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Senators prepared to cast their first votes Wednesday on health-care reform, but even as partisan divisions hardened and contentious amendments stacked up, Democrats increasingly expressed optimism that they would succeed in passing a bill before Christmas. The initial amendments offered...

In spite of all achievements [made in fighting] HIV/Aids, the situation has not changed," said Christine Maureen Onyango, the head of HIV/Aids directorate in Jonglei adding "in fact, it is rising." Ms Onyango attributes the increase to limited resources, low...

Millions of people continue to be infected with HIV every year...Violations against human rights fuel the spread of HIV, putting marginalised groups, such as injecting drug users and sex workers, at a higher risk of HIV infection...The makeover is designed...

Despite Brazil's success in curbing HIV infection rates and securing almost universal access to treatment and prevention services, the battle to end the stigma, discrimination and fear that still surrounds the virus is far from won. These pictures highlight the...

Abbott Laboratories has settled U.S. patent litigation over its blockbuster cholesterol pill TriCor in a deal that allows generic versions of the drug in early 2011. The North Chicago -based drug giant said Monday that Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries can sell...

Scientists from Hospital Clinic Barcelona and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a technique that helped surgically remove rectal tumour without leaving any scar. Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopy Surgery) and TEM (Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery), surgeons could successfully...

But that night it was an issue that was in the spotlight, an issue that touches every sector and piles taboo upon taboo:  the challenges for women of HIV and gender violence.    It is an issue that desperately needs...

European researchers have found an association between mums who used the repellent in the earliest phase of pregnancy and an increased rate of "hypospadias" in the penises of their male children...The condition affects one to two boys in every 500...

Grains and cereals have been fortified with folic acid in the United States since 1998, as part of an effort to reduce the incidence of neural tube birth defects in babies. But a new study has raised safety concerns, linking...