Health

The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is reporting world AIDS deaths and new HIV infections have each dropped 21 percent since the peak of the AIDS pandemic, the most optimistic report the group has ever issued.

Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS program, says in a news release, “We have seen a massive scale-up in access to HIV treatment, which has had a dramatic effect on the lives of people everywhere.”

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People who take vitamins may be perceived as healthier, but new research finds those people often engage in decidedly unhealthy habits — possibly thinking the vitamins will make up for it.

A study in Taiwan discovered smokers who take vitamins smoked twice as much on average, and supplement-takers also made poorer food choices. Worse yet, the vitamin group was more likely to engage in risky behavior such as casual sex and binge drinking.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that the teen birth rate in the United States dropped to an all-time low in 2010.

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A new study finds those who’ve lost weight and kept it off tend to eat more often than heavier people — yet still took in fewer daily calories.

Lead researcher Jessica Bachman, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Marywood University in Scranton, PA, was part of a group that profiled 250 people who’d lost significant amounts of weight. The key was to learn how they maintain their weight loss in order to help others lose weight and keep it off.

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A multi-year study of more than 100,000 people by researchers in Taiwan found dental cleanings can be associated with a lower risk of heart attacks and strokes.

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I had two women friends that used Chantix at the same time to quit smoking. One suffered severe side effects that ceased when she quit using Chantix.. The other had no side effects at all.
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If you or your child gets a lollipop in the mail..be careful. Chances are it could be infected with chickenpox..
 

Federal prosecutors say vaccination-wary parents trading chickenpox-infected lollipops in a misguided effort to expose children to the disease are just plain suckers.

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A study of 20,000 US families found kids with fathers suffering from depression are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than other children.

Michael Weitzman at the New York University School of Medicine, who authored the study, said these findings are especially important at a time when unemployment is high and some military dads are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with emotional wounds.

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We’ve always been told to watch out for those laugh lines, but apparently a smile can make you look younger right now, if not in the future. A new study shows that people are more likely to underestimate the age of a person with a happy expression.

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Burger King and McDonald's have been rivals for years..and the winner is..us. With games for the kids and a healthy meal to boot (not to mention the crown), it's 5 stars in my ratings book.
Burger King's creepy king may be dead, but his crown is about to challenge McDonald's clown and become the newest symbol of the growing kids meal melee

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For years hospitals have been giving asthmatics (children and adults) Tylenol for pain relief. Now this. I understand the FDA is taking up the matter now, some thirty years after the fact. How about we get the FDA to scrutinize the drugs more closely before they grant their approval

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Today's vote could well determine a change in the works nationwide. Some say, even if the vote is a  "no" today, it's only a matter of time before it succeeds.

 
Mississippi voters will go to the polls today on a controversial “personhood amendment,” which would legally define a person under the state’s Bill of Rights as existing at the moment of conception.

If pa

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