Health/Science

ONE in six teenage girls in Britain has been pregnant by the age of 18, figures suggest. Forty-six per cent of the pregnant teens decided to keep their baby, while 36 per cent had abortions, […] […]

RELAXING at home can have deadly consequences for women who sit for more than six hours a day during their leisure time, regardless of how much they exercise, scientists say. A new study from American […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Mexico is facing a sort of perfect storm of floods that breed mosquitoes, prompting a big increase in the number of hemorrhagic dengue cases, the country’s top epidemiological official said Wednesday. The disease’s Type […] […]

LONDON: A man with “locked-in syndrome”, who can move only his head and eyes, has begun a legal test case to establish that his wife could end his life. Since suffering a stroke five years […] […]

Chest pain. Must be indigestion … I’ll just ignore it and it’ll soon go away …” Unfortunately, such thinking can prove fatal. Why? Because this is the popular misconception of a heart attack. “People die […] […]

THE fear of speaking openly about sex and sexual behaviours in the Caribbean is a major factor in the growing number of HIV/AIDS infected persons across the region, says director of UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support […] […]

Vienna, AUSTRIA — An estimated 5.2 million people were receiving life-saving HIV treatment at the end of 2009, according to the latest update from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO estimates that 1.2 million […] […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Thomas Mukone wonders exactly how he would tell his wife that he wants a circumcision at age 41, even with the government in Zimbabwe urging adult men to get snipped to […] […]

WHILE many pre-teens were poring over sappy romance novels, Karen Carpenter spent her childhood in a liberal household where she was given free reign to browse through her uncle’s Playboy collection at will and speak […] […]

WASHINGTON—A gel containing the AIDS drug tenofovir reduced HIV infections in women by 39 per cent over two and a half years – the first time such an approach has protected against sexual transmission of […] […]