PARIS (AFP) French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy called Saturday for the world to come up with the billions of dollars needed to make AIDS history, possibly through a global tax. We have a historic opportunity, she wrote in the daily Liberation. In a few years we can eradicate AIDS from the surface of the planet. The former model and singer is a goodwill ambassador for the global fund agains
WASHINGTON (Reuters) More Americans are exercising but rates of obesity and smoking have not changed, according to the latest government data.A survey by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Wednesday finds obesity rates were frozen last year at around 28 percent of adults compared to 2008.But 34.7 percent claimed in 2009 they engage in regular leisure physical activit