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Lice affects over 100 million people worldwide each year (© NEJM)

Scabies pill also works against resistant lice: study

PARIS (AFP) - Ivermectin, a pill prescribed for the skin disease known as scabies, also gets rid of hair lice that are resistant to conventional lotions, a study published on Thursday says.

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Two Inuit children return from school in Iqaluit (© AFP/File - Andre Forget)

Tuberculosis strikes hard among Canada's Inuit

OTTAWA (AFP) - Tuberculosis is ravaging Canada's Arctic with infections among Inuit peoples doubling since 2004 and rates now 185 times higher than non-natives, an indigenous group said Wednesday.

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Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director gives a press conference in Shanghai (© AFP/File - Philippe Lopez)

E.Europe in spotlight at Vienna AIDS conference

VIENNA (AFP) - AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday.

Published 5 hours, 39 minutes ago

South Korean women hold up placards reading, "Stop a crackdown on abortion that violates women's rights" (© AFP/File - Jung Yeon-Je)

S.Korea abortion debate heats up after crackdown

SEOUL (AFP) - Abortion has suddenly become a hot topic in South Korea after years of near-indifference, with a group of doctors seeking a crackdown on pro-life grounds and the government eager to boost the birthrate.

Published 5 hours, 52 minutes ago

The maps will direct truck drivers to clinics that treat AIDS in different regions of Africa (© AFP/File - Tony Mwaniki)

New maps guide African truckers to AIDS clinics

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - African trucking routes, long known as pathways for spreading HIV across borders, have been drawn in new maps that also direct drivers to clinics that treat AIDS, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

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The British Acupuncture Council said it was "surprised" by the findings (© AFP/File - Jean-Pierre Muller)

Chinese medicine 'no help to get pregnant'

LONDON (AFP) - Couples who use acupuncture and Chinese medicine to try and increase their chances of having a baby were warned there was no evidence it worked by British fertility experts Wednesday.

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A young couple is silhouetted by the light from the full moon (© AFP/File - Koca Sulejmanovic)

Men likelier than women to enjoy sex in old age

PARIS (AFP) - Men are more than twice as likely as women to be sexually active in old age but good health is the key for both to feeling naughty, says a study published Wednesday by the British Medical Journal.

Published 22 hours, 44 minutes ago

A nurse draws  blood from a patient for an HIV test in Johannesburg (© AFP/File - Paballo Thekiso)

Britain gives one million pounds to S.Africa for condoms

LONDON (AFP) - Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world's worst-affected country ahead of the 2010 World Cup.

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A street vendor prepares papaya for her daily customers in Yangon (© AFP/File - Khin Maung Win)

Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya

MIAMI (AFP) - Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.

Published 1 day, 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

Public officials are eyeing a tax on soft drinks as a chance both to influence diets and to replenish tax coffers (© AFP/Getty Images/File - Donald Bowers)

NY seeks 'fat tax' on sodas to fight rising US obesity

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York leaders are pressing for a so-called fat tax on the soft drinks industry, saying that sweet beverages are responsible for an upsurge of obesity across the United States.

Published 1 day, 4 hours, 46 minutes ago

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