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AIDS Killing More Young Black Gay and Bisexual Men

*Reuters reports that AIDS is at an all time high.
| by EUR | 2011 |

The number of Americans newly infected with HIV remained stable between 2006 and 2009, but infections rose nearly 50 percent among young black gay and bisexual men, U.S. experts said on Wednesday.

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Eating Hot Dogs Leads to Cancer

Everyone knows hot dogs aren’t exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists have found they contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one’s risk for cancer.

| by Genuis | 2011 |

Washington Physicians Committee has issued a statement about the danger of hot dogs. This kind of fast food contains much salt, threatening with hypertension and other problems with the cardiovascular system.

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Plastic Surgery Makes Women Insane

An extraordinary thing has happened to a 47-year-old representative of the fair sex in South Korea.
| by Genuis | 2011 |

Xin Zhou made her first plastic surgery at the age of 28 years, and thereafter she regularly turned to plastic surgeons with some new ideas as to changing her appearance.

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Weight loss surgery may cure diabetes in many cases

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most obese people with diabetes will be cured of the blood sugar disease after undergoing weight loss surgery, a new review of earlier studies suggests.

| by LifeScript | 2011 |

An a report published in the Archives of Surgery, researchers say eight out of ten patients could stop taking their diabetes medications following a gastric bypass operation.

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First man ‘functionally cured’ of HIV

Since HIV was discovered 30 years ago this week, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally, the UN says.
| by Liz Goodwin |

There’s not much good news when it comes to this devastating virus.

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30 years after first AIDS cases, hope for a cure

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Sunday marks 30 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the United States.
| by MARILYNN MARCHIONE | 2011 |

And this anniversary brings fresh hope for something many had come to think was impossible: finding a cure.