According to a new study, when it comes to sperm counts, French men are not that active as they used to be. The number of sperm in one milliliter of the average 35-year-old Frenchman’s semen fell from about 74 million to about 50 million, according to researchers who made analysis from years between 1989 and 2005. Basically, […]
In the early ’90s when South Africa’s Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died. Two decades later, the clinic is the biggest anti-retroviral, or ARV, treatment center in the country and sees between 600 to 800 patients […]
According to a new report by government health officials that zeroes in on one of the remaining hot spots of HIV infection in America, more than half of young people in the United States are infected with HIV. The worse, they are not aware of it. Young people ages 13 to 24 account for 26 percent of all new HIV […]
A Pew Research Center study shows that the U.S. birthrate has hit its lowest point in close to 100 years since data started being collected, dropping to 63.2 babies per 1000 women from the Baby Boom generation high of 122.7 babies per 1000 women. The decrease in births seems to be the trend in the […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday, during a ceremony in recognition of World AIDS Day, the new plan to fight AIDS on a global level. She described her “blueprint” as a gathering of global efforts that will focus on improving treatment and prevention practices in order to “get ahead of the pandemic”. The […]
In a statement the agency said this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suspended operations at a New Mexico food producer linked to salmonella-tainted peanut butter that has sickened at least 41 people this year. The FDA said it had suspended Sunland Inc’s food facility registration “in the interest of public health,” following the national outbreak and a history of food […]
According to a new federal report issued Thursday, the nation’s diabetes problem is getting worse, and the biggest jump over 15 years was in Oklahoma. The study revealed that the diabetes rate in Oklahoma is more than tripled, and Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama also have dramatic increases since 1995. The South’s growing weight problem is the main explanation, said Linda Geiss, lead […]
A widely used, safe and cheap medication, Ivermectin, that is best known to Americans as a remedy for heartworm in dogs appears to thwart bedbug outbreaks. Bedbugs are common in the tropics and were rare in North America until a few years ago. There aren’t a lot of good surveys to show just how bad the problem is, but […]
According to a new study, Danish cancer patients taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were 15 percent less likely to die, of cancer or any other cause, than patients who were not on the popular medications. Regardless of a person’s age, cancer type, tumor size or whether it had spread, the pattern of progress is still evident. […]
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