Top 10 crises of the year: HIV/AIDS

Estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of 2009's Top 10 humanitarian crises, according to Doctors Without Borders. Other crises that made the list released...

UK Sanger Institute: Breakthrough In Skin & Lung Cancer Research

British scientists at the Sanger Institute in the UK have made a startling breakthrough in cancer research, having identified tumors that cause healthy cells to turn cancerous in both skin and lung cancer patients....

Philippe Padieu Story Featured on Oprah December 9th

The story of Philippe Padieu was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show today, December 9th, and five of the women that Philippe infected with HIV were on the Oprah show to talk about how Philippe had tricked them and...

Obama's Safe Schools Czar Promoted "Fisting" to 14 yr-olds

Home schooling, a safer alternative to this kind of public school sex education? I find this quite outrageous. " Barack Obama's Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education...

China toys with your health

Barry Artiste China is one of the biggest manufacturer of goods in this global economy, relying on it's ability to provide the world a host of manufactured and processed goods on the cheap. With Christmas fast...

Teenage girl blogged about her painful road to death

For one year 18 year old Regine Hansen Stokke in Norway blogged about her fight against cancer. Thousands of people followed her blog  up to the day of her death. A longer version of this story can be found in...

No cure for death

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Gray has asserted that humans will soon live for ever but biologist Leonard Guarente rejects this claim but still thinks that it might be possible to extend human life by...

Health Care and Bipolar Disorder

This article deals with BiPolar Disorder. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe,...

Lessons from H1N1: Anticipate new pathogens

So far, the H1N1 virus did not become the pandemic that some feared it  would be. Its deadliness was not much more than that of the common flu, and most of those who died from it were people with weakened immune systems. That however is no reason for...

Milking a Herd of Bunnies - the Latest in Downsizing

You might think that milking a herd of bunnies is the latest in downsizing farm operations, but no it is an extremely high tech operation.  A biotech firm in the Netherlands, Pharming, has developed a breed of...

US Imprisoned IRS Whistleblower Pleas for Medical Care

Some might remember Sherry Peel Jackson, 45, of Stone Mountain, Georgia as the former IRS Revenue Agent turned tax protestor who was sentenced to four years in Federal Prison in February of 2008 for failure to...

World AIDS Day 2009: South Africa's New Policy for HIV & AIDS

Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, announced new policies to combat the nation's AIDS epidemic today, on World AIDS Day. South Africa's new policies for HIV & AIDS include treatment for all HIV-positive babies under one-year-old, mobilize testing for HIV, and reverse...

A Reason to Dine: 'Pick up your fork and fight HIV'

  Organized by the Columbus AIDS Task Force (CATF), A Reason to Dine: 'Pick up your fork and fight HIV' is taking place at select Columbus, Ohio restaurants today, December 1, in honor of World AIDS Day...

Clinton announces U.S. to host 2012 International AIDS Conference

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the United States will host the 2012 International AIDS Conference. The announcement came one day before World AIDS Day 2009, celebrated today, December 1."...

World AIDS Day 2009: A Preview Of Events & Messages Of Hope

December 1st 2009 marks World AIDS Day, in which we come together to remember those who have suffered or died from AIDS, and celebrate the medical advancements in treating this global disease. There are currently...

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