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Violence in Congo puts 54,000 lives at risk:UNICEF
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Ethnic violence in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left some 54,000 civilians at risk of death or disease, the United Nations Children’s Fund…
MRSA superbug spreading in the community
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
The MRSA superbug is beginning to spread among healthy people in Britain as well as hospital patients, Britain’s Health Protection Agency said on Thursday.
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Smallpox preparedness program needs clarification
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
A federal program that is supposed to protect the United States against a smallpox attack has gone awry because of a lack of clear…
Family doctors deserting Labour Party: poll
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Family doctors in Britain will be deserting the ruling Labour Party in the next election, according to a poll published on Friday.
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Tungsten shrapnel leads to tumors in rats
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Shrapnel wounds caused by weapons grade tungsten alloy triggers aggressive tumors in rats, according to military researchers.
“As per regulatory guidelines,” Dr. John F.…
Medicare drug benefit changes worry advocates
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Professionals who care for the estimated 6.3 million Americans who are eligible for both the federal Medicare and federal-state Medicaid health programs say patients…
Taiwan frets over record-low birth rate
• Public Health • Mar 04 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 contraception.
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Up to 89 million more AIDS victims in Africa by 2025 - UN
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
A further 89 million people in Africa could be infected with HIV by 2025 in the continent’s biggest crisis since slavery, the United Nations…
Deaths from measles falling but gaps remain: U.N.
• Public Health • Mar 04 05
Deaths from measles are declining worldwide, but Nigeria, India and Pakistan need to step up immunization to beat the lethal virus, U.N. agencies said…
U.S. Senate votes to block Canada cattle imports
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
The U.S. Senate voted to overturn a Bush administration plan on Thursday to allow imports of Canadian cattle, the second defeat in two days…
Program helps reduce teenagers’ risky driving
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
A program that has teenagers and parents sign driving “agreements” helps keep kids from driving under potentially hazardous conditions, according to the results…
Women and children gang raped in Congo’s Ituri: MSF
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
Women and children are being gang raped in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in what amounts to crimes against humanity, Medecins Sans Frontieres said…
U.S. Congress likely to proceed with Medicaid cuts
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
Budget leaders in the U.S. Congress say they are likely to follow the lead of President Bush and call for reductions in spending for…
Romanian mental hospitals “inhuman”, says Amnesty
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
Human rights group Amnesty International condemned Romania on Thursday for inhuman conditions in its overcrowded psychiatric institutions, saying children and agitated patients are often…
Old pimple remedy: Using ‘Spot’ to cure spots
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
Take two puppies, cut off their heads and collect the blood, reads the 17th century instructions - not for some voodoo rite but to…
EU to test readiness for bird-flu triggered pandemic
• Public Health • Mar 03 05
The European Union executive will check whether member states are ready to fight a human pandemic sparked by bird flu, putting pressure on eight…
USDA mulls listing stores involved in meat recalls
• Public Health • Mar 02 05
U.S. consumers would no longer have to wonder whether their local grocery stores are selling recalled meat products under regulations being developed by…
Republicans to meet again on asbestos bill
• Public Health • Mar 02 05
Senate Republicans will meet again on Thursday to discuss a proposal for a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, Sen. Arlen Specter said after a…
New studies point to crisis among U.S. black men
• Public Health • Mar 02 05
A batch of new studies suggesting that black males in the United States are falling ever further behind other groups in health, education…
More teens, young adults on phone while driving
• Public Health • Mar 01 05
The number of teens and young adults talking on a cell phone while driving went up again last year, according to U.S. government research…
Asbestos bill at critical stage, Specter says
• Public Health • Mar 01 05
A proposal for a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund will be put in the “deep freeze” unless lawmakers soon agree on the details, Senate…
US companies seek dismissal of Agent Orange lawsuit
• Public Health • Mar 01 05
Attorneys representing major U.S. chemical companies defended them against charges on Monday that the companies committed war crimes by supplying the military with Agent…
I don’t care what it cures, I’m not taking it…
• Public Health • Mar 01 05
Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria…
France calls for global watchdog on bio-warfare risk
• Public Health • Mar 01 05
France called on Tuesday for an international monitoring centre to stop dangerous toxins from falling into terrorist hands, as the head of Interpol…
USDA finds less E. coli tainted meat in 2004
• Public Health • Feb 28 05
U.S. food safety inspectors last year found 43 percent less ground beef tainted with a potentially fatal strain of E. coli bacteria than in…