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Recognizing the risks of alcohol: April is Alcohol Awareness Month
	The Healthy Life Extension Community The healthy life extension community is discussed and referenced in many places on this website. Understanding a new community is always a fairly slow ...

	UN Chief Urges Global Fight Against TB By EDITH M. LEDERER (AP) - The U.N. secretary-general on Monday urged stepped-up action to stop the global tuberculosis epidemic that is killing 4,000 people every day. In a message marking World TB Day, Ban Ki-moon said "the man-made multi-drug resistant strain and its even more lethal form, extensively drug-resistant TB, are both spreading." "That is why the theme of this year's day is `I Am Stopping TB'," he said. "This is a fight that can be won only with the collective commitment of millions of individuals _ donors and researchers, doctors and health care workers, patients and family members." Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that attack the lungs. It is spread through the air and typically requires six to 18 months of treatment. The extensively drug-resistant strain is virtually untreatable in poor countries.
	Golf prolongs life - Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. [Press Release 2008-05-30] Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The death rate for golfers is 40 per cent lower than for other people of the same sex, age and socioeconomic status, which correspond to a 5 year increase in life expectancy. Golfers with a low handicap are the safest. It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for the health, but the expected health gains of particular activities are still largely unknown. A team of researchers from Karolinska Institutet has now presented a study of the health effects of golf - a low-intensity form of exercise in which over 600,000 Swedes engage.
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	Only 19 pct of Asians in need get AIDS drugs - WHO NEW DELHI, April 17 (Reuters) - Only 19 percent of Asians who need AIDS drugs receive them, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said on Tuesday, calling for a surge in treatment to meet a 2010 goal for universal access.
	Healthy old Europe The population of Western Europe is aging, and the region's birthrate, looking ever more anemic, is well below the replacement level. The specter haunting Western Europe today is the prospect of inexorable demographic decline.
	Abbott to cut AIDS drug price in 40 poor countries CHICAGO, April 10 (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc. <ABT.N>, widely criticized for aggressive pricing of its AIDS medicines in developing countries, said on Tuesday it would slash the price of a key AIDS drug by more than half in more than 40 poor countries. Abbott said it would offer its drug Kaletra at a price of $1,000 per patient per year -- a price lower than generic versions -- to governments of more than 40 countries with low and low-middle income, as defined by World Bank criteria
	HELENA - Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Adolescence is a crucial period in life and implies multiple physiological and psychological changes that affect nutritional needs and habits. The HELENA proposal includes cross-sectional, crossover and pilot community intervention multi-centre studies, as an integrated approach to the above-mentioned problem.
	WHO - Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza
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	Jeffrey Sachs Calls For Mass Distribution Of Insecticidal Bednets To Fight Malaria Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and one of the world's leading economists, has, along with other global experts, called for mass distribution of insecticidal bednets to fight malaria. The call is made in a Comment published early Online and in an upcoming edition of the Lancet. Professor Sachs, along with director of the Earth Institute's Malaria Programme Awash Teklehaimanot ,and Professor Chris Curtis from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say that long-lasting insecticidal bednets (LLINs) are a major way of controlling malaria, and that protection can be achieved for as little as $0.60 per person per year. The nets have two kinds of protective effects -- one for the people directly under them, and one for the community at large.
	Rwanda to urge male circumcision in AIDS fight 28 Sep 2007 10:31:07 GMT Source: Reuters KIGALI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Rwanda plans to encourage male circumcision to help the tiny African nation curb HIV/AIDS rates, a senior official told Reuters on Friday. Studies on the continent have found circumcision reduces the risk of HIV transmission from females to males by 60 percent. However, U.N. research carried out last year said only about one in every five Rwandan men had undergone the procedure. "We want to embark on a sensitisation campaign to have males in our country circumcised as one way of combating HIV/AIDS," Anita Asiimwe, managing director at the Health Ministry's Treatment and Research AIDS Centre, told Reuters.