In North Carolina, people who earn more than $11,000 a year do not qualify for the state's AIDS drug assistance program, said the annual report, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and state AIDS directors. In Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, income limits are at least four times as high.

In addition, North Carolina and another dozen states have imposed measures to contain costs that range from capping program enrollment to reducing the number of drugs offered.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 850,000 to 950,000 Americans have AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes the disease, and some 40,000 more are infected each year.

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Jennifer Kates, Kaiser's director for HIV policy, said budget pressures are causing "an upswing in the number of states looking at and instituting cost-containment measures."

The number of people on waiting lists for the state programs has gone up in recent months, Kates said

Still, Kates said, the study shows that many states are finding creative ways to provide drugs to HIV/AIDS patients. For example, 24 states are using AIDS drug assistance money to purchase health insurance coverage or carry forward the temporary COBRA insurance people can obtain when they leave a job.

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In an astonishing testament to globalization, this outbreak of girth is occurring just as doctors are winning the fight against a number of vexing diseases.

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Now a new enemy is emerging in the 21st century: our appetite. Around the globe, about 1.7 billion people should lose weight, according to the International Obesity Task Force. Of those who are overweight, about 312 million are obese - at least 30 pounds over their top recommended weight.

Already, a third of all deaths globally are from ailments linked to weight, lack of exercise and smoking. And perhaps most worrisome is obesity's spread beyond wealthy western nations.

From the glaciers of Iceland to the palm-fringed beaches of the Philippines, there are now more fat people in the world than hungry people. And in extreme cases, people who are heavy since childhood could die as much as five to 10 years early.

"What's clear is that the developing world in particular is going to bear the enormous brunt of this weight gain," said Neville Rigby, policy director of the obesity task force.

"It's rapidly accelerating. We're even seeing obesity in adolescents in India now. It's universal. It has become a fully global epidemic - indeed, a pandemic."

U.S. nutrition scientist Barry Popkin agrees. He serves as a key adviser to the World Health Organization, which will propose the first global strategy on diet, physical activity and health next week at its annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland - http://ms-jd.org/search/results/search&keywords=Switzerland/ .

"When you find nary a country that's being missed, nary a rural area that's being missed, let alone an urban area," Popkin said, "you've got to say it's more than an epidemic."

No Country Immune

Certainly the United States remains a nation of scale-busters, with two of every three Americans overweight.

But there are a dozen places even worse:

Soon China will be the world's biggest country in more ways than sheer population, experts predict. It's a stunning reversal from the Mao Zedong era when as many as 40 million people starved in the Great Leap Forward famine of 1958-61.

Pursuing a new doctrine of a "well-off society," Chinese cities represent the world's biggest growth market for restaurants that until recently were considered to be counterrevolutionary. Now a new KFC, Pizza Hut or Taco Bell opens almost every day. Virtually every mainland home now has a television blaring junk food ads.

When university student Li Guangxu was a baby, rice was rationed. Now he eats cookies for breakfast.

Shopping at a CarreFour supermarket in western Shanghai, the solidly built young man fills a shopping cart with cookies, potato chips, soda and beer. The bustling new store devotes 12 aisles to snacks, including the bulk bins and freezers stocked with crackers, candy, and ice cream.

"I like these things. They taste great," Li said. "I don't have time for anything else. Older folks don't eat this stuff, but we do. We like snacks."

Most scientists believe our bodies have retained a prehistoric tendency to store fuel for periods of deprivation. Modern foods are so plentiful and so packed with calories that getting fat might be biologically difficult to avoid.

But the problem is rooted in something deeper than nutrition math. Pleasure and emotional comfort are basic instincts, and eating tends to stimulate those circuits in the brain, not unlike addictive drugs.

A food fix always is within arm's reach.

Hardware emporiums host parking lot barbecues, and airports sell gooey, hot cinnamon rolls. Gas stations have morphed into grocery stores, and grocery stores have ballooned into warehouses. You can buy potato chips whether you are trekking in Nepal or paddling a chocolate-brown river in Borneo's tropical jungles.

Who can resist? Almost no one.

