A large group of soldiers returning from Iraq have been diagnosed with bronchiolitis, a disease affecting the small airways of the lung, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center physicians who will present their findings at the American Thoracic Society's 2008

Babies born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants, according to a new analysis of nearly 7 million U.S. live births published online this week in the Springer journal Maternal and Child

The Texas A&M Health Science Center is pleased to provide the latest installment of "Hometown Health" with the following tips:School of Rural Public Health"Happy Birthday" for hand washingEveryday objects like the gas pump, shopping cart and door handles are prime

Food and Drug Administration - May 21, 2008Richard Klein & Kimberly Strublehttp://www.aegis.org/news/fda/2008/FD080502.html On May 9, 2008, [A ...

On Sunday the world marked the International Aids Vaccine Awareness Day. This is yet another of those numerous efforts to create awareness about this disease and highlight efforts being made to find a cure and a medical preventive method.

THE sustainability of a Keetmanshoop project run by people infected and affected by HIV-AIDS will hang in the balance when its current donors pull out at the end of this year.

Zimbabwe has the capacity to further reduce the prevalence of HIV and Aids if given adequate support, the Japanese Ambassador to Zimbabwe has said.

What we are showing today is that there is a significant difference between men who were treated with radiation and those who weren't," study co-author Dr. Gregory P. Swanson, of Cancer Care Northwest Spokane, Wash., said during a Tuesday teleconference

Maxi-K gene therapy is a gene transfer that improves erectile dysfunction. Two studies using the gene were presented Tuesday at the American Urological Association's annual meeting, in Orlando, Fla.

Here are suggestions to help prevent ingrown toenails, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine:

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons offers these suggestions:

A new unique way of tackling the impact of the HIV and Aids scourge in Kenya is shaping up in a remote village in Kitui District.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong, Spirituality

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes Of Health; NIH News; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 CONTACT: Laura Sivitz, 301-402-1663, e-mail:sivitzl@niaid.nih.gov [A hr ...

Human Rights Watch - May 16, 2008 Nada Ali http://www.aegis.org/news/hrw/2008/HRW080504.htmlThe Human Rights Council reviewed Zambia's report under its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism in ...

HIV/AIDS Experts Call for New Ideas, Increased Funding on 25th Anniversary of Paper Identifying Virus

Lamin Ceesay, president of Santa-Yalla society, has said that an estimated number of 33 million people are infected with HIV/AIDs, world wide.

GOVERNMENT has assured people living with HIV and Aids that there are adequate anti-retroviral drugs in all public health institutions.

Older people, orphans and vulnerable children living in multigenerational households affected by HIV/AIDS are the target of a new project in five Southern and Eastern African nations.