Dental care, it is generally agreed, is the longest beauty plan in a persons life.

New medical technology has opened a widow through which kidney transplantation patients could do without taking life-long drugs as they do now.

New CD-ROM provides tools to improve media coverage

The following article is from Datamonitor. They report on industry trends and developments.There are a couple of points that I find most interesting.One is the estimate of HIV/HCV coinfection being 30% of HIV patients. This bodes well for having the...

Statement of CSPI Alcohol Policies Project Director George A. HackerFor too long, efforts to combat underage drinking on campus have been undermined by million of dollars in beer advertising on college sports--advertising that reaches millions of kids below the legal

The Mozambican Minister for Women's Affairs, Virgilia Matabele, on Tuesday urged women, as educators, mothers, and mobilisers of society, to remain united and work together in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to reduce absolute poverty and eradicate social exclusion

She is still hesitant about saying it but Fatou seems to have made up her mind. She will leave her husband if he carries on stopping her from speaking openly about being HIV-positive and helping her sisters.

Finance Minister Majozi Sithole on Wednesday painted a bleak picture of Swaziland's economy, made worse by an on-going humanitarian crisis, when he presented this year's budget to parliament.

A LOCAL church in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Services is to open a revamped AIDS treatment centre at Rehoboth where the US funded the facelift.

Resident doctors in the FCT ministry have no cause to fear about the recent dissolution of the FCT ministry, a spokesman of the doctors has said.

Now that peace has returned to Liberia, people living with HIV/AIDS are setting their sights on a new fight - the battle to contain the pandemic.

The suffering of millions of these women, no one is sure even how many million, is cloaked with shame and silence. They suffer from a condition known as obstetric fistula.

A new analysis of current medical opinion about treating hypertension, a leading cause of heart attack and stroke, emphasizes that physicians should first begin with behavioral approaches such as dieting, exercise, and weight loss, rather than automatically resorting to medication.

Botswana's anti-AIDS efforts are to receive an injection of US $35 million from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).