Nadja Benaissa, lead singer with No Angels, once one of Germany's most popular pop groups, is under arrest, accused of causing grievous bodily harm by infecting one or more men with the HIV virus.
Public Health: HIV returns to the health agenda in developed nations
In recent years, it seems as if the focus on HIV/Aids has been on developing countries. But the number of cases in developed countries has been rising, too, and some say that "comfort sex" to counteract downbeat feelings over the econo...
Public Health: pollution causes smaller babies
It's difficult to know why this is news: after all, it is known that smoking during pregnancy causes smaller babies and even deformities. And we know that second-hand smoke is as dangerous - in some studies moreso - than actually smoking the cig...
Public Health: melanoma triggered by mutant gene, say researchers
Women in their twenties - when the craze for a tan is at its height - are putting themselves at greater risk of skin cancer says the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK. Sunbeds are regarded as a major trigger for the mutant gene that causes...
Public Health: Tuberculosis rises around the world
Once thought to be in decline - or at least under control - tuberculosis, or TB, is making a comeback - this time in a new and drug resistant form.
Despite extensive education programmes demonstrably reaching their targets, laziness defeats attempts to defeat the disease.
Public Health: Malaysian doctors prepare for competition
The Malaysian Health Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, has told local medical practitioners that their markets will be opened up to registered...
Public Health: Denmark compensates irregular hours workers for cancer risk
The Danish government has launched a scheme to compensate shift and other irregular hours workers for cancer which, they say, is increased by the...
Public Health: Geneva café owners fume over smoking ban
Last year, the government of the Geneva Canton banned smoking in restaurants, bars and cafés. The Tabacs rebelled, the federal government has cri...
Public Health: WTO says elderly at increasing risk of undiagnosed STDs including AIDS
The World Health Organisation says that erectile dysfunction drugs are increasing the active sex life of the elderly and sexually transmitted dis...
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