 Africa Information - January 6, 2009
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According to a study reported in the Wall Street Journal, male circumcision reduces the risk that men will contract HIV through intercourse with infected women by about 70 percent. The study was conducted on over 3,000 HIV-negative South African men, ages 18 to 24. Half of them were selected to be circumcised, while the other half remained uncircumcised |
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a drug, 'BiDil' for the treatment of heart failure in African Americans. According to The Associated Press report, the FDA defended their stance by calling it a step toward "the promise of personalized medicine |
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Nearly six months after a devastating tsunami left over 200,000 people dead or missing in Asia and Africa, survivors are suffering from unusual lung and sinus infections, and even a paralyzing brain infection. Reuters reports doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine the case of a 17-year-old girl from Indonesia who was 2.5 kilometers inland when a wave from the Dec. 26 tsunami swept her up and carried her another kilometer |
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Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter Safura Abdool Karim interviewed 120 of her former schoolmates for a science project about whether they suffered problems after playing computer games |
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William J Brown - All Headline News Staff A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gave approval Wednesday to the first medicine targeting a specific racial group |
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