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BISHKEK (AFP) - A court in Kyrgyzstan has jailed nine doctors for infecting children with HIV in several hospitals across the south of the country, a judicial source said, cited by the Aki news agency. (Read the full post about ‘Nine Kyrgyz doctors jailed for infecting kids with HIV: report (AFP)’…)

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has given the green light for an oral antibiotic to be sold without prescription for the first time, in a move that pushes back the barriers to self-medication.

Patients aged 16 years and over will be able to buy the azithromycin pill, sold as Clamelle by Icelandic drugmaker Actavis, to treat chlamydia, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said on Wednesday.

It is designed for conversion to an act by people who have tested positive for the sexually transmitted pollution and wish nay symptoms.

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexicans who migrate annually to the United States change their sex study habits significantly on person arrived there, and increase their risk of catching HIV/AIDS, according to a Mexican/Califorian study. (Read the full post about ‘Mexican migrants increase promiscuity in US: study (AFP)’…)

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Injecting drug users are denied HIV drugs in some places in the world, making it much more difficult to affair the epidemic, experts told a conference on Tuesday.

Drug users have spouses, children and often multiple sex partners, fabrication them a major vector of HIV transmission. In Thailand, they are randomly rounded up, publicly humiliated and jailed, said Paisan Suwannawong of the non-government Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group.

"Police have to meet their quotas so they arrest IDUs (injecting drug users) and throw them behind bars.

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NEW YORK - New advice that men over 75 should not be screened for prostate cancer won’t quell the long-standing controversy more than the usefulness of the blood test for the disease, cancer experts said Tuesday.

“It stokes the contest, I think,” uttered Dr. Charles Ryan, a prostate cancer specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.

And several experts are looking ahead to new research that may provide more peculiar guidance for all age groups.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of experts who guide national health care, issued its hearsay Monday based in succession a review of past research.

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TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay news) — Light to moderate exercise — just walking a few blocks or even dancing — can help prevent the abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation in those most vulnerable to it — older the many the crowd, a new study finds.

Atrial fibrillation, in which the two upper chambers of the heart tend to yerk rather than beat steadily, is the most common heart rhythm abnormality. It is especially common after age 65. The danger is that blood can pool, causing clots that move to the seat of life or brain.

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - With new infections of HIV running at an average of 7,500 a day, the mission to brake the spread of the lethal virus is exploring new, even controversial paths, the world AIDS conference has heard. (Read the full post about ‘HIV: High infection tally sparks search for new strategies (AFP)’…)

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Playing a specially designed video game can help adolescents and young adult cancer patients pertain more closely to their prescribed treatment, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.

"Targeted video games can help improve the lives of young people with cancer, most importantly improve their adherence to their usage," Dr. Pamela M. Kato of the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health.

Adherence is a major problem in this years of discretion group, Kato and her colleagues point out in their report.

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MEXICO CITY - AIDS experts praised the United States on Tuesday for ending its two-decade ban on HIV-positive people entering the country, and said travel restrictions by dozens of other countries are hurting efforts to control the epidemic.

U.S. President George W. Bush signed legislation last week repealing a rule that prevented HIV-infected immigrants, students and tourists from receiving U.S. visas without special waivers. The ban also held up U.S. adoptions of children with HIV. Seven nations still have any outright ban on entry for HIV-infected people, and more than 65 impose some travel restrictions on the estimated 33 million people worldwide living with the virus.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In addition to conventional treatments aimed at improving survival, most cancer patients use "complementary methods" (CMs) to relieve symptoms and side effects and increase overall wellness, according to findings from a large study.

"We receive thousands of phone calls each year about CMs at the American Cancer Society (ACS) national cancer information center, and our web pages on CM are among the most popular on our website," lead author Dr.

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