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Government Issues 12 New Food Pyramids
• Public Health • Apr 19 05
Concerned about steadily expanding waistlines, the government flipped the food pyramid on its side, adding a staircase for exercise and giving consumers 12 individually-tailored…
Many seniors won’t take prescribed drugs -study
• Public Health • Apr 19 05
Up to 40 percent of U.S. seniors do not take all their prescription drugs, either because of the cost or because they do not…
U.S. drug case against Towson doctor to start
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
An ordinary diet doctor or an illegal drug dealer?
That question should take center stage in federal court today when a once-prominent Towson…
Top court to hear US appeal on hallucinogenic tea
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether the federal government must allow the U.S. branch of a Brazilian-based religion to…
More US college students drinking and driving
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
The number of US college students who drive while intoxicated has risen to 2.8 million, new study findings indicate.
In addition, the number of…
WHO: Last killer flu lab samples seen destroyed soon
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
All laboratories that received a killer flu bug in test kits have destroyed the virus, except for a few in the United States where…
Bad days for South Korea’s men with blood type B
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
Lee Sung-san is a 24-year-old South Korean student looking for love and hoping that the women he is wooing don’t ask him for his…
Two-thirds of lethal H2N2 flu samples destroyed - WHO
• Public Health • Apr 15 05
Some two-thirds of the 3,700 laboratories worldwide that received samples of a killer flu virus in test kits have destroyed them as instructed, the…
Medicaid costs controversy continues
• Public Health • Apr 15 05
A leading Democratic governor on Thursday lashed out at the U.S. federal government’s efforts to force states to pay more of the bill for…
Auto workers union backs U.S. asbestos fund plan
• Public Health • Apr 15 05
A plan to create a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund picked up an important labor endorsement on Wednesday from the United Auto…
WHO issues travel advice on Marburg-hit Angola
• Public Health • Apr 15 05
Travellers to Angola, where Marburg disease has killed 210 people, should avoid close contact with ill people and countries may wish to screen returning…
Vietnam finds HIV carrier infected with bird flu
• Public Health • Apr 14 05
A 21-year-old woman has been infected by both HIV and bird flu, the first such case in Vietnam, health officials said Thursday.
The Health…
Angola targets risky funeral rites in Marburg fight
• Public Health • Apr 14 05
Persuading Angolans to alter traditional rituals to prepare the dead for burial is one of the biggest challenges to the country’s bid to stamp…
Senate panel approves W. House nominee to head EPA
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
The Bush administration’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency won approval from the Senate Environment Committee on Wednesday, less than a week…
Prisoners may be aware during lethal injection
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
Anesthesia administered prior to lethal injection may not be sufficient to prevent the condemned person from experiencing suffocation and severe pain, according to a…
U.S. tracking dangerous flu strain sent to labs
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
A fierce strain of flu virus sent to many U.S. labs has not made anyone sick and authorities have detected no evidence of a…
USDA denies allegations of more mad cow cases
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
The U.S. Agriculture Department on Wednesday denied allegations from two former employees that faulty animal testing procedures may have kept officials from finding more…
Scientists rush to destroy killer flu virus
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
The killer “Asian” flu virus, which was sent to laboratories around the world as part of routine test kits, could trigger a…
Shaky Angola hospitals could spread deadly Marburg
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
Battered by nearly three decades of civil war, Angola’s hospitals could become a breeding ground for the Marburg virus which has already killed more…
World Health chief urges more vaccines in Africa
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
Africa needs more investment in research and manpower to boost vaccination rates that are less than half the global average, the director-general of the…
GMO rice sold in central China markets -Greenpeace
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
Genetically modified rice is being sold in markets in the central Chinese province of Hubei, even though the authorities have not yet approved…
French parliament adopts ‘end of life’ law
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
France’s parliament has approved a law that will allow terminally ill patients to opt for death instead of further treatment, but which supporters…
Marburg outbreak not likely a global threat
• Public Health • Apr 13 05
An outbreak of deadly Marburg virus in Angola is probably not a global threat but international experts are working to bring it under control,…
Polio eradication close, but cash and clout needed
• Public Health • Apr 12 05
With just a little more cash and a lot more political clout, polio could become the second dread disease to be wiped off the…
EU mulls 1 bln euro bird flu drug fund
• Public Health • Apr 12 05
The European Union should be able to dip into a 1 billion euro disaster fund to buy emergency vaccines and antiviral drugs if there…