conference in Hong Kong said that the region is facing a resurgence of HIV cases among men who have sex with men that will not subside without increased government efforts, the
reports (Freeda,
, 2/19). The conference was organized in partnership with Hong Kong’s
, the
and included about 50 government officials responsible for HIV/AIDS and MSM programs, as well as other experts.
According to officials at the conference, discriminatory laws, Read the rest of this entry »

‘Sitting month’ is the Chinese tradition for postpartum customs. Available studies indicate that some of the traditional postpartum practices are potentially harmful for women’s health.
However, no intervention study aiming at postpartum practices has been performed. In this paper we evaluated the effect of a health and nutrition education intervention, which focused on improving postpartum dietary quality and optimal health behaviors.
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Entertainment Tonight has the latest…
, she reveals if the issue of kids was the reason for her divorce from
— and whether or not she used medical intervention to get pregnant.
“We did not do IVF,” she says of her and hubby
. “A year ago, we tried [the fertility drug] Clomid for a couple of months unsuccessfully. But by the second month, I was like, ‘Ahhh! I hate this!’ I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it’s crazy-making.”
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We have talked to her about her poor behavior, we’ve isolated her, we’ve established a reward chart, and we’ve given her more responsibilities and more choices — such as letting her help herself to snacks when she is hungry — but nothing has worked for long.
We managed her tantrums and other poor behavior by giving timeouts to her toys (and sometimes to her), but her behavior got much worse a month ago. Now she hits us, kicks us and sometimes Read the rest of this entry »

ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2008)
— A home-based program to improve exercise and diet led to significant, clinically meaningful improvement in body weight and physical function among older long-term cancer survivors in preliminary findings from the RENEW (Reach-out to ENhancE Wellness) trial, according to Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Ph.D., from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Department of Behavioral Science.
The data are being Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not at all uncommon for American industries to tell the government that everyone — corporations and consumers alike — will be better off if their trade is subject to fewer regulations and less direct government intervention. The market introduces efficiencies that the government can’t produce, and competition ultimately weeds out bad actors that permit low standards or dishonest practices.
Of course, it’s also not at all uncommon, Read the rest of this entry »