Man believed cured of AIDS says he's still cured

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'Berlin Patient' Says He Is Still HIV-Free

Aurora, Colo., Shooting Victim's Wife...More Health HeadlinesHIV Rising in Gay Men in Urban USFood-Poisoning Outbreak in Shelter Holmes Gave No Indication of Violent...Panel Urges Expanded Use of Antiretrovirals...End to AIDS Epidemic: Is It Near?In The NewsArthritisAllergiesDr. Richard BesserCold & Flu Home> Health'Berlin Patient' Timothy Brown Says He Is Still HIV-FreeBy LIZA A. MCCLELLAN, M.D.July 24, 2012

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Ruling ups support for Obama healthcare, still unpopular

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Once-Obese Women Still Face Stigma, Study Finds

HealthDay – 4 hrs ago WEDNESDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Even after they shed their excess pounds, formerly obese women still have to contend with "anti-fat prejudice," according to a new study.

Researchers asked young women and men to read about women who had either lost 70 pounds of excess weight or had stayed the same weight (weight-stable), and who were either currently obese or currently thin.

The participants were then asked about some of the women's attributes, including their attractiveness.

"We were surprised to find that currently thin women were viewed differently depending on their weight history," study leader Janet Latner, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said in a news release from the University of Manchester, in England. "Those who had been obese in the past were perceived as less attractive than those who had always been thin, despite having identical height and weight."

The participants also showed greater bias against obese people after they had read about women who had lost weight, compared to after reading about weight-stable women -- regardless of whether the weight-stable women were thin or obese.

The findings, published May 29 in the journal Obesity, suggest that the stigma of obesity is so powerful that it can continue even after an obese person has lost weight.

The researchers said they were particularly troubled by the finding that participants' negative attitudes towards obese people increased when they were falsely told that body weight is easily controlled.

"The message we often hear from society is that weight is highly controllable, but the best science in the obesity field at the moment suggests that one's physiology and genetics, as well as the food environment, are the really big players in one's weight status and weight loss," study co-author Kerry O'Brien, from the University of Manchester School of Psychological Sciences and Monash University in Melbourne, in Australia, noted in the news release.

"Weight status actually appears rather uncontrollable, regardless of one's willpower, knowledge and dedication. Yet many people who are perceived as 'fat' are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to escape this painful social stigma. We need to rethink our approaches to, and views of, weight and obesity," O'Brien noted.

More information

The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases offers advice about choosing a safe and effective weight-loss program.

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Many Still Tanning, Despite Dangers, Survey Finds

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Preventable diseases still ravage children: study

"Newly-born babies are seen inside the nursery room of a hospital in 2010. Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children younger than five in 2010, a paper in The Lancet medical journal said Friday. (AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe)" title

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Many Women Still Smoke During Pregnancy

HealthDay – 1 hr 34 mins ago THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Too many American women still smoke during their pregnancies, a new report finds, and rates of such smoking vary widely depending on race.

Researchers found that almost 22 percent of pregnant white women aged 15 to 44 smoked cigarettes within the previous 30 days, compared with just over 14 percent of pregnant black women and 6.5 percent of Hispanic women in the same age range.

The rate of illicit drug use during pregnancy, however, was higher among black women (7.7 percent) than among white women (4.4 percent) or Hispanic women (about 3 percent), according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration study, released Wednesday.

Rates of alcohol use during pregnancy were about the same for black and white women (12.8 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively), and much higher than among Hispanic women (7.4 percent), according to the study.

The findings are based on an analysis of data from the administration's 2002 to 2010 national surveys on drug use and health.

"When pregnant women use alcohol, tobacco or illicit substances they are risking health problems for themselves and poor birth outcomes for their babies," Pamela Hyde, administrator at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said in a government news release.

"Pregnant women of different races and ethnicities may have diverse patterns of substance abuse," Hyde said. "It is essential that we use the findings from this report to develop better ways of getting this key message out to every segment of our community so that no woman or child is endangered by substance use and abuse."

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The March of Dimes has more about the dangers of drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

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Study: Gene Therapy for HIV Safe, But Effectiveness Still Unclear

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Study: Gene Therapy for HIV Safe, But Effectiveness Still Unclear

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Analysis: Still in the frame, the camera defies smartphone onslaught

Reuters – 1 hr 14 mins ago SINGAPORE (Reuters) - While most attention in the gadget world is on the breakneck pace of innovation in mobile phones, tablets and computers, another device has resolutely refused to die: the camera.

Despite the onslaught of camera phones

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