India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)
November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
AFP - Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
Source:India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight
(AFP)
Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so (AP)
November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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.
Source:Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so
(AP)
Study Recruiting From Alzheimer's-Prone Families (HealthDay)
November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) — The adult children of people with
the rarer, inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease are being sought for a
new study to better understand the biology of the brain disorder.
Source:Study Recruiting From Alzheimer's-Prone Families
(HealthDay)
Pregnant Indians risk passing diabetes to babies (Reuters)
November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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.
Source:Pregnant Indians risk passing diabetes to babies
(Reuters)
Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders (AP)
November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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.
Source:Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders
(AP)