"I compare the propensity to eat as somewhere between the propensity to breathe and the propensity to have sex," said Stephen Bloom, chief of metabolic medicine at the University of London's Imperial College. "Just saying, 'Stop eating!' doesn't work. It's much worse than stopping smoking."

Weight's Health Effects

Simply being fat won't necessarily kill you outright. And it's not weight alone that determines your risk from several diseases. But being overweight carries severe consequences.

Diabetes, heart disease and some cancers have been linked to weight, and all are on the rise.

Type 2 Diabetes is the illness most directly linked to obesity. A condition that often leads to heart disease and kidney failure, it is blamed for more than 3 million deaths a year. It afflicts 154 million people - nearly four times the number who have HIV or AIDS - and the WHO forecasts more than twice as many people will develop diabetes in the next 25 years.

Obesity can triple the risk of heart disease. One-third of all deaths globally - about 17 million - are blamed on heart disease, stroke and related cardiovascular problems, WHO figures show.

Some scientists predict it will outstrip infectious killers by the end of the decade.

Countries with extensive health care have stalled the onset of heart disease into old age and saved lives. But in much of the world, the latest drugs and arterial scouring procedures are not widely available.

In those countries, fatal heart attacks and strokes are much more common among younger, working age adults.

Researchers from Columbia University's Earth Institute examined Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the Russian republic of Tartarstan. They found that the heart disease death rate for adults ages 30-59 was up to twice as high as the U.S. rate. Among Russians in the study, the rate was up to five times higher.

Obesity was cited as a primary factor, along with smoking, lack of exercise and untreated high blood pressure. The researchers described the influence of unhealthy diets as "surprising."

"Never before ... have so many people been at risk of premature death," they wrote.

In South Africa, 11 percent of the population has HIV. Yet cardiovascular disease there still accounts for a higher rate of death among men and women under age 45.

Over the next 30 years, the trend in those counties is projected to worsen.

In India, more than a quarter of the 5 million people who die from heart attacks and strokes every year are younger than 65. This exceeds U.S. rates in the 1950s before aggressive cardiac care and prevention, said study co-author Susan Raymond.

Obesity also plays a significant, if poorly understood, role in many cancers. WHO data shows cancer accounts for about 12.5 percent of the world's deaths, and that rate is expected to increase dramatically, mostly in developing countries.

The fact that obesity is on the rise in these countries as well is due to a confluence of factors that researchers say must be examined.

The global trend toward weight gain and its associated illnesses is not restricted to the well-off. High-fat, high-starch foods tend to be cheaper, so poor people eat more of them.

In Mexico, 40 percent of its 105 million people live in poverty. Yet two-thirds of men and women there are overweight or obese.

In the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 30 percent of the schoolchildren in 500 poor families have stunted growth due to poor diet. Yet, reports the Pan American Health Organization, about 6 percent of the children and 9 percent of the adults were obese, too.In southern Africa, Zambia, which experienced a food crisis in 2002, reports that 10 percent to 15 percent of urban schoolchildren are obese.

"It's a myth that you can't have poverty and obesity coexisting," said Tufts University nutritionist Bea Rogers.

How It Happened

Many factors contribute to the widening of the world's waistline.

"For the last 150 years we've been getting fatter," said Bloom. But now, he says, "everything has kind of come together."

For starters, there is cheap, plentiful food. In developing countries, people still spend 40 percent of their income on food, as opposed to 15 percent by American families.

But even in poor nations, the relative cost of eating is declining as the world's farmers are able to grow huge quantities of grain that is quickly processed and shipped without spoilage.

According to U.N. figures, the consumption of oils and fats over the last 30 years has doubled and is forecast to keep growing.

"In the developing world, it happened overnight," said WHO adviser Popkin, who heads nutrition epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. "One year they had very expensive butter and the next year edible oil came on the scene. It was a tenth of a cost and all of a sudden for very little money you could make your food taste better."

Nutritionists say more and cheaper sugar is another factor, despite the industry's strenuous denials.

James E. Tillotson, director of Tufts University's Food Policy - http://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=Food%20Policy Institute, calculates the average American drinks the equivalent of a 55-gallon drum of soda every year, compared to 20 gallons of sweetened beverages a year in 1970.

Increases almost as dramatic have occurred in Europe, and soft drink factories are increasingly popping up in developing countries.

