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Life expectancy in US hits record high-CDC
• Public Health • Feb 28 05
Americans are living longer than ever largely because of declining death rates from heart disease, cancer and stroke, the federal government…
New cases of Congo plague but appears contained
• Public Health • Feb 28 05
Doctors have found at least 60 new cases of plague in eastern Congo but the disease does not appear to be spreading beyond the…
Fight against polio launched in Ivory Coast
• Public Health • Feb 28 05
On foot and by bicycle, an army of 28,000 people advanced through towns and remote villages in Ivory Coast Sunday to vaccinate children against…
Showing off best of Health
• Public Health • Feb 27 05
The NHS is showcasing the best of its work this week.
The Trent region’s Building on Success event will highlight initiatives that have improved…
Pope’s health improving
• Public Health • Feb 27 05
Pope John Paul II’s health “continues to be good”, he is eating regularly and has begun rehabilitation exercises for his breathing and speech following…
New Virus May Have Come from Monkeys, Experts Say
• Public Health • Feb 27 05
Two new retroviruses never before seen in humans have turned up among people who regularly hunt monkeys in Cameroon, researchers reported Friday.
Like the…
MT’s Schweitzer Leads Charge Against Bush on Prescription Drugs
• Public Health • Feb 26 05
Around these parts, Montana’s new Democratic governor Brian Schweitzer has come in for a lot of (well-deserved) adulation. So it was with special interest…
Carbondale hospital has brain surgeon again
• Public Health • Feb 26 05
CARBONDALE, Ill. - Memorial Hospital in Carbondale has recruited a new brain surgeon nearly a year after the resignations of the hospital’s last two…
Pope’s hospital message shows spiritual ‘heart and soul’ of papacy
• Public Health • Feb 26 05
After being shot in St. Peter’s Square in 1981, Pope John Paul II was said to beseech the Virgin Mary for strength and later…
Judge skeptical of tobacco argument in U.S. suit
• Public Health • Feb 25 05
A federal judge on Thursday voiced skepticism about a key argument that cigarette makers are using to defend themselves against government charges of…
Dirty water, poor sanitation kill thousands daily
• Public Health • Feb 25 05
Unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation kill 4,000 children every day, global health experts said on Friday.
They described the deaths as a “silent…
UN predicts 9.1 billion people on earth by 2050
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
The human race is expected to swell from the current 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion people by 2050, with populations exploding in hungry developing…
Hospitals aim to split device savings with doctors
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
Hospitals desperate to save money are trying to get doctors to find methods of cutting supply costs and offering to share savings with doctors.
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Deaths from UK hospital superbug rising - report
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
Deaths involving the hospital “superbug” MRSA in England and Wales have risen in recent years, according to a report on Thursday.
Mentions of…
Afghanistan cold said to claim 150 children
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
An international aid group said on Thursday it had reports that up to 150 children had died of cold-related illnesses in one part of…
Senator resisting cut in asbestos claims fund
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter indicated on Thursday he is resisting Republican attempts to reduce the size of a proposed $140 billion…
Vietnam appeals for help in bird flu fight
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
Vietnam, the country hit worst by bird flu, has appealed for technical and financial help to fight the virus now endemic in the region,…
Doctors search for plague victims in Congo’s east
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
Doctors scoured remote villages in eastern Congo on Thursday for people infected with plague after an outbreak in a diamond mining town that has…
Pope hospitalized again after suffering relapse of flu, fever
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance Thursday suffering fever and congestion from a relapse of…
Arizona doctors charged with selling fake Botox to stay in jail
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
A judge has ruled that two Arizona doctors charged with selling a knockoff of the anti-wrinkle drug Botox pose a risk to flee the…
Yearly migration to Mexico loses a lot of its flutter
• Public Health • Feb 24 05
High on a remote mountaintop, Alfredo Cruz Colin gazed at the giant pines and firs where millions of orange-and-black monarch butterflies spend the winter…
US officials lost trust during 2001 anthrax attacks
• Public Health • Feb 23 05
Postal workers exposed to anthrax during a series of attacks in 2001 felt they were not helped by U.S. health officials and lost trust…
US government paying ever more health costs - report
• Public Health • Feb 23 05
Within a decade, the public sector will be paying nearly half the cost of U.S. health care, which is also swallowing an ever-larger chunk…
World must act on bird flu or face pandemic - U.N.
• Public Health • Feb 23 05
The world is overdue an influenza pandemic and it must act swiftly to prevent one being triggered by bird flu now endemic in parts…
U.S. drug czar likens fighting drugs to terror
• Public Health • Feb 23 05
The United States should employ some of the techniques it is using to fight international terrorism in its war on drugs, U.S. drug czar…