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Guns, alcohol drive S. Africa violent death rate
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
South Africans are more likely to be shot than suffer any other kind of unnatural death as gun crime pushes the country’s violent death…
Graco recalls toddler beds, fined $4 million
• Public Health • Mar 22 05
Graco Children’s Products Inc., a unit of Newell Rubbermaid Inc., has been fined $4 million for failing to report hundreds of incidents, some fatal,…
Activists worried about EU climate change resolve
• Public Health • Mar 21 05
Environmental groups voiced concern on Monday that European leaders would water down proposals that seek sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by developed nations…
“Naked Chef” puts junk food high on UK election menu
• Public Health • Mar 21 05
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s high-profile campaign against junk food has made school lunches an election issue in Britain, where obesity rates are growing faster…
EU states overruled on GMOs by own deadlock
• Public Health • Mar 21 05
Europe could see a series of new biotech foods quietly approved with no influence from EU governments if they cannot escape from years of…
Most think U.S. Congress wrong on Schiavo case
• Public Health • Mar 21 05
Americans broadly and strongly disapprove of the intervention by Congress in the case of Terri Schiavo - and most believe lawmakers are using her…
Britain off course on domestic CO2 emissions targets
• Public Health • Mar 21 05
Britain will miss its own target on cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions but will meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments, according to projections released on…
Federal court reviewing Schiavo right-to-die case
• Public Health • Mar 21 05
The fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman was back in the courts on Monday after President Bush signed emergency legislation aimed at prolonging the…
Overdoses kill 70,000 Russians every year
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
Some 70,000 Russians - close to 200 people a day - die from drug overdoses, a top official said on Friday.
The figures illustrate…
Florida judge lifts stay blocking feeding tube removal
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
A Florida court on Friday cleared the way for the feeding tube to be removed from a brain-damaged Florida woman, a court official said.
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US Senate rejects Democratic abortion amendment
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
Senate Democrats, saying they are seeking common ground in the nation’s divisive abortion debate, offered a pregnancy prevention measure in the Senate Thursday night…
Perdue recalls 230,700 pounds of chicken strips
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
Privately held Perdue Farms on Thursday recalled 230,700 pounds of cooked chicken breast strips due to possible underprocessing, the U.S. Agriculture Department said.
The…
Supervised facilities reduce syringe sharing
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
The findings from a Canadian study suggest that medically supervised drug injection facilities can help cut syringe sharing among injection drug users, and subsequently…
Senate adds $500 mln for global AIDS fund
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
The U.S. Senate on Thursday backed a $500 million increase in funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
No stopping global warming, studies predict
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
Even if the production of pollutants were stopped tomorrow, global warming would still get worse, two teams of researchers reported on Thursday.
Sea…
U.S. Congress suggests national steroid law
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday said a national anti-steroid policy might be needed to deter the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs among Major League Baseball…
Republicans close on asbestos fund
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
The main author of a plan to compensate asbestos victims from a $140 billion fund said on Thursday he was close to getting Republican…
UNICEF says conflict puts more children at risk
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
Life for most of the world’s children has improved over the last decade but Africa is bucking that trend and conflicts are putting…
Senate Republican moderates oppose Medicaid budget
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
A brewing Senate rebellion against President Bush’s proposed savings in the Medicaid health program for the poor gained strength on Wednesday and some senators…
Indonesia reports bird flu outbreak in chickens
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
Bird flu has re-emerged in Indonesia’s main island of Java and South Sulawesi province since the start of the year, prompting the government to…
Tanzania to get anti-HIV drugs to more people
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
Tanzania plans to sharply increase the number of HIV patients receiving life-prolonging medicines by the end of this year with the help…
KFC pulls two menu items in China tainted with dye
• Public Health • Mar 17 05
KFC has pulled two chicken dishes off its fast food restaurant menu across China, its owner’s second-most profitable market, after discovering they contained a…
UCLA to start $20 mln stem cell research center
• Public Health • Mar 16 05
The University of California at Los Angeles will spend $20 million over five years to establish a stem cell research institute and compete for…
HHS Secretary defends Medicaid proposals
• Public Health • Mar 16 05
The joint federal-state Medicaid program for the poor would not be cut under President Bush’s budget proposal, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael…
Immune response may contribute to meth binges
• Public Health • Mar 16 05
Methamphetamine stimulates an immune response that may induce tolerance in users, according to a presentation Tuesday at the 229th national meeting of the…