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Four More Deaths From Canadian Mystery Virus, but Outbreak Wanes
• Public Health • Oct 05 05
Despite four newly reported deaths, health officials here say they’re “confident” a mysterious viral illness, which causes respiratory symptoms, is under control.
“The outbreak…
Survey Finds Doctors Heed Their Own Medical Advice
• Public Health • Oct 02 05
The Biblical phrase, “Physician, heal thyself,” is apparently advice many Harvard physicians take to heart.
A majority of Harvard Medical School faculty actually follow…
E.coli’s Defense Mechanism Uncovered
• Public Health • Oct 02 05
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom have uncovered a mechanism with which disease-causing bacteria…
US FDA reviews drug company coupons, other offers
• Public Health • Sep 29 05
Drug company offers of coupons, free music downloads and other enticements for consumers to use specific medicines are under scrutiny by U.S. regulators, a…
More than 900 dead in India encephalitis outbreak
• Public Health • Sep 26 05
The death toll in India’s worst Encephalitis outbreak in nearly 30 years has reached 900 but the number of new infections has…
World encephalitis vaccine stock inadequate
• Public Health • Sep 21 05
The world’s entire stock of Encephalitis vaccines is inadequate to meet India’s needs to prevent the disease that has killed 850 people…
Thousands of British doctors can’t find jobs
• Public Health • Sep 20 05
Thousands of young doctors might be unable to find work because of a shortage of jobs and the problem could be worse than feared,…
Asia-Pacific battles rising cancer, heart disease
• Public Health • Sep 20 05
Asian and Pacific nations are struggling to stem the rise in cancer and Heart disease which kill 25,000 people a day in…
Morphine overdose possible in Canberra Hospital death
• Public Health • Sep 19 05
The ACT Coroners Court has heard an overdose of morphine could have contributed to the death of a Moruya man at the Canberra Hospital.
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Anti-poverty campaign leaving women behind
• Public Health • Sep 01 05
Many women fall through the cracks of the global campaign against poverty because they are more likely than men to hold jobs that pay…
Malaysia declares haze emergency in two areas
• Public Health • Aug 11 05
Malaysia declared an emergency near its capital on Thursday as acrid haze from Indonesian forest fires drove air pollution readings into the danger…
Mail order drugs could save U.S. billions
• Public Health • Aug 02 05
Ordering prescription drugs by mail rather than at a store pharmacy could save the nation’s insurance program for the elderly and disabled up to…
Medicaid cutbacks painful as US states push reforms
• Public Health • Aug 01 05
It was a Monday in late July and Mary Foster was almost out of medicine.
Because of new state Medicaid cutbacks that took effect…
Ethiopia feeding program still having trouble
• Public Health • Jul 28 05
Problems with an Ethiopian program to help 5 million chronically hungry people by giving them cash and food in exchange for work is creating…
More US mad cow mistakes raise credibility concerns
• Public Health • Jul 28 05
A series of mishaps and confusion over U.S. testing for mad cow disease raise questions about the government’s credibility and could undermine efforts to…
Death toll from China pig disease rises to 24
• Public Health • Jul 28 05
The death toll in an outbreak of pig-borne disease in the southwest Chinese province of Sichuan has risen to 24, with another 117 thought…
U.S. court rules Union Pacific must cover contraception
• Public Health • Jul 25 05
A federal judge ruled that Union Pacific must provide prescription contraceptive benefits to its unions’ women employees, health advocates said on Monday.
A U.S.…
Mysterious disease kills 17 in southwest China
• Public Health • Jul 24 05
Authorities in southwest China are investigating a mysterious disease that has killed 17 farm workers and left 41 others ill after they handled sick…
Pfizer planned reorganization will result in a “net reduction” of jobs
• Public Health • Jul 22 05
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer told the 1,300 full-time employees at its San Diego research unit yesterday that a planned reorganization will result in a “net…
Signs point to global influenza oubreak
• Public Health • Jul 22 05
Indonesia’s first human bird flu case, coupled with more birds dying elsewhere including Russia, are signs a long-dreaded global influenza pandemic may be approaching,…
Many divers appear to be born with large lungs
• Public Health • Jul 21 05
Many divers have unusually large lungs and this trait may be a product of genes, rather than frequent underwater excursions, according to a new…
DuPont sued in Teflon class action case
• Public Health • Jul 20 05
Two Florida law firms said on Tuesday they had filed class action lawsuits against DuPont Co., charging the chemicals giant hid the potential health…
Hands-free phones just as dangerous in cars
• Public Health • Jul 14 05
People talking on cell phones while driving are at least four times more likely to be involved in a collision and using a hands-free…
Ethiopia children at risk of malnutrition
• Public Health • Jul 13 05
Up to 170,000 children in Ethiopia could die from severe malnutrition this year if donor countries fail to provide sufficient funding for food, water…
Thousands get infected in Pennsylvania Hospitals
• Public Health • Jul 13 05
More than 11,000 people caught some sort of infection in Pennsylvania hospitals last year and nearly 1,800 died from them, according to a report…