NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An Internet-based blood-sugar monitoring program appears to help people with type 1 diabetes better manage their condition, researchers report.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some doctors are not making the grade when it comes to helping their patients ward off heart disease, a new survey suggests.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials warned the public on Friday about the risk of a rare type of muscle injury seen when the cholesterol drug simvastatin is combined with the anti-arrhythmia medicine amiodarone.

The challenges ahead in HIV and Aids care

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles residents are notorious for worrying about their waistlines and if two Los Angeles County Supervisors have it their way, calorie counting while dining out in the city may get easier.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic protein deficiency may cause delays in a child's brain development that improve little over time, a new study shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity may be contagious because most people feel good about themselves if they are about as heavy as the people around them, according to new research from an international team of economists.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although fever-related seizures can prove fatal for some children, such deaths are nonetheless extremely rare, a large study from Denmark shows.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Vast distances are a major hurdle to India's efforts to curb its soaring HIV rate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Wednesday unveiled a four-year strategy to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa that shifts focus from emergency response to long-term development.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A top U.N. official urged countries in Asia on Thursday to deal squarely and bravely with HIV/AIDS, which he said was being driven dangerously underground because of stigma and conservative attitudes.

India's vulnerable find freedom in condoms

The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Wednesday that California food company S&S Foods LLC, based in Azusa, is recalling approximately 153,630 pounds of frozen ground beef because it could be carrying E. coli O157:H7, a bacteria that can cause serious food poisoning.

Colorado U.S. Senate candidates Rep. Mark Udall (D) and former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R) on Tuesday both said they oppose Amendment 48, a state ballot measure that would ban abortion by defining "personhood" as beginning at fertilization, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reports. According to the News, Udall, who supports abortion rights, has long opposed the measure.

Research presented this week at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City examined the role of truck drivers in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, IRIN/Plus News reports.Alan Ferguson, a researcher at Constella Futures, and colleagues conducted a study that examined HIV vulnerability along the transport corridor linking Kenya's port city of Mombasa to Kampala, Uganda.

Massachusetts faces challenges in providing access to dental care for low-income residents because only 17% of dentists in the state are willing to accept new patients who have state-subsidized dental coverage, the Boston Globe reports. As part of the state's health insurance law, dental benefits were restored to about 540,000 low-income adults who had lost nearly all dental coverage in 2002.

The New York Times on Thursday examined "concern" among some Democrats that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who supports abortion rights, needs "to do more to regain the allegiance of Roman Catholic voters." In the Democratic primary earlier this year, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.

While the number of cases of tuberculosis among North Carolina residents has declined over the last two decades, cases among foreign-born residents are increasing, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Foreign-born residents account for more than 40% of the state's cases, and the number is increasing as the foreign population grows, according to the News & Observer.

Some researchers on Wednesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City examined how expanding national HIV/AIDS treatment programs could prevent the spread of HIV, the Wall Street Journal's "Health Blog" reports.

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