Lifting the Veil From A Deadly Disease
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 24 -- When gynecologist Samia al-Amoudi was found last year to have breast cancer, a disease that still carries an intense stigma in this conservative country where women are forced to cover in public, she decided to share the details in her newspaper column, shocking many...
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The serious deterioration in the health of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority, has brought to the attention of the world something consciously concealed by the western
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There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This is what they have found: In a group of one thousand six hundred
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The specter of a global influenza pandemic has loomed a little larger in recent weeks with revelations that Chinese researchers found the deadly H5N1 virus strain last year in pigs, a crucial link in the mutation of the disease to a form that can infect
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People infected with AIDS/HIV should be notified to those closely related with them while keeping their illness shut from others, said a Chinese sexology expert in Guangzhou, capital of south China&#39;s Guangdong Province.
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Scientists have discovered a promising new method to fight a range of diseases by boosting the body's natural defenses against viruses.
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U.S. scientists have determined immune cells recruited to sites of infection can use more than one type of molecule to exit the bloodstream.
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Doctors and public health officials must weigh the benefits of knowledge against the risk of alarm.
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Scientists are one step closer to a vaccine against one of the world&#39;s most devastating diseases. Malaria causes more than 300 million cases of illness and claims at least a million lives every year.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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Doctors seeking to reduce the dangerous side effects of long-term HIV therapy have discovered that taking a breather is not better.
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Family ties have become a vulnerable part in the spread of AIDS virus and this basic social unit can also be a shield to contain the killer disease, said a noted
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The announcement of an effective malaria vaccine announced this week could become a life saver in areas of the world where deadly malaria claims millions of lives each year.
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With infection growth rates second only to Eastern Europe, the pandemic poses a mortal threat in the Arab world. But an effective response seems years away
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Scientists are now eyeing dust clouds as possible suspects in transcontinental spread of diseases.