Many Americans suffer from prostatitis however the common treatment physicians give for this is antibiotics. However this treament to relieve the lower back and genital pain associated with this condition work in only a fraction of cases.

Researchers say it doesn't work with most men because they have a form called chronic nonbacterial prostatitis, which is particularly hard to treat. But, as the latest edition of Harvard Medical School's Perspectives on Prostate Disease describes, urologists are changing their thinking about nonbacterial prostatitis and its treatments

A Senegal-based aid group has won the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation prize this year for its campaign against female circumcision in West Africa.

Tostan, founded by American Molly Melching in 1991, was chosen for the highest humanitarian prize of $1.5 million for its novel approach in conveying the message that helped change a deep-rooted practice of female genital cutting in Muslim communities of West Africa

Prompted by the death of a 12-year-old girl who underwent female circumcision, health and religious authorities in Egypt have reportedly banned the dangerous practice in the nation.

The girl, Badour Shaker, died this month while undergoing the procedure her mother paid $9 for in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh. According to the girl's mother, the doctor tried to bribe her to withdraw a lawsuit accusing the physician of murdering her daughter, in return for $3,000, but she refused

Nova Scotia in Canada has become the first province in the country to launch a publicly funded vaccination program to protect young girls from the human papilloma virus (HPV).

On Wednesday, it was announced that beginning in the fall, Grade 7 girls will be given doses of the vaccine as part of a school based vaccination program. The vaccines are not mandatory and will require a consent form

Researchers from Japan have achieved a breakthrough in the field of vaccines by developing a type of rice that can carry a vaccine for cholera. The new discovery is seen as a revolutionary way to ease delivery of vaccines in developing countries, where storage is difficult due to lack of refrigeration.

The new rice vaccine, which is tested only in mice, causes immune reactions both systemwide in the body and in mucosal tissues such as in the mouth, nose and genital tract. Standard vaccines delivered by needle do not cause immune responses in the mucosal areas