Health

About 2.5 million people became infected with HIV-AIDS in 2007. Over two million people died of the incurable disease last year, Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations said. He stressed out that almost 70 percent of all HIV-positive people still have no access to the retroviral therapy.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy released a report claiming that depression, teenagers and marijuana make up a dangerous mix that results in dependency, mental illness and suicidal thoughts.

Russian physiologist Leonid Kitaev-Smyk has stated that most male diseases are caused by women who adhere to provocative clothes and behaviour. As a result, the Western civilization gradually turns into the society of sexually unsatisfied men and eventually unsuccessful and physically unhealthy men, the scientist considers.

Two studies released in honor of World Autism Day on April 2 offered new information about autism and risk factors on the physical and financial levels.

The world statistics show that three fourths of people suffering depressions are women and only one fourths are men. Thus, depression is a female disease? Not quite. Women are just more prone to it than men for some reasons.

Smoking marijuana and having oral sex increases the risk of developing throat cancer according to the new study conducted by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

The study of sexually transmitted diseases in a new age group showed shattering results: it turned out that at least one in four U.S. teenage girls has the venereal disease, or in other words about 3 million teens are contracted.

To look beautiful and fabulous is a professional duty for every star. Sometimes celebrities may go too far in their attempts to remain eternally young.

Children can reduce their body mass index by spending less time at TV and video games, researchers from the University of Buffalo found.

A study of almost 4000 elderly men has drawn the strongest link ever between low testosterone and mood.