The Northeast Texas Public Health District is giving free immunizations to kids up to 18, May 16th through the 20th.

The combination of serum pepsinogen and anti-H pylori antibody provides a good predictive marker for the development of gastric cancer, finds a study in the latest issue of Gut.

The latest issue of Annals of Internal Medicine reports that rifaximin prevents travelers' diarrhea with minimal changes in fecal flora, and suggests more liberal chemoprophylaxis against this disease.

Laparoscopic-assisted and open surgery are equally effective in the short term with similar long-term outcomes, however, there are impaired short-term outcomes after laparoscopic-assisted anterior resection for cancer of the rectum, finds this week's The Lancet.

Researchers Say Survivors Have More Physical and Emotional Problems

UGANDA will not attain meaningful and sustainable development unless efforts are boosted to improve the health of women and children, the health minister has said.

Thank you, John, for that generous introduction.

Single Shot of Depo-Provera More Effective Than Other Remedies

One week's treatment with an extract of the kudzu vine reduced alcohol consumption by heavy drinkers, according to a study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Middle-aged men may suffer more frequently from heart disease than women, but testosterone may not be to blame.

An inexpensive and routine blood test may help predict a person's risk of heart attack or heart-related death as reliably as more complicated tests, a new study suggests.

South African deputy president Jacob Zuma has called on the public to know their HIV status, in order to maintain good health and access freely available anti-AIDS treatment.

The Global AIDS Fund over the wekend agreed to donate US $157 million towards Tanzania's fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.

The State Minister for Primary Education, Mr Nyombi Tembo, has launched a Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education (Phase) programme.

As Ugandans celebrate the 9th year since the set-off of the Universal Primary Education (UPE), there are still many more children that have kept out of schools.

President Yoweri Museveni has promised to increase salaries of nurses but cautioned them against being rude to patients.

An innovative child care initiative to bring the right care into people's homes by "bundling" health services in a way that best suits family needs is showing significant progress in several West African countries and could save millions of lives

A candlelight vigil at the weekend remembered South African police officers who died from AIDS-related illnesses.