promotes screening

Um . . . OK . . . it’s an embarrassing topic for many people. You know, butts and intestines and bowel movements and all… more

Hodgkin's response studied

An international team of cancer researchers has found a way to predict which Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients won’t respond w… more

A bed of nails

Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Shirt off, I ease myself down onto a cotton foam mat with hundreds of quarter-inch plastic spikes attac… more
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