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Angola says high birth rate will strain resources
• Public Health • Jul 12 05
Angola’s population will surge by more than 30 percent to 20 million by 2015, straining a country recovering from decades of war, the planning…
Four Local Hospitals Rated Among the Top
• Public Health • Jul 11 05
U.S. News And World Report has ranked four Cincinnati’s hospitals among the best in the nation, with Children’s Hospital Medical Center rated eighth nationwide…
Calif. stripped of control over prison health care
• Public Health • Jul 06 05
A federal judge stripped California of control of its prison health care system on Thursday, describing it as “broken” and needing an outside authority…
Spam can help prod people to better health
• Public Health • Jun 30 05
E-mail spam can be good for you if it comes as a steady stream of e-mails nagging about healthy habits, Canadian researchers said on…
Medicare Won’t Cover Some Anxiety Drugs
• Public Health • Jun 27 05
When the federal government’s new prescription drug benefit kicks in next year, it will not cover a category of drugs commonly used to treat…
$5.1 billion could save 6 million children
• Public Health • Jun 24 05
Six million children who die each year from preventable diseases could be saved if richer nations gave another $5.1 billion a year, according to…
Suspected cholera kills 50 in northeast Nigeria
• Public Health • Jun 22 05
At least 50 people have died in an outbreak of suspected cholera in the remote northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, lawmakers said…
Cholera detected in Kabul
• Public Health • Jun 14 05
Authorities have detected 30 cases of cholera among more than 2,500 instances of acute diarrhoea in the Afghan capital Kabul, but there…
Some chronic disorders more common in Gulf War vets
• Public Health • Jun 07 05
Ten years after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, physical and laboratory evaluations reveal an increased risk of fibromyalgia, Chronic fatigue…
LCMV spread through organ donation
• Public Health • Jun 02 05
Four transplant recipients in the US became infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which is normally carried by rodents, after receiving organs from…
Cancer seen in family members of asbestos workers
• Public Health • May 29 05
People who were exposed to asbestos through a family member who worked with the material appear to run the risk of developing the asbestos-related…
States say government should pay for poor elderly
• Public Health • May 23 05
U.S. governors are renewing their call for the federal government to take over the costs of low-income senior and disabled citizens who are…
Polio outbreak could cripple 200 in Yemen - WHO
• Public Health • May 17 05
A polio epidemic raging through Yemen, with 63 confirmed cases so far, is expected to paralyse 200 children before coming under control,…
World health body drags feet on cheap drugs - MSF
• Public Health • May 17 05
The United Nations’ global health watchdog is dragging its feet in approving cheap, effective medicines for the poor to combat AIDS, Malaria…
Penn. judge rescinds $1.4 mln fen-phen verdict
• Public Health • May 13 05
Wyeth Thursday said a Philadelphia judge rescinded a verdict against the drugmaker, in which the company had been ordered to pay three Utah women…
Mali jails 11 for refusing child polio vaccination
• Public Health • May 11 05
Mali has jailed 11 men for refusing to let their children be vaccinated against polio, a judge in the West African country…
U.S. lawmakers get serious about health care IT
• Public Health • May 11 05
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers Wednesday unveiled legislation to speed the adoption of computerized medical records and other health care information technology.
At…
Tsunami health lessons studied
• Public Health • May 04 05
The lessons learned from last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami will be discussed at a conference in Thailand over the next three days organised by…
Polio in Indonesia; First Time in Decade
• Public Health • May 03 05
A strain of polio that’s hit parts of Africa and the Middle East appears almost identical to one that has reached Indonesia,…
Progress made in malaria fight
• Public Health • May 02 05
The World Health Organization said progress has been made fighting Malaria since 2000 but the disease still kills 1 million people yearly.
An increasing…
Medical errors edging up in US, study finds
• Public Health • May 02 05
Hospital-acquired infections are worsening in the United States, according to a report issued on Monday. And the problem of such infections provides a good…
Death toll from Angola Marburg outbreak tops 250
• Public Health • Apr 28 05
The death toll in Angola’s Marburg epidemic has topped 250, but medical experts said on Thursday they were confident the world’s worst outbreak…
North Europeans lead healthier but shorter lives
• Public Health • Apr 28 05
North Europeans are healthier and wealthier than their southern cousins, but people in Mediterranean countries live longer regardless, a European survey showed on Thursday.
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Consumer ads boost doctors’ scripts - study
• Public Health • Apr 26 05
Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs seems to increase the likelihood that physicians will prescribe those drugs, according to a study in the April 27th…
Chernobyl thyroid cancer detection scheme at risk
• Public Health • Apr 26 05
A program to detect Thyroid cancer in areas contaminated in the Chernobyl nuclear accident is at risk due to dwindling donor funds…