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Skills-based therapy may curb eating disorders (Reuters)

Reuters - Women who suffer from bulimia or binge-eating disorder and who have borderline personality may be helped with "dialectical behavior therapy," results of a pilot study suggest.

"Natural" cesarean mimics vaginal birth experience (Reuters)

Reuters - A cesarean childbirth procedure developed in the UK takes a "woman-centered" approach and incorporates many important aspects of natural childbirth, according to a recent report.

Water disinfection products no harm to pregnancy (Reuters)

Reuters - Drinking water that contains disinfection by-products at regulatory cut-off levels does not appear to raise a pregnant woman's risk of delivering a small baby or delivering prematurely, new research shows.

Independent WHO study backs universal health care (Reuters)

Reuters - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care.

Social injustice 'killing on a grand scale': WHO (AFP)

AFP - A "toxic combination" of poverty and social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, a World Health Organisation report said Thursday, urging states to fund healthcare to cut inequalities.

Cells change identity in promising breakthrough (AP)

AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.

AIDS cases seen on the rise in Philippines (Reuters)

Reuters - The Philippines has a lower incidence of HIV than most of its neighbors despite sharing many of the risks, but health officials warned on Thursday that many new cases were now coming to light.

Long-term incense use 'increases cancer risk' (AFP)

AFP - Long-term daily use of incense, an important feature of Asian religious practices, increases the risk of some cancers, an international study has found.

Cervical cancer advances give hope to poor (Reuters)

Reuters - New screening tests and effective vaccines from Merck & Co and GlaxoSmithKline make tackling cervical cancer in poor countries a real possibility for the first time, researchers said on Thursday.

Tools Test Debunks 'Dumb Neanderthals' Theory (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Homo sapiens' long-extinct cousins, the Neanderthals, weren't the slow-witted losers in the evolutionary race they've been made out to be, new research suggests.