- MONDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) — Programs to lower cholesterol
from childhood on could lower rates of coronary artery disease and save
lives, according to a review from a team at the University of California,
San Diego, School of Medicine.

Current approaches to lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease are
“too little, too late,” according to the physician-researchers. [...]

Dr. Paul Dougherty inserts a rolled-up intraocular lens implant through a tiny incision in the eye of Megan Garvin at his office in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. A few air bubbles, later removed, are visible. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

WASHINGTON - Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye [...]

CHICAGO - Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests.
Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly 70,000 children simply found even lower levels of activity among immigrants.
Almost 18 percent of foreign-born children with [...]

Workers pick up a mosquito at Sanaria Inc. facility in Rockville, Maryland, October 26, 2007. (Jim Young/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Continuous administration of a
drug dubbed AMD3100 improves survival of mice infected with
West Nile virus, scientists at Washington University School of
Medicine have found.

The drug allows T cells of the immune system to cross the
blood-brain barrier [...]

A man holds a pillbox with the AIDS ribbon on sale at the Global Village in Mexico City. Psychological hurdles to encouraging circumcision among men to help stem the HIV pandemic are not as bad as feared, according to data presented at the International AIDS Conference here on Monday.(AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
Psychological hurdles to [...]

Victor Manuel Serrato, 43, sits on his bed at Las Memorias, a shelter for people living with HIV, in Tijuana, northern Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008. Serrato, a nineteen-year HIV bearer, was deported two months ago from the U.S. after having lived there for 34 years. Experts on AIDS and immigration said the U.S. [...]

A woman passes by a poster showing the AIDS red ribbon at the Global Village in Mexico City. Leaders in the quest for a vaccine against HIV acknowledged Monday that their mission was dogged by many problems and cautioned that any breakthrough lay years in the future.(AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
Leaders in the quest for [...]

Interactive graphic on AIDS in the world as a global conference got down to business in Mexico City after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged wealthy donor countries to live up to UN and G8 commitments to achieve universal access to anti-HIV drugs by 2010.(AFP iactiv)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) -
Former US president Bill Clinton delivered [...]

A doctor checks the blood pressure of a patient in Los Angeles, July 30, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
An estimated 11.4 million
Americans with at least one chronic illness have no health
insurance, new research published in the Annals of Internal
Medicine shows.

These people are much less likely to have a regular place
to get medical [...]

Workers put the finishing touches to a float made from lemons and oranges during the lemon festival in Menton, southern France, February 15, 2008. (Pascal Deschamps/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Vitamin C might be useful to treat
cancer after all, according to a U.S. study published on Monday
in which injections of high doses of it greatly reduced the
rate of [...]