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Utility Pollution bill stalls in Senate committee
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
A Bush administration plan to cut air pollution from coal-fired power plants failed to pass the Senate Environment Committee on Wednesday, a setback for…
Computer alert stops clots in hospital patients
• Public Health • Mar 10 05
An alert that pops up when doctors place orders on the hospital’s computer system may help prevent blood clots in high-risk patients, according to…
Health gap ups deaths for African Americans
• Public Health • Mar 09 05
Eliminating the mortality gap between whites and African Americans could save more than 83,000 lives annually, according to a just-released study.
Survival has…
US senators encouraged by Specter asbestos talks
• Public Health • Mar 09 05
U.S. senators from both parties reported some progress on Tuesday on a struggling proposal to create a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, after some…
Bulgarian police bust kidney-trafficking ring
• Public Health • Mar 09 05
Bulgarian police have arrested three people for illegally trafficking human kidneys to transplant patients in neighboring Turkey, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
Police detained…
Senate’s Frist sees $14 billion Medicaid savings
• Public Health • Mar 09 05
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Wednesday the Senate budget resolution would propose Medicaid savings of $14 billion over five years.
Frist told…
Vietnamese relatives have bird flu, no symptoms
• Public Health • Mar 09 05
Two elderly Vietnamese relatives of people who died of bird flu have tested positive for the deadly virus despite showing no symptoms, health officials…
Senators eye longer specialty hospital moratorium
• Public Health • Mar 09 05
A federal advisory group urged lawmakers on Tuesday to extend a moratorium on new, small specialty hospitals while more information is gathered on whether…
Australia government to outlaw Internet suicides
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
Australia’s government plans to outlaw inciting, promoting or teaching people how to commit suicide on the Internet, but Justice Minister Chris Ellison said on…
Taiwan frets over record-low birth rate
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
Taiwan health worker Ma Pei-ching thought she had a tough job 20 years ago, going door-to-door handing out condoms and teaching couples about…
Bed nets, drought help Eritrea slash malaria rate
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
Malaria infections in Eritrea have fallen sharply in the last few years thanks to increased use of bed nets and a drought which…
Toddlers in US often lack vaccination
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
In a 2003 survey, 37 percent of children in the US were undervaccinated for more than 6 months during their first 2 years of…
Clinton to undergo heart operation, office says
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
Former President Bill Clinton will undergo a low-risk operation to remove scar tissue and fluid from around his heart, his office said on…
New method makes ‘safer’ stem cells, study finds
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
Researchers looking for ways to make safer stem cells for use in medical therapies said on Monday they had grown human cells without the…
Medicaid fails to check drug pricing - report
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
U.S. Medicaid officials failed to properly check the prices drug companies charge the health insurance program for the poor and disabled, according to a…
UN backs U.S. plea for total ban on human cloning
• Public Health • Mar 08 05
A divided U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday approved a nonbinding statement urging governments to adopt laws banning all forms of human cloning, including the…
U.S. defends opposition to addict injection rooms
• Public Health • Mar 07 05
American opposition to injection rooms and needle exchange for intravenous drug users is not undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases that…
Vietnam nurse infected with bird flu - doctor
• Public Health • Mar 07 05
A 26-year-old Vietnamese male nurse who tended a patient with bird flu has caught the virus that has killed 47 people in Asia, a…
Health crisis brews in Russia’s Chechnya
• Public Health • Mar 07 05
Viskhan Siriyev has not walked or talked since a bomb hit his house at the start of the Chechen war ten years ago. He…
Somalis call for help to clean up hazardous waste
• Public Health • Mar 07 05
Somali members of parliament called on Saturday for international help to clean up tons of hazardous waste dislodged by the Asian tsunami, which they…
The school meals failure
• Public Health • Mar 07 05
School dinners given to half a million youngsters every day provide poor helpings of the key nutrients vital for a growing child, a study…
Medication errors common at hospital admission
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Potentially harmful medication errors are often made at the time of hospital admission, Canadian investigators report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“It’s important…
Declaring victory, U.S. drops abortion line at UN
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
The United States withdrew an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. document on Friday but insisted it won a victory.
With some 6,000…
Bush picks scientist to head EPA
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
President Bush nominated Acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Steve Johnson on Friday to be the first career EPA employee to head the agency.
Johnson,…
Court allows HIV lawsuit against American Airlines
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Three applicants denied flight attendant jobs at American Airlines can sue even though they lied about their HIV-positive status, a federal appeals court ruled…