According to findings of the 2009 National Communication Survey on HIV/Aids, there has been an increase in the number of people who have tested for HIV in the past 12 months. However, there has been a decrease in condom use.The survey examined the effectiveness of 11 South African HIV/Aids communication programmes and the key drivers [...]

LONDON  Eight people have died of anthrax infection from using suspected contaminated heroin, European health authorities said on Saturday, and one expert advised users to stop taking the narcotic immediately.Authorities said they believed a batch of heroin is circulating in Europe that is contaminated with anthrax, a fairly common bacteria whose spores can be used [...]

YOU often cough that never stopped, even to bleed? Also shortness of breath, fever, and weight loss? If yes, do not say anything. Do not underestimate these things! Because the condition can be symptoms of lung cancer, silent killer that is still difficult to cure. The lungs are organs in the respiratory system that functions [...]

LONDON,A British hotel chain in the human employing heated bed to help his guests get a good night’s sleep. Network Hotel Holiday Inn offers heating services with a human bed, not with the heater. The service providers are in bed with the guests. However, they wear a special sleep. They are dressed with a kind [...]

Adam Malik Maulana was 5 years old. However, he had to live without parents and suffering from HIV / AIDS. Knock funding problems, Adam was forced to move around the hospital for treatment.Adam is now being treated in hospital Koja North Jakarta since the day Saturday, January 16, 2010. Previously, he had been treated 3 [...]

AMMAN, Jordan Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz was afflicted by a severe stroke over the weekend and has lost the power of speech, his son said Sunday.Tariq Aziz was the international face of Saddam Hussein’s regime for several years. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for his involvement in the forced displacement of [...]

NEW YORK  Looks like doctors aren’t the only ones who should scrub before surgery. Bathing patients with an antiseptic and squirting medicated ointment up their noses dramatically cut the rate of dangerous staph infections afterward, researchers found.A second study found the antiseptic did a better job of preventing infections than the reddish-brown iodine solution that’s [...]

Hi-tech hospital labs running 24-hours-a-day and £25m for new ambulances are two of a number of NHS projects which will go ahead this year.Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has approved nine schemes costing £187m. The new Southern General Hospital in Glasgow will benefit from the labs which will provide haematology, biochemistry and mortuary services. Over the [...]

Smokers in Scotland are being urged by a government minister to quit the habit in 2010.Shona Robison said giving up smoking was the biggest single thing anyone could do to improve their health. The public health minister’s plea comes as Holyrood is expected to ban tobacco displays in shops and cigarette vending machines later this [...]

The moderate impact of the H1N1 pandemic is the “best possible health news of the decade,” but the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that more people – particularly in the southern hemisphere – could become sick this season and that it would be premature to say the health risk [...]