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Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 04:10 PM CST

A placard showing a couple saying 'Yes, thanks to the treatment our son could get out of drugs' is among others on display in Geneva, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Switzerland will decide Nov. 30, 2008, in a popular vote whether to put a heroin distribution program on a permanent legal footing. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.

Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 10:58 AM CST

In this Nov. 28, 2007 file photo, a social worker displays earrings and pendants made using the AIDS awareness symbol at a counseling center in Chennai, India. As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs. (AP Photo/M. Lakshman, File)AP - As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

China pledges to fight AIDS discrimination (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 11:01 AM CST

A volunteer hands out pamphlets with information on AIDS prevention in Shenyang, China Saturday Nov. 29, 2008. After years of denying that AIDS was a problem, Chinese leaders have shifted gears dramatically in recent years, confronting the disease more openly and promising anonymous testing, free treatment for the poor and a ban on discrimination against people with the virus. (AP Photo)AP - Chinese health authorities and the U.N. AIDS agency pledged to fight discrimination against people with the disease in China with the unveiling Sunday of a massive red ribbon, the symbol of AIDS awareness, at the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing.

Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 06:31 AM CST

Gen. Peter Chirarelli, vice chief of staff for the Army, accompanied by occupational therapist Eileen Hayes, tests out a driving simulator used for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients to test their reaction skills, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, at Fort Campbell, Ky. Chirarelli toured the Warrior Transition Unit, as well as medical and rehab facilities for soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)AP - Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.

India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 10:25 PM CST

Indian sex workers prepare for a night's work at their home inside the redlight area of Kamathipura in Mumbai, on November 25. The Indian government currently estimates that between two million and 3.1 million people are living with HIV-AIDS, sharply down on previous calculations that triggered fears of a South Africa-style epidemic.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

Swiss back heroin prescription for addicts (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 03:34 PM CST

A small kit of supplies containing syringes, bandaids and antiseptic pads waits to be used by a drug addict inside a safe injection site on Vancouver, British Columbia's eastside August 23, 2006. Swiss voters on Sunday backed a scheme allowing heroin addicts to obtain the drug under prescription, angering conservatives who believe crime will rise as result. (Andy Clark/Reuters)Reuters - Swiss voters on Sunday backed a scheme allowing heroin addicts to obtain the drug under prescription, angering conservatives who believe crime will rise as result.

Pregnant Indians risk passing diabetes to babies (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 07:58 AM CST

Reuters - Up to 15 percent of pregnant women in India are developing diabetes, raising the risk of their children developing the disease, said experts on Sunday, who blamed factors including malnutrition.

Cancer Rates Drop in the U.S. (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 05:25 PM CST

Time.com - For the first time in a decade, researchers say cancer rates are falling in the U.S. - at the same time that cancer death rates are also on the decline

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