<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Chronic Diseases</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/chronicdiseases?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><description>Chronic Diseases</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Blacks Are Hardest Hit By HIV Infection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54612-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54612-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[According to a U.S. survey, the rate of infection for blacks between the ages of 18 and 59 is 13 times higher than that of whites.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mandela Says AIDS Led to Death of Son]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52781-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52781-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 6 -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced Thursday that his son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, had died that morning of illness related to AIDS, and he urged other families to speak openly about the toll of a disease that has ravaged South Africa but is still widely regarded as a taboo topic.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Links Weight and Alzheimer's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56186-2003Jul14.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56186-2003Jul14.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Overweight elderly women are more likely than those who stay trim to be stricken by Alzheimer's disease presenting the first evidence linking the burgeoning weight crisis with the increasingly common brain affliction.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food Labels Must List Trans Fat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35428-2003Jul9.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35428-2003Jul9.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The federal government will require food labels to disclose how much  unhealthful trans fatty acids the product contains,  an effort to focus consumers on these substances that significantly raise the risk of heart disease and obesity.]]></description><author> Sally Squires</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health Costs of Obesity Near Those of Smoking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51654-2003May13.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51654-2003May13.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The treatment of illnesses related to obesity costs America $93 billion a year, rivaling the financial toll of smoking-related disease, according to a CDC analysis being published Wednesday.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Cites Effects of Obesity in Children]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59342-2003Apr8.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59342-2003Apr8.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The quality of life for severely obese children and adolescents is roughly equivalent to that of pediatric cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, according to a new study.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Antonio Has Highest Rate of Obesity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30539-2003Mar2.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30539-2003Mar2.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[San Antonio has gained the unenviable position of being the community in the United States with the greatest percentage of obese adults, according to new federal statistics.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Supersizing' Hits the Dinner Table]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24477-2003Jan21.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24477-2003Jan21.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In addition to the super-size fries and big-gulp drinks served in countless restaurants, Americans are eating bigger and bigger portions at home as well, according to the first study to examine the issue.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Finds That in U.S., 1 in 3 Are Obese]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62930-2002Oct8.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62930-2002Oct8.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Americans are not just fat, they're getting fatter, according to a new government study that finds about one in every three adults is now obese and nearly two-thirds are overweight in the United States.]]></description><author> Sally Squires</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study: Excess Weight Linked to Heart Failure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28452-2002Jul31.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28452-2002Jul31.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Being even moderately overweight or obese increases a person's risk of developing heart failure, according to new data.]]></description><author> Susan Okie</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victim's Dad Faults Gene Therapy Team]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3989-2000Feb3.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3989-2000Feb3.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[His voice trembling with emotion, the father of the teenager who died in a gene therapy experiment in September told a rapt Senate subcommittee yesterday that the University of Pennsylvania scientists who conducted the research oversold its potential benefits and underplayed its risks.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss and Deborah Nelson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gene Deaths Not Filed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51427-2000Jan30.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51427-2000Jan30.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The federal government has received hundreds of tardy gene therapy "adverse event" reports in response to news stories and agency directives.]]></description><author> Deborah Nelson and Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earlier Gene Test Deaths Not Reported]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52614-2000Jan31.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52614-2000Jan31.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston quietly suspended a gene therapy experiment last summer after three of the first six patients died and a seventh fell seriously ill, previously unreleased research records show.]]></description><author> Deborah Nelson and Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gene Therapy's Troubling Crossroads]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53121-1999Dec31.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53121-1999Dec31.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes a disaster to remind scientists and the public just how far out on a limb they have ventured together, as happened with the Challenger explosion and the accident at Chernobyl.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss and Deborah Nelson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gene Therapy Firms Resist Publicity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44979-1999Dec11.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44979-1999Dec11.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal officials overseeing the field of gene therapy searched in vain yesterday for common ground between drug companies that want to keep details of their experiments secret and advocates who favor a more open airing of the field's recently revealed problems.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gene Researchers Apologize for Lapses in Teen's Fatal Treatment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40718-1999Dec10.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40718-1999Dec10.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[During yet another day of new revelations of problems in a fatal University of Pennsylvania gene therapy experiment, researchers apologized for their lapses while parents of sick children pleaded with federal regulators not to slow the pace of research on inherited diseases.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss and Deborah Nelson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians Strike a Note For Peace and Harmony]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36812-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36812-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It may be naive to hope for the triumph of music over politics, or peace over war. Achieving harmony between strikingly different instruments and players takes practice and patience. But  some recent examples  offer  hope.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Says Peace Plan May Be 'Productive']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36807-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36807-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush said on Thursday that an unofficial peace plan denounced by the Israeli government was a "productive" contribution to ending the long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Approves Construction of Homes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29686-2003Dec2.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29686-2003Dec2.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The government of Israel has approved for construction more than 1,720 new houses in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip this year, according to critics of the settlements who say they undercut a U.S.-backed peace plan.]]></description><author> John Ward Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powell Effort Aims To Pressure Sharon On Peace Accord]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29520-2003Dec2.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29520-2003Dec2.html?nav=rss_health/chronicdiseases</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Colin L. Powell plans to meet Friday with the authors of an unofficial Israeli-Palestinian peace accord as part of a Bush administration strategy to put increasing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item></channel></rss>