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CHINA
Chinese president vows to mobilize society to improve AIDS control
30 November 2009: Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged to mobilize the whole society to improve AIDS/HIV control, when taking part in a gathering of AIDS prevention volunteers here Monday, a day before the 22nd World AIDS Day. It was the fourth time in six years that Hu met medical staff, researchers, AIDS patients and volunteers ahead the day. These high-profile moves showcased the government's resolve to tackle the growing AIDS problems in the country and help remove the social stigma against HIV-positive people.
JAPAN/AUS
Can thinking about food make you fat? 2 December 2009: Japanese researchers have found that simply thinking about eating something sweet could cause you to store fat. They have conducted tests in mice and believe the findings will probably apply to humans too. A professor of cell biology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Mark Febbraio, has been reviewing the paper by a group of researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan. "What this paper is suggesting is that you have an anticipatory response in skeletal muscle to start taking up glucose to use for energy just by thinking about it," he said.
US
Trying to explain a drop in infant mortality
26 November 2009: Seven and a half months into Ta-Shai Pendleton’s first pregnancy, her child was stillborn. Then in early 2008, she bore a daughter prematurely. The lives and pregnancies of black mothers like Ms. Pendleton, 21, are now the subject of intense study as researchers confront one of the country’s most intractable health problems: the large racial gap in infant deaths, primarily due to a higher incidence among blacks of very premature births.
UK
'Toothless' NHS regulator accused over damning safety report
30 November 2009: The NHS regulator was accused of being toothless after refusing to take fresh action against the worst hospitals identified in a new guide. The dispute followed a report in which at least 12 trusts in England were criticised for significantly underperforming on standards such as patient safety and infection control. Dr Foster, a private company that works with the NHS, also highlighted a further 27 hospital trusts that were found to have unusually high mortality rates, resulting in an estimated 5,000 avoidable deaths last year.
