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India not treating AIDS patients early: Global Fund

Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.

B vitamins found to slow progression of dementia

Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday,

Gov't: Spending to rise under health care overhaul

The nation's health care tab will go up — not down — as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the conclusion of a government forecast Thursday, which also predicts the increase will be modest.

UN accord on Millennium Development Goals summit

World powers have reached an accord, after weeks of tough talks, on a document to be adopted at a Millennium Development summit this month for which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is seeking billions of dollars of new funding.

J&J giving $200 million for health of women, kids

Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the health and lives of people in poor countries.

New Tool Aims to Predict Problems in Preemies

THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A newly developed
assessment tool may give doctors and parents a heads-up about the kinds of
medical problems that may face premature infants, researchers say.

U.S. appeals court puts on hold stem cell funding ban

A U.S. appeals court granted on Thursday an Obama administration request for a temporary stay that lifts a judge's ban on federal funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells.

J&J launches aid program for women, children

Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of a five-year, private sector effort to improve the health up to 120 million women and children in developing nations each year.

Health reforms trigger spending shift

New U.S. reforms are poised to dramatically shift the nation's healthcare spending, not only curbing Medicare costs but also pumping more money toward the private sector as roughly 32 million people gain coverage.

Avoiding sexual contact can worsen vulvovaginal pain: study

Chronic vulvovaginal pain affecting millions of women can be mitigated by her partner's response, but can also exacerbate the condition particularly if they avoid sexual activity, a Canadian study showed.