A five-minute test could save thousands of lives from bowel cancer every year.
Ambitious South African HIV testing programme launched on Sunday could change the face of Aids across the whole of Africa.
Fertility treatments tend to increase the possibility of stillbirth, study shows.
A drug that combines four different medicines and could halve deaths from heart attacks and strokes around the globe will enter human trials soon.
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/ 30 September 2008
The use of Ritalin and similar drugs is extensive and, some argue, employed indiscriminately for children diagnosed with ADHD.
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
People who smoke the more powerful kind of cannabis known as skunk are 18 times more likely to develop psychosis than those who smoke milder forms.
A drive to tackle the tide of multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation last week.
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/ 5 November 2007
Multinational drug companies are targeting doctors in developing countries with dinners and lavish gifts, such as air conditioners, washing machines and down payments on cars, as incentives to prescribe their drugs, a new report revealed this week. The report from Consumers International says that self-regulation by the multinational drug giants has failed.
A key figure in the World Bank, said to have links to the Roman Catholic sect Opus Dei, was accused this week of undermining its commitment to the health of women by ordering the deletion of goals, targets and policies relating to family planning. uan Jose Daboub, the bank’s managing director, ordered staff to remove all references to family planning from its country assistance programme document for Madagascar.
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/ 20 November 2006
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, according to an Oxfam report released recently. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration — a groundÂÂbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs — was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.
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/ 1 December 2003
Esther is one of the least fortunate children on earth, but one of the luckiest of those, although she can’t know it. At first glance she looks to be two or three years old, but her eyes are too large, her head is too big. She is five years old, and although she has not been tested, the clinical officer has no doubt she has Aids.
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The United Kingdom will advise all new mothers to breastfeed their babies exclusively for six months before introducing solid foods.
The number of children orphaned by HIV/Aids has risen three-fold in six years to reach an all-time high of 13,4-million. Many are growing old before their years, looking after younger siblings, working to earn money and sometimes living on the streets, a major international report revealed on Wednesday.