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Economic decline fueled by rising inflation in Zimbabwe has changed the sexual habits of some men in the country, which might be contributing to the decreasing number of HIV cases recorded in the country, some researchers have said recently, the Washington Post reports (Timberg, Washington Post, 7/13). [click link for full article]

- Changing Sexual Habits Caused By Economic Decline Contributing To Decrease In Recorded HIV Cases In Zimbabwe, Researchers Say

A bleak assessment of the search for Madeleine McCann is revealed in several of Monday’s newspapers.

- Madeleine hunt worries papers

A criminal investigation is launched after a counterfeit batch of prostate cancer drugs was discovered.

- Fake cancer drugs probe begins

Sufferers of restless legs syndrome may get more respect now that its genetic basis has been identified.

- Scientists Find Genetic Link for a Disorder (Next, Respect?)

An 83-year-old pensioner was robbed of his wallet as he prayed in a church, police reveal.

- OAP robbed as he prayed in church

A new study appearing in the July issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reports that watching an actor smoke on the big screen may make smokers more likely to continue smoking in the future, and make nonsmokers more favorably disposed toward smoking. [click link for full article]

- Exposure To Smokers In Movies Increases Likelihood Of Smoking In The Future, New Study Shows

The American Medical Association fulfilled a 1 million dollars pledge to the National Health Museum in Washington, D.C., with a check for 900,000 dollars, an important step to aid in the creation of both the museum’s virtual and physical components. The AMA previously gave 100,000 dollars to the museum. [click link for full article]

- AMA Fulfills 1 Million Dollars Pledge To Create National Health Museum - Support Will Help Develop A Museum Dedicated To Human Health

Physics Explains Why University Rankings Won’t Change (Science Daily)Constructal theory of flows governs social phenomena like rankings. A Duke University researcher says that his physics theory, which has been applied to everything from global climate to traffic patterns, can also explain another trend: why university rankings tend not to change very much from year to year. Like branching river channels across the earth’s surface, universities are part of a .

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday at a campaign stop at New England College in Henniker, N.H., answered questions from voters about his position on so-called “partial-birth” abortion, the Long Island Newsday reports (Gordon, Long Island Newsday, 4/24). [click link for full article]

- Giuliani Answers Questions About Consistency Of Abortion Rights Stance; Biden Says Court Ruling On Abortion Ban ‘Contains Troubling Reasoning’

Six houses in a street ravaged by fire are knocked down, and six more may also have to be demolished.

- Six houses demolished after fire

A man who posed as a vet and dosed dogs with illegal drugs is jailed for 12 months.

- Bogus vet jailed for 12 months

A fresh series of UK postal strikes begins in a dispute with Royal Mail over pay and modernisation plans.

- Postal workers set for new strike

A British man is extradited from Morocco to face questioning over the 53m Securitas raid in Kent.

- 53m raid suspect extradited

Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline.A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’ compensation claims, had seven times higher medical costs from those claims and lost 13 times more days of work from work injury or work illness than did nonobese workers. [click link for full article]

- Obesity Increases Workers’ Compensation Costs

New research carried out by researchers in Nepal has shown that a new and affordable drug, Gatifloxacin, may be more effective at treating typhoid fever than the drug currently recommended by the World Health Organisation. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, has implications for the treatment of typhoid particularly in areas where drug resistance is a major problem. [click link for full article]

- Nepalese Researchers Identify Cost-Effective Treatment For Drug-Resistant Typhoid