According to the research carried out by American and British scientists, green tea may be helpful in decreasing the risk of HIV infection. It may also decelerate the spread of the virus in patients who have already been infected.

Ceprotin is a protein-based biologic medication fighting wit a rare clotting disorder. Recently the government has approved of this drug.

Ceprotin has been licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA describes this medication as a concentrated form of Protein C, and thereore it can attack a genetic defect that allows potentially life-threatening blood clots to appear in the patient’s organism.

According to the latest American study, people whose friends accept drinking and driving are much more prone to drink and drive themselves, too.

The research carried out at the University of Michigan involved nearly 3 500 young adults. The study also discovered that individuals who are convinced that there are only several negative consequences of impaired driving - arrest or license suspension, for stance - are more probable to engage in such hazardous behavior.

Food is the most widespread product emerging in television adverts that are directed at American children and teenagers. According to the research conducted by a Kaiser Family Foundation, many of those advertisements are for junk food. The study was released last Thursday.

In this research, the largest ever to analyze television food marketing to young people, the scientists examined over 1 600 hours of US television programming broadcast in 2005, the Washington Post informed.

According to the latest study conducted in Panama, something really harmless like watching food adverts on television may activate a sequence reaction in the brain that may result in obesity.

The most important international scientists dealing with obesity have hailed the research as a breakthrough in the understanding of weight problems. ‘This research constitutes evidence that merely looking at junk food can set in motion a chemical process in the brain that results in (or may worsen) weight problems,’ explained Dr Juan Transfacio, president of the South American Anti-Obesity Guild.

According to the report of the Houston Chronicle, seasonal flu might have been the cause of the disease among a few passengers who were aboard a Continental Airlines flight Monday from Hong Kong to Newark, New Jersey.

The flight crew observed that several passengers appeared sick in the course of the flight and informed US health authorities immediately. The plane was detained on the tarmac for about 2 hours after it landed in Newark. After precise analysis, health officials cleared the ill passengers to enter the United States.

According to the report of Japanese scientists, there are signs of resistance to two popular antiviral medications widely used to fight the flu strain called influenza B.

The two medications, zanamivir (Relenza) and oseltamivir (Tamiflu), have been successful in the treatment of the flu and are frequently used, especially in Japan, according to the report in the April 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

According to the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) presented on Wednesday, the amount of multi-drug and extreme medicine resistant strains of TB in South Africa was currently unknown.

"We know that there are quite a lot of MDR and XDR TB, even though we don’t know the amount," informed Dr Fabio Scano, a tuberculosis specialist from the WHO.

According to the latest research, in the process of aging of patients suffering from obesity-linked type 2 diabetes, the risk of getting Parkinson’s disease increases.

Actually, the Finnish research indicates that surplus weight may constitute a good explanation to the question why diabetics are at greater risk of getting the neurological disorder.

According to the reports of the scientists, due to the fact that the number of people having type 2 diabetes has rocketed over the past fifty years, so has heart disease connected with the blood sugar illness.

"The proportion of heart disease caused by diabetes has risen nearly sixty per cent over time," explained the lead author Dr Caroline S. Fox, a medical officer at the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study. "In comparison to other risk factors for heart disease, diabetes is becoming more of an issue," she added.