The United States joined 31 other countries in approving a boosted global campaign for healthier eating habits and exercise which is aimed at cutting heart disease and other chronic illnesses.
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Influenza activity appears to have peaked in the United States, with the number of states reporting cases dropping sharply, according to federal officials.
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A new HIV/AIDS survey in Kenya suggests that infection rates in the east African country are significantly lower than what global health organizations have estimated. The new HIV infection study, conducted as part of the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), with funding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, concludes that about one million of the country's 30 million people are HIV positive.
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Brazil said on Thursday it had won the biggest price reductions in five years for drugs used in its anti-AIDS program, which has been acclaimed as a model for the developing world.
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Death rates from some of the most common cancers are dropping, according to the latest projections compiled by the American Cancer Society (news - web sites). Americans this year are less likely to die from lung, colon, breast, and prostate cancer, ACS experts report in Cancer Facts & Figures 2004, an annual estimate of cancer incidence and death rates in the United States.
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In one of the biggest advances to come from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in its 16-year history, researchers have unlocked at least part of the mystery of how tumors flourish undetected by keeping their presence a secret from the sentries of the body’s immune system.
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A new variety of the SARS virus that has emerged in southern China appears to be less contagious than the strain that killed more than 800 people worldwide last year, a Hong Kong scientist says.
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The flu has killed at least 93 young Americans so far this winter -- about double the count as of last month -- but there are indications that the epidemic may have peaked, federal health officials said yesterday.
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Australian researchers say the common cold may hold the key to curing a deadly form of skin cancer. The scientists say that when a virus that causes colds is injected into malignant melanoma cells, it destroys them.
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Soft drinks should be eliminated from schools to help quell the nation's obesity epidemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a statement published yesterday.
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People who gulp several cups of coffee a day can greatly lower their risk of developing diabetes later in life, even if they are overweight, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday.
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Researchers in California have found a virus that could possibly provide an inoculation against type 1 diabetes.
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Weizmann Institute scientists have destroyed malignant tumors in mice using a chemical that occurs naturally in garlic. The key to the scientists' success lies in the development of a unique, two-step system for delivering the cancer-wrecking chemical straight to the tumor cells.
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Christmas has never tasted so good to Ramon Franco. The 4-year-old Dominican boy feasted on solid food on Christmas Day for the first time since undergoing a lifesaving operation two weeks ago to fix a serious birth defect in his colon.
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