Health/Science

Mygripe SCIENTISTS have found a genetic explanation for why men are more likely than women to suffer heart attacks and strokes. The British team found a cluster of genetic variants on the male sex chromosome […] […]

THE STATISTICS regarding prostate cancer in Jamaica are quite alarming. Prostate cancer has been the leading cause of cancer diagnosis, as well as cancer death in Jamaican men for several decades. Jamaica has been quoted […] […]

Mygripe  – Between 1.5 and two per cent of antenatal clinic attendants are estimated to be HIV-positive, according to statistics from the National HIV/STI Unit of the Ministry of Health. In Jamaica, mother-to-child transmission occurs […] […]

IF life with HIV/AIDS were not challenging enough, the Chinese government seems determined to make it harder by suppressing claims for compensation. When Tian Xi was nine years old he contracted HIV/AIDS from a blood […] […]

HEALTH campaigners have warned that surgery is being seen as an easy option to tackle obesity following the release of figures showing weight-loss operations have soared in Britain in the past five years. Figures from […] […]

AN AIDS activist group filed a workplace safety complaint against Larry Flynt on Thursday, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his stable of sex stars by not requiring they use condoms. […] […]

Darmstadt, Germany (CNN) — A German pop star was found guilty Thursday of causing grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm for failing to tell sexual partners that she was infected with HIV. Nadja Benaissa, […] […]

A QUEENSLAND man will stand trial charged with helping an elderly friend commit suicide using drugs allegedly obtained in Mexico. On the last day of Merin Nielsen’s committal hearing on charges of aiding suicide and […] […]

THE doctor at the centre of Britain’s “Bloodgate” scandal has recalled how a British rugby player shouted at her to cut him. This was so that he could continue the pretence he had been injured […] […]