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Experts advise elderly to continue exercising
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
Elderly men and women may not be able to perform the same exercises as easily or comfortably as they did in their…
Officials argue over sex in prisons
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
South Africa’s jails watchdog and prison officials have locked horns in a public row over proposals to allow consensual sex behind bars.
The Department…
Scientists urge Africa to fund disease research
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
Cash-strapped African states should spend more money on research and training to tackle diseases like AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis,…
Kyoto protocol tough for emerging economies
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
It will be impossible for emerging industrial powers such as China and South Korea ever to comply with the U.N. Kyoto Protocol on curbing…
Schiavo videotape misleading, experts say
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
The videotape that runs endlessly on television stations around the world shows an apparently smiling Terri Schiavo being caressed by her mother’s loving hand.
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Australia scientists grow adult stem cells from nose
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
With the help of the Catholic Church, Australian researchers have successfully grown adult stem cells harvested from the human nose, avoiding the ethical and…
Haze hangs over Singapore as air quality worsens
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
A layer of smoke descended over Singapore on Thursday, blown from Southeast Asia’s pockets of raging bush fires and causing the island’s…
Calif. high court dismisses stem cell challenge
• Public Health • Mar 24 05
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two lawsuits that sought to block the state’s publicly financed $3 billion stem cell research program approved…
Charities plead with Sweden for asylum kids
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
The Red Cross and Save the Children urged Sweden on Wednesday not to deport about 150 children seeking asylum and suffering from a rare…
Stem cells may turn into neurons
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
Given the right environment, stem cells derived from bone marrow may have the potential to form full-fledged neurons, researchers in Norway report.
Previous studies…
UK scientists to probe need for monkey research
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
British scientists are to take the world’s first hard look at whether monkeys should continue to be used in biological and medical research.
The…
China frees SARS hero after months of house arrest
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
A doctor who blew the whistle on China’s SARS cover-up in 2003 has been freed from months of house arrest but is barred from…
Gaddafi says will not release Bulgarian nurses
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday rejected calls from the West for the release of Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for injecting children with…
Interest in living wills surges amid Schiavo case
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
The case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of a political and legal battle over her care, has sparked renewed…
Myanmar denies bird flu report, but on alert
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
Myanmar is on alert against Asia’s deadly bird flu, officials said on Wednesday, denying a report of a possible outbreak of the virus in…
FDA seizes potentially deadly hospital beds
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, citing a risk of suffocation, said on Tuesday it ordered the seizure of enclosed hospital beds made by…
Medicare offers counseling to help smokers quit
• Public Health • Mar 23 05
Older Americans who want to quit Smoking can receive counseling through Medicare to help them kick their tobacco habit, but only if they suffer…
Report catalogs high death rate in Darfur
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
Violence, starvation and disease are killing people in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan at a pace four to six times greater than the…
U.S. judge refuses more feeding in Schiavo case
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
A federal judge refused to order the resumption of feeding for brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo on Tuesday in a blow to the parents,…
Polish MPs dilute govt’s health reform plans
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
Poland’s lower house of parliament watered down the minority government’s health reform plans on Tuesday by passing an opposition bill on financing the cash-strapped…
Congress may focus on end of life issues
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
When Congress passed extraordinary legislation in the case of a brain-damaged Florida woman, it also paved the way for broader congressional debate on end-of-life…
Health activists urge India to review patent laws
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
Health activists urged the Indian government on Tuesday to review a patent bill that makes it illegal to copy patented drugs, saying it would…
Iowa governor signs toughest U.S. anti-meth law
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
Iowa on Tuesday enacted the strongest state measure yet restricting the sale of cold medicines that contain pseudoephedrine, an ingredient used illicitly to produce…
UK hospital “superbug” MRSA kills baby
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
A two-day-old baby has died from the hospital “superbug” MRSA, a British hospital said on Tuesday.
Luke Day was born on February 2 and…
Anthrax kills 2 chimps, 2 gorillas in Cameroon
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
Anthrax has killed at least two gorillas and two chimpanzees in southeastern Cameroon, prompting fears that the highly infectious disease could spread…