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 More than 56,000 in U.S. infected with AIDS each year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New estimates show that least 56,000 people become infected with the AIDS virus every year in the United States -- 40 percent more than previous calculations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday.
German patient well after transplant of two arms
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - German doctors have succeeded in transplanting two complete arms onto a 54-year old man in what their hospital said was the world's first operation of this kind.
TB treatment inadequate in some "hot zones"
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In certain "hot zones" where multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is prevalent, patients treated with standard TB drugs have high rates of failure and relapse, new research indicates.
House asks FDA to turn over Vytorin study analysis: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The House Energy and Commerce committee wants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to turn over the results of an analysis about the potential links between cancer and cholesterol drug Vytorin, the Wall Street Journal reported.
'Hygiene hypothesis' may be tied to bowel disease
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who grow up in a spic-and-span home may have a higher risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease, a study suggests.
Low hep B vaccination rates seen in newborns
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a survey conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that only about 50 percent of newborns receive a dose of hepatitis B vaccine before hospital discharge.
Exercise in a pill? Researchers find two
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who genetically engineered "marathon mice" that could run for hours have found two pills that can mimic the effects -- and they have already developed a test for the drugs in case athletes try to cheat with them.
Terminal cancer patients not given chemo info
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with incurable cancer are often not clearly informed of what they stand to gain from palliative chemotherapy, according to the study results published in BMJ Online First. As a result, British investigators say, patients may lack sufficient knowledge make a decision based on informed consent.
Need for hip replacements is high: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Both hip and knee arthritis are common among older adults, but the need for hip replacements seems to far exceed that for knee replacements, new research suggests.
What to do when someone is injuring themselves
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Australian researchers have developed the first-ever guidelines for offering "mental health first-aid" to people who engage in "cutting" and other types of non-suicidal self-injury.
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