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Four more Vietnamese suspected to have bird flu
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
Vietnam has four more suspected human cases of the bird flu which has killed 49 people in Asia since the end of 2003, medical…
Hong Kong receptacle for electronic waste:Greenpeace
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
Hong Kong has become a dumping ground for electronic waste from the United States, Europe and Japan and soil tests have uncovered excessive lead…
Septicemia deaths higher in less ill ICU patients
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
Death rates in the intensive care unit (ICU) as a result of bloodstream infections are significantly greater for moderately sick patients than for…
Laura Bush says she, president have living wills
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
A situation similar to that of Terri Schiavo is unlikely to occur in President George W. Bush’s family because both he and his wife,…
Canada hints at possible universal mad cow testing
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
Canada might move toward universal testing of its cattle for mad cow disease as a way of improving foreign beef sales stunted by an…
Darfur death toll may be 300,000, say UK lawmakers
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
As many as 300,000 people may have died in Sudan’s western Darfur region in a conflict the international community is doing too little to…
Schiavo parents seek new chance in court
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
The parents of the brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo renewed a request for a hearing before a full appeals court in their fight to…
Reduced aid could spell disaster for N. Korea
• Public Health • Mar 29 05
Political tensions and government controls in North Korea are jeopardizing international relief efforts, putting the communist state at risk of a humanitarian disaster,…
Vietnam family of five confirmed with bird flu
• Public Health • Mar 29 05
A Vietnamese couple and their three children have been infected by Asia’s bird flu in the latest human cases of the deadly virus that…
EU seeks advice on long-term effects of GMO crops
• Public Health • Mar 29 05
The European Commission wants to know how genetically modified (GMO) crops might affect human and animal health in the longer term, eight years after…
Schiavo to undergo autopsy to end debate: lawyer
• Public Health • Mar 29 05
The husband of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo has ordered an autopsy after she dies to silence allegations his plan to cremate her body…
Zimbabwe’s war on AIDS threatened by cash crunch
• Public Health • Mar 28 05
Zimbabwe, one of the countries worst hit by the AIDS, is not getting enough money to fight the epidemic, the main U.N.…
Schiavo case sparks sympathy, scorn among Dutch
• Public Health • Mar 28 05
The fight in the United States over the life of the severely brain damaged women Terri Schiavo has sparked intense interest in the Netherlands…
Japan court ruling raises questions on life support
• Public Health • Mar 28 05
A Japanese court ruling handing a suspended sentence to a doctor who removed a comatose patient’s breathing tube and injected him with muscle…
British cardinal compares abortion to Nazi eugenics
• Public Health • Mar 28 05
Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic has compared abortion to the eugenics of Nazi Germany, in comments which seem certain to push the…
Ebola-Like Virus Deaths Climb in Angola
• Public Health • Mar 26 05
The death toll from an Ebola-like virus in Angola rose to 119 on Saturday, with two deaths reported in the capitol…
Pope, in Silence, Celebrates Good Friday
• Public Health • Mar 26 05
A silent and apparently very sick Pope John Paul II joined thousands at a Good Friday service via a live video link from his…
U.S. drug trials proposal unethical, critics say
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is flouting ethical practice by proposing that international guidelines protecting patients need not apply to clinical trials conducted…
Medicare may be harder to fix than Social Security
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
The U.S. Medicare system, which provides health care to the elderly, faces more serious shortfalls in coming years than Social Security does, and its…
Pneumonia vax curbs death in African infants
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
A vaccine against pneumonia has proven to be very effective in reducing hospitalizations and death among infants in a rural African setting,…
Six diseases cause 73 percent of child deaths - WHO
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
Six mainly preventable diseases account for 73 percent of child deaths each year, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
Pneumonia accounts…
Death toll from killer virus in Angola rises to 114
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
A total of 114 people in Angola, including an Italian doctor, have died in a rare Marburg epidemic, and health officials said on Friday…
Pentagon offers new health benefits to reservists
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
The Pentagon said on Thursday that National Guard and Reserve troops ordered to active duty since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will be…
Vietnam bird flu death toll rises to 35 - UPDATE 2
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
A 17-year-old woman became Vietnam’s 35th bird flu victim on Friday, although tests on a third Cambodian suspected of contracting the virus, which has…
Brazil probes Colombian rebels’ medical drugs link
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
Colombian rebels may have acquired government-supplied medical drugs in Brazil, possibly from health workers, to treat a disease plaguing their forces, Brazilian federal police…