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In a move sure to stir controversy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended on Monday that a more aggressive approach to treating high cholesterol in children should be implemented, even if it means prescribing …

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AIDS Increasing When Men Have Sex With Men
June 30, 2008 – 5:52 am | No Comment

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new report on the growing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the population of men having sex with men, or MSM, a term public …

Boy, 7, Gets Entirely New Immune System to Cure Rare, Fatal Disease
June 3, 2008 – 11:17 pm | No Comment

Seven-year-old Rhys Harris has been declared cured of a fatal genetic disease so rare that it was discovered only seven years ago and only seven people are known to have it.  The disease, Nuclear Factor …

1 in 4 Teen Girls Has STD
March 11, 2008 – 6:20 pm | 35 Comments

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just issued the alarming findings of its first ever survey of teen health which included sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In the study, the National Health …

HIV+ Women Want a Baby
February 29, 2008 – 4:13 pm | 3 Comments

One quarter of women with HIV want pregnancy and motherhood in their future. This statistic was examined in a recent study which also showed that the age of the women who were diagnosed played a …

US To Extend Global AIDS Program
February 28, 2008 – 7:23 am | No Comment

A late-night compromise on Tuesday led to the verbal vote on Wednesday that gives approval to the US Foreign Affairs Committee to extend US funding of the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which was enacted …

Women Approve of Anti-HIV Gel
February 27, 2008 – 6:06 am | No Comment

In an effort to combat the spread of HIV, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have found an experimental anti-HIV gel is safe for …

When Discrimination Appears in the Medical Profession
February 20, 2008 – 5:25 pm | No Comment

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus has been a part of modern society for at least the last 25 years. In that time, numerous reports have emerged detailing how a non-infected person can not obtain the virus …

Anti-HIV Drug Trial Produces Mixed Results
February 18, 2008 – 6:12 pm | No Comment

The Population Council announced from both New York City and Johannesburg, South Africa, recently the findings of Phase 3 of a clinical trial on a formula called Carraguard, a microbicide gel made from the seaweed …