Tillotson, who developed fruit-based drinks for Ocean Spray in the 1980s, says the beverage industry did not consider the health ramifications of their now-ubiquitous products.

"We never thought people would abuse them," he said. "What everybody wanted and liked has become dangerous."

Slowly, the food industry is responding.

McDonald's has healthier menus and is phasing out super-sizing. Kraft Foods, whose products range from Oreos to Jell-O in 150 countries, has a scientific advisory panel. Among the company's initiatives: capping the portion size of single-serving packaging.

Much of Big Food's response comes after failed efforts by obese people to sue fast-food chains for damages.

"A lot of chief executives are really in a state of shock right now," said international nutrition expert Andrew Prentice of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "They've produced this stuff, cheaper and cheaper, feeding the world. All of a sudden, we're saying, 'Stop doing this!"'

Another factor is how food is promoted and distributed. Brightly packaged brands that remain safe for months have widely replaced fresh bulk foods sold in community markets.

In 1990, no more than 15 percent of food bought in Latin America came from supermarkets. Now, 60 percent is from six supermarket chains.

Experts say that because the changes occurred so rapidly and medical care is so lagging, the developing world's obesity problem - combined with more cigarette smoking - could be both public health and economic disasters in countries that were verging on prosperity.

There are demographic changes, too. In many nations, women joining the work force created a demand for convenience foods.

"We already are tired from working and we buy only packaged foods," said Bertha Rodriguez of Mexico City. The 61-year old great-grandmother is a widow who supports herself by frying quesadillas in a streetside stand. One health concession: She now uses vegetable oil instead of lard.

"Before, we were at home preparing something light and nutritious," she said.

Technology Triumphs

People spend more time sitting in the car, at the computer and especially in front of the television - an average of 1,669 hours a year in the United States, a habit that is extending internationally.

With such low activity levels, as little as 100 extra calories a day translates into 10 pounds in a year.

"Physical activity is not on the front burner in many people's minds, said Stephen Blair, research director at the Cooper Institute of Aerobics Research in Dallas.

Technology is changing people's activity levels even in the poorest nations, where backbreaking work and hauling water from the community well was the norm.

In China's megacities, crowds once pedaled identical black bicycles to work. Now adults drive cars and ride trains and buses. In southeast Asia, farmers are replacing water buffalo plows with tiny tractors, and choosing crop chemicals over hand cultivation.

"It was done with the best of intentions," Bloom said. "Telephones, cars, computers all come from the freedom from hunger and fear. But it's had a bad side effect."

Governments in some developing nations are taking steps.

Singapore schools have added physical activities and replaced soft drinks with bottled water. Brazil is making school lunch programs serve fruits and vegetables.

Such efforts are among those the World Health Organization says will be necessary to prevent a worldwide crisis.

But it's a battle against human nature.

Experts say it's unreasonable to expect people with 21st century lifestyles and desires to return to a leaner, 1950s-era silhouette.

"It would be a huge public health achievement if we simply stopped the weight gain where it is now," Blair said.

"I think that's what we're stuck with."

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"We didn't know before this that male breast cancer was increasing," said study author Dr. Sharon Giordano, oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "It remains a very rare disease, even though it's gone up."

U.S. male breast cancer rates rose from 8.6 cases per 1 million men in the 1970s to 10.8 cases per 1 million in the 1990s. The study covered 1973-98. The increase was much smaller than that for women, who saw a 52 percent increase in breast cancer cases.

The study raises suspicion that obesity may be responsible for the breast cancer increase in both sexes, said Dr. Michael Thun, epidemiology chief at the Atlanta-based cancer society.

That's because breast cancer has risen for men without the traditional reasons for the rise of female breast cancer, such as increased mammography and use of postmenopausal hormones such as estrogen, which has been linked to breast cancer.

But the waistlines of all Americans are growing. "Fat tissue produces estrogen," which in turn can lead to breast cancer, said Thun, who was not involved in the latest study.

The study also found that men tended to be diagnosed with breast cancer later than women, likely because screening is not common. Men were slightly older - 67 compared to 62 for women - when the cancer was found, and the disease was typically in its later stages when discovered in men.

