Topic: Nordic Countries

Denmark has registered a doubling of cases of the venereal disease chlamydia over the past decade, Danish health officials said Thursday, saying the rise was very worrying."In 2000 there were 15,000 registered cases (of chlamydia), and in 2009 the number had increased ...
Tales of flings at center of Assange case spotlight Sweden's unusual rape lawsA starry-eyed admirer was flattered to be invited to dinner with a man she considered a champion of free speech. Another woman supported the cause by lending her apartment to ...
Let's findsex using the condom, because they acknowledge that it does not give100per cent protection against the various sexually transmittedCochrane Review on health care concluded that, with consistent use,condoms are about 80 per cent effective in reducing the risk of HIVOrganisation noted ...
Only 56 percent of young Swedes always use a condom when having casual sex, a study published Monday showed, as health authorities launched a campaign to promote condom use in an attempt to halve new HIV infections.The study by the National Board ...
Specific types of comorbidities and increasing numbers of comorbidities worsen fatigue severity and symptom scores in HIV/AIDS patients, and health care providers must be able to identify causes of fatigue to intervene more effectively, according to study findings published in the August ...
molecule that transforms spare antibodies into HIV killers could provide a new way to treat AIDS and other viruses.. "Most of the time these antibodies don't do much, so we thought it would be useful if we could teach them to recognise ...
molecule that transforms spare antibodies into HIV killers could provide a new way to treat AIDS and other viruses.. "Most of the time these antibodies don't do much, so we thought it would be useful if we could teach them to recognise ...
As you all know, there are more than 33 million people living with AIDS worldwide. Still, European researchers have developed 'a predictive software system for HIV that could help extend the lives of victims of the killer disease.' The scientists working on ...

Health Highlights: April 3, 2008

In 2007, more than 2 million children worldwide were living with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), about 290,000 children under age 15 died of AIDS, and 12.1 million children in sub-Saharan Africa lost one or both parents to AIDS, says a ...