For many people deciding about HIV test is a difficult decision to make, but now with the availability of Home HIV Test Kit things have become quite smooth and easy for these people, as these kits insure the privacy and confidentiality of your test results.

But still many people think, “Why they should get HIV testing?”

These people must keep in mind that there can be various reasons to get tested for HIV especially for those who are sexually active or about to start a new relationship. This test can be beneficial not only for you, but also for your partner, as it can save you, your partner and many other from this deadly disease. People who have oral, vaginal or anal intercourse without using a condom or know that their partners are not monogamous, they are at high risk   of HIV transmission and they defiantly need to get tested for HIV. Similarly, people, who are sexually assaulted or experience condom breakage during sex (with new partner) also need to get HIV testing.

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The results of another study have shown that the so-called fighting powers of different vitamins (like E, C and beta-carotene) prove ineffective to avoid cancer in women when used in supplement forms.

The surprising thing about the study is that is declares ineffective even to beta carotene which is a much hyped vitamin supplement to avoid cancer.

Jennifer Lin, who led the study, says in this connection: “Just taking vitamins supplements is not enough to hamper the growth of cancer.”

But consuming a good amount of different vegetables and fruit is not a bad idea in this regard, says Lin.

During the past some years, several studies have shown that different vitamins supplements like C, D, E, provide no help to avoid cancer whether they are taken alone or in combinations. The new findings oppose other studies which have suggested that vitamin supplements help to avoid cancer because of their antioxidants effect.

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A new study suggests that just like in adults, obesity surgery may prove effective to reverse diabetes in youngsters.

The researchers told that after one year of weight-loss surgery, ten out of 11 very obese teens found that their diabetes had reversed during that time. However, one patient was found with diabetes, but that patient not required diabetes pills and he was taking quite less insulin.

Many other studies have already shown that obesity surgery is beneficial for adults’ diabetes, says, Thomas Inge, the lead author of the study.

Inge says that further study is needed to find out the other impacts of weight loss surgery on obese teens diabetes, but this study has paved a way to consider weight loss surgery another treatment option for extremely obese teens with diabetes.

The study is expected to be published in the journal Pediatrics, January issue.

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The results of a study suggest that vitamin B1 doses can prove helpful to reverse kidney disease in diabetics.

The Warwick University researchers noticed vitamin B1 (thiamine) effects on 40 patients from Pakistan.  Vitamin B1 is sufficiently found in the grain, yeast and meat.

According to the reports from the journal Diabetologia, the vitamin seems to help in stopping key protein loss in the urine.

These findings have been built on the Warwick University researchers’ early work that showed many patients with diabetes were deficient in thiamine.

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According to a new study, women, who do weight bearing exercises in youth, may sustain their bone strength in old age.

The Japanese study, which has been published online in the British Sports Medicine Journal Dec.22 issue, concludes this after inquiring about the adolescence exercise habits of forty-six postmenopausal women who were aged 52 or over currently.

The researchers found that the women, who had been taking part in different weight bearing and low impact exercises like swimming they had higher mineral content in spine as well as in the thigh bone. The other participants of the study had been plying some more high-impact games like volleyball, jumping, running and tennis in their youth. Similarly some didn’t have participated in any sports activity at all. …Click here to read more