NEW DELHI, 27 February 2008 (PlusNews) - The silence and taboo surrounding anal sex is putting millions of men and women at risk of HIV, delegates attending the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, heard this week.
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As the U.S. flu season soars, the CDC says this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t match two of the three main types of flu bugs now in circulation.
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When doctors at Shady Grove Fertility Centers told a 34-year-old construction supervisor that he had a low sperm count and that was likely why he and his wife had been unable to conceive, the news came as something of a shock.
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation’s leading health problems.
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