HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) — A clinical trial will examine
whether a new cancer treatment is as effective in humans as it’s proven to
be in mice, say researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical
Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Reuters - A drug developed using
nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment
may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S.
researchers reported on Sunday.

AP - President Bush said Saturday that religious charities, partly financed with federal money, have helped reduce homelessness, found jobs for former inmates and helped combat malaria and HIV/AIDS overseas.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — With all of the physical, emotional and
hormonal changes in their lives, some teens are especially prone to
depression.

Reuters - The test commonly used to
screen men for prostate cancer may be more likely to miss
tumors in obese men, a new study suggests.

AP - Health officials are trying to persuade doctors to offer HIV tests to nearly every patient in a New York City community hit harder than most by AIDS.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) — Women with metastatic breast
cancer who developed an immune response to an investigational vaccine
lived twice as long as those who didn’t have an immune response, new
research shows.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) — The latest data on HIV
infection across 33 states finds new diagnoses jumping by 12 percent
annually between 2001 and 2006 among young gay and bisexual men.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have devised a
new breast-imaging technology that appears to be as accurate as MRI scans
but several times cheaper.

AFP - The city of New York on Thursday launched an HIV-screening campaign that aims to test every adult in the Bronx, the city’s borough most affected by AIDS, the health department said.