Despite this, cancer experts say the breast cancer risk for men remains low enough that they should be more concerned with common killers, such as heart disease and lung, prostate and colorectal cancers.

"When you have an increase in a rare cancer, you still have a rare cancer," said Thun. "Given the rarity of disease, it's far more important to have screening for colorectal cancer and to avoid smoking" than to focus on breast cancer in men.

Self-exams aren't necessary for men. But if a man finds a lump in his breast, has nipple discharge or bleeding, he needs to see a doctor, Giordano said.

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The treatment, tested in a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, involves the drug Temodar. Until now, the medicine has typically been used only after radiation to shrink the tumor.

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"This is the first trial that has been clearly positive in brain cancer in 30 years," said Dr. M.J. van den Bent of the Daniel den Hoed Oncology Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. "This is a great day."

Radiation and surgery are the first-line treatments for glioblastomas, but even with them the disease usually kills within a year or less. Intravenous chemotherapy available since the 1970s improves these odds only marginally and can have serious side effects.

Several doctors predicted that upfront Temodar will quickly become the new standard of care, routinely offered to all victims of this disease.

"To be able to tell people they may have two or three years of survival rather than nine months is pretty major," said Dr. Adam Mamelak of City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., who was not involved in the study.

The study was conducted and financed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and released in New Orleans at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It was done at more than 80 hospitals in Europe, Canada and Australia.

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"We have started with the most malignant and devastating form" of brain cancer, he said. The next step will be to try the drug against less aggressive tumors and combine it with the newer, so-called targeted drugs designed to block cancer's internal growth signals.

Unlike most cancer, which kills by spreading through the body, glioblastomas grow quickly inside the head, destroying everything in their path. They are the most aggressive of the 100 or so forms of cancer that originate in the brain, and they account for half or more of all cases. Around the world, 175,000 cases are diagnosed annually, killing 125,000.

In the new study, 573 patients were randomly given standard treatment with or without early Temodar. After two years, 26 percent receiving Temodar were still alive, compared with just 10 percent getting the usual care.

Even with the treatment, most patients died quickly. Nevertheless, doctors said doubling short-term survival is an important milestone in such a grim disease.

"Twenty-six percent survival is not that great in the large scheme of things. But it is still progress," said Dr. Frank Haluska of Massachusetts General Hospital.

Until now, chemotherapy has also not had an important role in treating prostate cancer, which is much more common. At the meeting Monday, other researchers released details of studies that led the Food and Drug Administration last month to approve use of Taxotere, a standard chemotherapy drug, for men with advanced cases of this malignancy.

Before these studies, no treatment had been found to improve survival in prostate cancer. Spreading cancer can be suppressed with hormone treatment, but eventually this approach fails, and patients typically die within a year.

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"This is reason for celebration, because there is a survival advantage, and there is also reason for optimism, but we have a long way to go in these patients," said Dr. Mario Eisenberger of Johns Hopkins University, who headed one of the studies.

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Only 18 percent of women with fractures had scores at or above the threshold many The study was led by Dr. Ethel Siris at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and included researchers from Merck & Co., which makes the osteoporosis drug Fosamax and funded the study. A Merck doctor participated in a committee that oversaw the study design and analysis, Siris said.

Experts not involved in the study said the data appear sound.

The researchers suggested doctors consider lowering the threshold for prescribing osteoporosis drugs, especially for women who have certain risk factors that increase their chances of breaking a bone.

"My goal is not to sell medicine; my goal is to inform the debate," Siris said.

The research appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Leonard Serebro of Ochsner Clinic Foundation cautioned that while drug treatment can help prevent fractures in women with full-blown disease, more evidence is needed to show the same benefit in women with milder bone loss.

An estimated 10 million Americans, mostly women, have osteoporosis, and some 34 million have low bone density and are at risk of developing the disease, too. Women's risk of developing osteoporosis increases as they enter menopause and lose the bone-protecting effects of estrogen.

The National Osteoporosis Foundation recommends bone density screening for all women 65 and older and for younger postmenopausal women - http://www.modernmom.com/?s=postmenopausal%20women with at least one other osteoporosis risk factor, including smoking, low weight and family history of hip fracture.

