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Pentagon mail center tests positive for anthrax
• Public Health • Mar 16 05
Samples collected from a Defense Department mail center near the Pentagon building have tested positive for deadly anthrax bacteria in a preliminary…
Brown promises UK national stem cell network
• Public Health • Mar 16 05
Britain aims to consolidate its position as a world leader in stem cell research with the establishment of a new national network for investigating…
Pentagon sees “no evidence” of mail center anthrax
• Public Health • Mar 16 05
Tests on filters and equipment at two shut-down postal centers that serve the Pentagon have turned up no evidence of deadly anthrax,…
Sudan tells U.N. to back up its Darfur death toll
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
Sudan demanded on Tuesday that the United Nations produce evidence to support a U.N. statement that said 180,000 people had died of disease and…
Catholic leader doubts UK’s Blair over abortion
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
A senior Catholic leader made a rare intervention into Britain’s pre-election political fray on Tuesday to back Prime Minister Tony Blair’s main opponent on…
Bill Clinton released from hospital
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was released from the hospital on Monday, four days after surgery to remove fluid and scar tissue that accumulated…
Food marketers to play up role of exercise
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
U.S. food companies will include more messages on exercise to youth in their marketing to dispel criticism of their role in childhood obesity, industry…
Anthrax tests at Pentagon prove negative
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
Two Defense Department mail handling facilities were shut down on Monday after sensitive detection devices indicated the presence of anthrax, but mail at the…
Report raises questions about U.S. cattle feed ban
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
The effectiveness of the most important U.S. safeguard against mad cow disease was questioned on Monday when a government report accused the Food and…
Malt liquor drink of homeless and unemployed -study
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
Malt liquor, a type of beer that is higher in alcohol than other brews, is largely a drink of the homeless and unemployed,…
US government witness to urge tobacco execs ouster
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
A government witness scheduled to testify in the racketeering case against cigarette makers will recommend that the courts oust senior tobacco industry management, according…
AIDS, TB, malaria body warns “ad hoc” funding risky
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
A global fund dreamt up by U.N. chief Kofi Annan to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is facing a shortfall just…
Fears grow over asbestos at Paris tourist site
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
The company that owns the Montparnesse Tower in Paris, France’s highest building and a popular tourist attraction, has been told to remove the asbestos…
Lack of cash hobbles Cambodia’s bird flu battle
• Public Health • Mar 15 05
Since her daughter became Cambodia’s first confirmed bird flu victim, 42-year-old Tim Ran has stopped eating chicken.
However, her decision is not based on…
Joining Medicaid too late explains cancer deaths: study
• Public Health • Mar 14 05
Delaying cancer treatment until after patients enroll in Medicaid results in poorer outcomes - these individuals are more likely to die of cancer, U.S.…
Photos show climate change; Ministers meet in UK
• Public Health • Mar 14 05
A photo of Mount Kilimanjaro stripped of its snowcap for the first time in 11,000 years will be used as dramatic testimony for action…
American families grapple with decisions on death
• Public Health • Mar 14 05
The legal battle over whether to remove the feeding tube that keeps a severely brain-damaged Florida woman alive has overshadowed a quiet truth about…
Vietnam Agent Orange victims slam U.S. verdict
• Public Health • Mar 11 05
The dismissal of a case in the United States that accused chemical companies of war crimes by supplying the U.S. military with Agent Orange…
Red tape hampers UK patient care, doctors say
• Public Health • Mar 11 05
Red tape and bureaucracy are undermining the role of family doctors in Britain and hampering the care of patients, according to a survey published…
Red tape and risk frustrate Kyoto’s CDM scheme
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
One of the Kyoto Protocol’s main tools for curbing greenhouse gas emissions is struggling to take off as projects get bogged down in red…
U.S. Senator says FDA too cozy with drugmakers
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has grown too close to the drug companies it regulates, raising questions about whether its acting director should…
EU ministers want tough post-Kyoto emission
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
European Union environment ministers on Thursday proposed developed nations make sweeping cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions in the years following 2012, when the…
Indian state to pay cash to girls to fix sex ratio
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
An Indian state government has offered to pay 100,000 rupees ($2,300) cash to families who have just one daughter in a bid to counteract…
Singapore govt AIDS comment outrages gay activists
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
Gay activists responded with outrage and disbelief on Thursday to statements by a Singapore official who said a gay and lesbian festival - dubbed…
Australia struggles to win support for GMO crops
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
Consumer opposition in Australia last month forced its three biggest poultry producers to stop using imported, genetically modified feed to fatten the 450 million…