New initiatives highlight World AIDS Day

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The Health Action AIDS campaign launched by Physicians for Human Rights wants to make sure the first $2 billion of a $15 billion AIDS package announced by President Bush is spent wisely. The money will be spent in Africa and Haiti. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also opened an AIDS office in Beijing, China.

China, Africa, Prevention, Medical assistance, Foreign medical assistance, AIDS (Disease)

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Addiction poorly understood by clinicians: experts say attitudes, lack of knowledge hinder treatment

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Many doctors believe addiction is a chronic disease just like diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure and should be treated as such. Research has shown that substance abuse changes the brain, making it harder for the addict to stop. Thirty years of research has proved that there are effective treatments for substance abuse.

Care and treatment, Physiological aspects, Addiction

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At the Cloning Circus Sideshows Abound, While Scientists Seek a Wider Audience

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Supporters and opponents of human cloning debated their positions at a scientific workshop at the US National Academy of Sciences in August, 2001. In animals, only 1% to 3% of clones animals survive to birth, and many animals cannot be cloned at all. Even those that are born have birth defects.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Cloning

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