Washington, Feb 14 : After reporting excess calcium as an indicator of prostate cancer, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin have now identified an even more accurate biomarker of the life-threatening disease-high levels of ionised serum calcium.

The new finding can help provide some direction for men diagnosed with prostate cancer, about whether their cancer is likely to be fatal or not.

"Scientists have known for many years that most prostate cancers are slow-growing and that many men will die with, rather than of, their prostate cancer," said Dr. Gary G. Schwartz, senior author of the study.

Hanoi - Vietnamese media and consumers Thursday criticized government authorities over a food safety scandal in which milk products with falsified protein content were sold for months after inspectors discovered the fraud.

Health authorities in Ho Chi Minh City revealed Friday that dozens of Vietnamese-made and foreign dairy products they had tested beginning in October, including infant formula, contained almost no protein, despite advertising high protein levels on their packaging.

Nutrition officials said up to half of the products tested contained less than 2 per cent protein, far below the 11-14 per cent required for basic nutrition for small children. But authorities did not begin removing the products from stores until last week.

Pre-eclampsia cause high blood pressure and can lead to stroke, blood clotting and kidney, liver and lung problems in pregnant mothers. Sophie Ellis Bextor, 29-year-old singer and daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis once again suffered from this condition in her second pregnancy.

Sophie Ellis Bextor has given birth two months prematurely to her second son, named Kit Valentine Jones weighed 2lb 10z. She was admitted to the private Portland Hospital in London last week on her doctor's advice

Obesity is a not a disease itself but it increases risk of various dangerous diseases. Sedentary lifestyle and fast food culture are the main reason behind rapidly multiplying number of obese persons. Statistics revealed that almost one in four Britons is obese.

'Be Active, Be Healthy', a new Government strategy has been designed to tackle the UK's obesity crisis. It aims at motivating people to live an active lifestyle to protect themselves from diseases.

Under this new strategy, GPs are being encouraged to prescribe patients exercise.

Johannesburg - The new head of the United Nations AIDS agency on Tuesday called for global spending on HIV/AIDS programmes to be nearly doubled, but acknowledged that securing 25 billion dollars in the current economic climate would "not be easy."

Speaking in Khayelitsha, a sprawling township outside Cape Town, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said: "We cannot let the economic crisis paralyze us.

"We cannot let down the 4 million people on treatment and millions more in need today."

Despite efforts of scientists all over the world there has been no cure for AIDS. The U. S. government is motivating scientists to find a cure against HIV. The need to find a new cure for this deadly disease has been intensified after Merck & Co.'s Ad5 vaccine, the most promising effort to date that flopped in 2007. HIV virus affects 2.7 million new patients each year