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The National Institutes of Health is spending $1.5 million on a study that examines why lesbians and straight men are more likely to be obese than gay men.

Grassroots organization Food for Thought provides meals and support for people with HIV in Sonoma County, and hosts festivals that help raise funds to keep their programs open.

Your credit cards are as bloated as your waistline, and the endless gray days of winter have your Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) on overdrive. What’s a girl (or guy) to do? With a few quick fixes, you can survive the winter.

The lifelong ban on gay men donating blood has been lifted in Great Britain, numerous news sites reported. In its place is a requirement that men who have sex with men wait for one year after a same-sex encounter to donate blood.

A new study shows that a vaccine already in use to protect women against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical and other forms of soft tissue cancer, can also be effective at warding off anal cancer.

Researchers envision a day when people living with HIV won’t have to remember to take bulky pills every day. Instead, they may be able to wear a patch similar to a nicotine patch for up to a week at a time.

Researchers have found a new way to fight HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The new approach may one day lead to a vaccine against the disease.

The soybean industry is seeking government approval of a genetically modified soybean it says will produce oil lower in saturated fat, offer consumers a healthier alternative to foods containing trans fats and increase demand for growers’ crops.

Half of Americans drink a soda or sugary beverage each day - and some are downing a lot. One in 20 people drinks the equivalent of more than four cans of soda each day.

One of Taiwan’s best regarded hospitals transplanted organs from an HIV carrier into five patients, a hospital official said Monday, in what appears to be one of the most egregious examples of medical negligence in the island’s modern history.