Many doctors fail to screen women. And when doctors do the tests, they often do not prescribe medicine unless the results indicate full-blown osteoporosis - a bone-density score of minus 2.5 or less, the researchers said.

They said a more reasonable approach would be using National Osteoporosis Foundation guidelines recommending that medication be considered for women with scores of minus 2 or less; or minus 1.5 or less for those with at least one risk factor.

However, bone-building medication costs around $70 monthly and some insurers will not cover it if women do not have full-blown osteoporosis, Serebro said.

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Adolescents who use these products, such as e-cigarettes, hookahs, non-cigarette combustible tobacco or smokeless tobacco, are more likely to start smoking cigarettes within a year, according to the new research.

"We've seen the prevalence of youth cigarette smoking decrease over the past 20 years, but the rising popularity of these non-cigarette products is a fairly recent development that poses new questions for tobacco control and youth smoking prevention," lead study author Benjamin Chaffee, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, told CBS News.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, surveyed more than 10,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 from across the United States who said they had never smoked cigarettes. Participants were also asked if they had ever used non-cigarette tobacco products.

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Chaffee said one finding that was particularly striking was that all the different types of non-cigarette tobacco studied were associated with approximately the same increase in risk of future cigarette smoking.

"These products are different in terms of how they are used and marketed, but as risk factors for youth smoking, they appear to be nearly the same," he said.

Teens who used more than one tobacco product were even more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes.

Previous studies have also found evidence that e-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products are a gateway to conventional cigarette smoking in teens.

In 2016, the FDA banned the sale of e-cigarettes and other such products to anyone younger than 18.

However, Chaffee believes more can be done. "Regulation of these non-cigarette products should reflect the fact that all of them are associated with greater risk of youth smoking," he said. "Measures that reduce the appeal of these products to adolescents, like banning flavors, increasing the minimum purchase age to 21, and taxation, would help keep youth from starting to use tobacco in any form."

For parents, schools, and health care providers, Chaffee said the message to convey to teens is that there is no safe form of the habit. "The healthiest alternative is always to be tobacco free," he said.

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Records from the early years of the settlement show that at least four surgeons practiced at disease-plagued Jamestown between 1607 and 1610. Evidence also shows that London physician John Woodall sent a fully equipped surgeon's chest to the settlement in 1608. The excavations have unearthed two of the instruments from the kit.

The finds, along with the markings on the skull fragment, suggest that colonists fought back against diseases and other fatalities that almost doomed the settlement.

"So many times you hear that the colonists just sat around and did nothing," Kelso said. "But this shows that many of the people who were sent here did what they were sent here to do. In this case we have a surgeon who may have tried to save someone's life — or tried to learn what might have killed them after they died."

BAGHDAD - A military spokesman and a lawmaker say Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen have broken a two-month siege imposed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria extremist group on the northern Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli.

Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said Sunday that forces "reached" the town, but gave no details. Turkmen lawmaker Fawzi Akram al-Tarzi said the forces entered the town from two directions and are distributing aid to residents.

On Saturday, the U.S. conducted airstrikes against the Sunni militants and air-dropped humanitarian aid to residents. Aircraft from Australia, France and Britain joined the U.S. in the aid drop, which came after a request from the Iraqi government.

"These military operations were conducted under authorization from the commander in chief to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance and to prevent an (ISIS) attack on the civilians of Amirli," Rear Adm. John Kirby said.

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About 15,000 Shiite Turkmens were stranded in the farming community some 105 miles north of Baghdad.

Instead of fleeing in the face of the ISIS across northern Iraq, the Shiite Turkmens stayed and fortified their town with trenches and armed positions.

While Amirli fought off the initial attack in June, it has been surrounded by the militants since mid-July. Some residents have said that the Iraqi military's efforts to fly in food, water and other aid have not been enough amid oppressive heat, lack of electrical power - the town's power station was destroyed weeks ago - and 카지노사이트 - http://blog.printgila.com/ shelling from the militants - http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/search/site/militants .

U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, which began earlier this month, have targeted ISIS militants attacking Yazidi Iraqis on Mount Sinjar and the militant forces operating in the vicinity of Ibril and Mosul Dam. The beleaguered Yazidis received several humanitarian drops of tons of food and water as well as military support aimed at protecting them.