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One in eight kids in Banda Aceh badly malnourished
• Public Health • Feb 11 05
One in eight small children examined in and around the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian provincial capital of Banda Aceh is suffering from acute malnutrition, the U.N.…
Lawmakers criticize White House drug war budget
• Public Health • Feb 11 05
The Bush administration on Thursday claimed major successes in reducing illegal drug use among teens, but lawmakers from both parties criticized its proposed budget…
Bone thinning occurs faster among whites: study
• Public Health • Feb 11 05
Black women are known to have higher bone mineral density, associated with stronger bones, than white women. New findings suggest that one reason for…
Medicare cost estimates spark disputes in Congress
• Public Health • Feb 10 05
Rising cost projections for the new Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices…
Court rejects $15 mln award in Kansas smoker case
• Public Health • Feb 10 05
A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $15 million punitive damages award to a lifelong smoker who sued R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.…
Japanese bill recognises problem of elderly abuse
• Public Health • Feb 10 05
A proposed law to deal with abuse of the elderly was unveiled by Japanese lawmakers on Thursday, highlighting a problem in a society where…
Republicans ask for changes to asbestos plan
• Public Health • Feb 10 05
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked for further changes in a plan for a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund at a meeting to…
Republicans to meet on key senator’s asbestos bid
• Public Health • Feb 09 05
Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee plan to meet privately on Thursday to gauge support for their chairman’s embattled proposal to create a…
Smaller fixes could bolster Social Security -AARP
• Public Health • Feb 09 05
he U.S. retirement system does not need a major overhaul or private accounts and can be stabilized through a series of smaller fixes, the…
Pope Marks Ash Wednesday In Hospital
• Public Health • Feb 09 05
A Vatican spokesman said Pope John Paul II observed Ash Wednesday in his hospital room, receiving ashes and inviting his doctors to stay for…
Cancer society begins Daffodil Days sale
• Public Health • Feb 09 05
The American Cancer Society has begun its Daffodil Days sale to raise funds to aid research, education, advocacy and service.
The daffodils, which serve…
UK researchers get therapeutic cloning licence
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
Professor Ian Wilmut, who first cloned a sheep, Dolly, said on Tuesday he has been granted a UK licence to use cell nuclear replacement…
Asbestos bill delayed at Republicans’ request
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has requested a one-week delay in the introduction of a bill to create a $140 billion fund to…
Britain may have found goat with BSE
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
Britain said Tuesday a goat diagnosed as having the brain-wasting disease scrapie in 1990 may have had mad cow disease, but it would take…
CJ’s Place Provides Safe Housing For People With Mental Illness
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
A new apartment building in St. Louis is the first of its kind in the state. It’s called CJ’s Place.
It provides safe housing…
Helena children’s hospital sued over alleged sex assault
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
The guardian of a teenage girl who allegedly had a sexual relationship with one of her caregivers during her stay at a children’s psychiatric…
Kyoto global warming pact begins next week
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
A landmark U.N. plan to curb global warming comes into force next week despite a U.S. pullout and with many countries way off course…
Several Flu Shot Clinics Open This Week
• Public Health • Feb 08 05
Several flu shot clinics are being held this week across New Mexico.
The first is today at the Alamosa Public Health Office, at 6900…
US foreign aid up for HIV/AIDS, Millennium funds
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
U.S. foreign aid would rise 10.7 percent under the proposed White House budget released on Monday, with more money to fight HIV/AIDS and help…
Bush seeks 20 pct more to protect US food supply
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
The Bush administration asked Congress on Monday for a 20 percent or $30 million increase in fiscal 2006 to protect the nation’s food supply…
Full hospitals turn away patients
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
Ambulances have been queuing outside two major hospital forced to close to all but critically-ill patients because of a bed crisis.
A Gwent NHS…
IBM Offers Software to Avert Public Health Crises
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
IBM on Monday will unveil software it developed in coordination with U.S. health agencies and private hospitals that makes it easier for health care…
Kevorkian Back in Prison After Surgery
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is back in prison after undergoing surgery for a double hernia, his attorney said Monday.
Mayer Morganroth said Kevorkian returned…
Pope to Stay at Hospital
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
Pope John Paul II will stay at hospital for a few more days, the Vatican has announced Monday.
The pontiff, aged 84, was rushed…
Court blocks rule easing retiree healthcare coverage
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
An advocacy group for U.S. retirees said on Friday that it won a court order barring the government from allowing companies to drop older…