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Mini robot vacuums are one thing, but larger robots may soon become a part of everyday life for the elderly, performing tasks that could help delay the dreaded move of loved ones to a nursing home or assisted living facility. Researchers and robotics companies worldwide are designing prototypes to provide automated assistance to the elderly at home, targeting a market that promises to grow as people live longer. [More]



Robotics - Robot - Assisted living - Health - Nursing home

HIV infects an estimated 430,000 infants and children worldwide each year. Although many of those cases are contracted from an HIV-positive mother during pregnancy or birth, some 40 percent of infected children get the disease through breast-feeding . But because of health risks associated with formula feeding--especially in resource-poor regions--the World Health Organization still recommends breast-feeding for mothers with HIV/AIDS in the developing world. Left untreated, however, about half of HIV-infected infants die before the age of two. [More]



World Health Organization - Health - HIV - Antiretroviral drug - Conditions and Diseases

White rice joins the growing list of refined carbohydrates with links to increased risks for diabetes, according to a new large study that quantified odds for consumers of white rice--as well as brown rice. [More]



Diabetes mellitus type 2 - Health - White rice - Carbohydrate - Brown rice

Aisha, Miriam and Akhi are three young factory workers in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.  They are poorly educated and badly paid.  But, like millions of other young women, they relish their freedom from the stultifying conformity of rural life, where women are at the constant beck and call of fathers, brothers and husbands.

There is something else.  The three women together have 22 siblings.  But Aisha plans three children, Miriam two and Akhi just one. They represent a gender revolution that many see as irrevocably tied to a reproductive revolution . Together, the changes are solving what once seemed the most difficult problem facing the future of humanity: growing population.