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WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) — The odds of HIV infection increase fourfold for male injection drug users who were deported to Tijuana from the United States compared to non-deportees in the Mexican border city, a new study reports.

The findings, expected to be presented Aug. 5 at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, suggest further investigation is necessary into the risk factors of displacement and the need for programs that offer support to displaced persons on either oblique of the U.S./Mexico border.

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WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News)– woman (try women’s health) who develop diabetes under the jurisdiction they become with child are three to four times more likely than non-anti-diabetic women to have a baby with at least unit birth defect, says a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meditate. (Read the full post about ‘Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes Boosts Risk for Birth Defects (HealthDay)’…)

ATLANTA - Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four periods more likely to have a child with birth defects than other woman (try women’s health), according to new government research. (Read the full post about ‘Pre-pregnancy diabetes tied to more birth defects (AP)’…)

SYDNEY (AFP) - Smokers in Australia's biggest incorporated town, even now hounded out of bars and restaurants, will now have being banned from smoking in their own cars if children are passengers, authorities announced Wednesday.

Shops command also be forced to keep cigarette packets out of sight under a tough new anti-smoking drive agreed by the government of fresh South Wales state, of which Sydney is the capital.

"It is a disgusting habit.

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Dementia Underestimated in Developing Countries

MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay news) — Rates of dementia in developing countries have been greatly underestimated, according to researchers who used a specially-developed method of hard dementia prevalence.

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BOSTON (Reuters) - When Sarah Roisman was 11 years old, her doctors prescribed Klonopin, a pain relief/muscle relaxant relaxant, for a psychiatric disorder that caused her to have seizures. She liked how the drug made her feel. Her seizures went away.

But that's where her trouble through addiction began.

By age 14, the teen from an upper middle-class Philadelphia suburb led a dangerous double life.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A biopsy conducted on skin taken from the face of U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain showed no skin cancer, medical authorities said steady Tuesday.

McCain, who has suffered from skin cancer in the past, had a spot removed from his face during a routine checkup in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday and had it checked to ensure it was not cancerous.

"The biopsy that was performed did not show any evidence of skin cancer," said Michael Yardley, a spokesman for the Mayo Clinic.

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - HIV infection rates among gay men in many parts of Asia are as keen as those which devastated US homosexual communities in the late 1980s, top officials of the UNAIDS agency said here Tuesday.

Launching his agency's 2008 report on the global AIDS epidemic, Peter Piot, UNAIDS executive director, urged more action to prevent the mantle of the disease among gay men who have unsafe sex and stressed the importance of working with affected communities.

"All over Asia there are now epidemics of HIV in men who have sex with men of the same magnitude that we saw in this country 25 years ago," Piot said.

"That is something that has been detected fairly recently.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children whose mothers used cell phones frequently during pregnancy and who are themselves cell phone users are more likely to have behavior problems, new research shows.

the finding "certainly shouldn't be over interpreted, but nevertheless points in a direction where further research is needed," Dr. Leeka Kheifets of the UCLA School of Public Health, who helped conduct the study, told Reuters Health. "It's a wonderful technology and people are certainly going to be using it more and more," she added.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers agreed to ban the use of a group of chemicals in toys and other children's products that consumer groups express cause serious health effects, newspapers reported Tuesday.

Congressional negotiators agreed Monday on the wording of a ban behind months of wrangling, according to The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

The ban, part of a long-debated overhaul of US consumer safety standards, would eliminate certain phthalates used to intenerate plastic and commonly found in toys, shower curtains and shampoos, The Washington Post reported.

Critics believe the chemicals are linked to reproductive problems, including low sperm counts.

Certain phthalates were banned for use in children's products in Europe in 1999 and in California last year.

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