There's more advice on the contentious issue of prostate cancer screening: A leading group of cancer specialists says the decision hinges in part on a man's life expectancy.

Doctors should discuss the possible pros and cons of those PSA blood tests with men expected to live longer than another 10 years, the American Society of Clinical Oncology recommended Monday.

South Africa is recalling 500,000 HIV test kits it ordered from a South Korean company despite a World Health Organization (WHO) warning over inconclusive results, the health ministry said Tuesday.

Authorities are investigating how the SD Bioline tests were ordered earlier this year after the WHO issued notices in November last year, health spokesman Joe Maila said.

Greece's hottest day this year is forcing authorities to shut down the Athens Acropolis six hours before schedule in the interests of visitor health, the site's guards said on Monday.

The country's top monument was to shut down at 1100 GMT instead of its normal 1700 GMT closing time, a guard told Agence France Presse.

Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, a cure remains elusive but a growing arsenal of drugs could someday help end new infections, the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS chief says.

The key is figuring out how to best manage the latest advances, Gottfried Hirnschall said in an interview with Agence France Presse during a visit to Washington this week ahead of the International AIDS Conference that begins here July 22.

A Chinese province urged parents Sunday to seek immediate treatment for children showing symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease after official figures showed 112 people died from the illness last month.

The disease, which children are especially vulnerable to, also infected more than 381,000 people, the Ministry of Health reported last week.

Anil Kanade seems almost too stunned to speak about the deadly cancer recently found in his mouth, caused by his addiction to a popular Indian chewing tobacco that doctors say is fuelling an epidemic.

Like millions of young Indians, the factory worker was for years hooked on "gutka" -- a cheap, mass-produced mix of tobacco, crushed areca nut and other ingredients that several states are now trying to wipe out.

A German court decision branding the Muslim and Jewish rite of circumcising baby boys a criminal act has left disbelief, outrage and serious legal questions in its wake.

A cartoon in Sunday's edition of Berlin daily Tagesspiegel cast the dispute over the ruling published last month as a high-stakes struggle between religious beliefs and European secular values.

Croatia's parliament on Friday passed a new fertility law, easing what had been some of Europe's most restrictive measures, despite opposition from the Catholic Church and conservatives.

The new law notably authorizes the freezing of embryos and recognizes the right of single women to assisted fertilization.

Cat Pause proudly describes herself as "fat", can live with euphemisms like "curvy", "chunky" or "chubby", but baulks at what she believes are value-laden labels such as "overweight" or "obese".

The U.S.-born academic is a pioneer in the emerging field of fat studies, organizing New Zealand's first conference on the topic at Massey University's Wellington campus on Thursday and Friday.

Cholera is rising in the last major town held by Somalia's al-Qaida linked Shehab, with most of those stricken by the disease children, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday.

The U.N. agency "is very much concerned about the increased number of cholera cases, particularly in Kismayo town," it said in a statement, warning that the infectious diarrheal disease could kill within hours if untreated.