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AFP - High doses of vitamin C injections reduced the size of tumors and slowed cancerous growths by about 50 percent in laboratory mice, according to US research.

Reuters - Governments and health communities
need to ramp up male circumcision to prevent HIV infection,
particularly in vulnerable countries in eastern and southern
Africa, researchers and advocates said on Monday.

AFP - Psychological hurdles to encouraging circumcision among men to help stem the HIV pandemic are not as bad as feared, according to data presented at the International AIDS Conference here on Monday.

AP - Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn’t see a doctor or get the right medicine.

Reuters - Prostate cancer screening is not likely
to benefit men over age 75 and is not recommended for them
while more evidence is needed to determine whether younger men
benefit from early detection of the slow-growing disease, a
panel of experts said on Monday.

Reuters - Prostate cancer screening is not likely
to benefit men over age 75 and is not recommended for them
while more evidence is needed to determine whether younger men
benefit from early detection of the slow-growing disease, a
panel of experts said on Monday.

Reuters - Foreign-born children in the United
States and U.S.-born children of immigrant parents get less
exercise than other kids, raising their risk of obesity and
other problems, a study showed on Monday.

AP - Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests.

AP - Cartoons about the psychiatrist’s couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum. A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists.

Reuters - Adding estrogen to routine medication
helped reduce the number of psychotic symptoms in women with
schizophrenia, researchers said on Monday.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) — Getting too little sleep or
not spending enough time in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is associated
with being overweight among children and teens, a new U.S. study.

Reuters - Studies have shown that children and
teens who fail to get the proper amount of sleep each night are
more prone to obesity, and researchers now think it may be
linked to a particular stage of sleep.

AP - Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye of 7-year-old Megan Garvin — a last-ditch shot at saving her sight in that eye.

Reuters - Participation in a childcare
program appears to increase the likelihood that a child will be
obese when he or she shows up for the first day of
kindergarten, researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.

Reuters - Erectile dysfunction may be a
feature of normal aging in men, while urinary or bowel function
doesn’t necessarily decline with age, according to a Dutch
study.