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  Ian Thorpe battling infection in Sydney hospital

  Other Sports | April 09, 2014 22:05 IST

  SYDNEY :  The agent for five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe says the 31-year-old Australian will never swim again after contracting two potentially-deadly infections while undergoing shoulder surgery.   James Erskine said Tuesday that Thorpe was

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  AIDS Breakthrough: Vaginal Gel Helps Prevent Infection

  World | July 20, 2010 10:14 IST

  Milwaukee: For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South