Topic: South Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People infected with hepatitis B virus are around twice as likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers reported on Tuesday.Hepatitis B was already known to cause liver cancer and some scientists had suspected it might cause lymphoma, too. The study, ...
A weather chart evaluating the national mood in Great Britain for the week of March 24, 2008 is presented. ?24.3m) lNew breast cancer hope as scientists identify gene linked to spread of disease lChad and Sudan sign agreement to end cross-border attacks ...
Religion news in briefAn Israeli government decision to relocate a hospital ward from its planned site on top of ancient graves has sparked heavy criticism from Israel's medical community, while marking a victory for the country's ultra-Orthodox religious political parties.Construction on an ...
UN praises US and SKorea for lifting HIV/AIDS travel ban, urges 57 countries to followThe United Nations praised the United States and South Korea on Monday for lifting travel bans on people with HIV and urged 57 other countries with travel restrictions ...
UNITAID, an international drug purchase facility, decided on Monday to create a " patent pool" to help facilitate the production of generic AIDS medications for low- and middle-income countries.Scheduled to begin operating in mid-2010, the patent pool is expected to make more ...
Activists Tuesday filed a petition with South Korea's human rights watchdog, seeking an end to mandatory HIV tests for some foreign workers.A group representing HIV carriers, a migrants' trade union and three other rights groups said in their petition that the policy ...
Increasing rates of HIV/AIDS among Hispanics in the United States point to a simmering public health crisis, experts tell the Washington Post.. Hispanics in Washington, D.C. have the highest rate of new AIDS cases in the United States, according to a Kaiser ...
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