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UN says mad cow tests working, despite outbreaks
• Public Health • Feb 07 05
Testing for mad cow disease is working in catching cases of the lethal brain-wasting disorder, the United Nations said on Monday, in the wake…
Pope’s health fuels speculation about retirement
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
Ten years after an assassin’s bullet almost killed him in 1981, Pope John Paul II laid it in the crown of a statue of…
State finds abuse at Gooding nursing home
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
GOODING, Idaho A southern Idaho nursing home has been placed on probation after a surprise inspection by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
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Doctors’ Group Buys Clinical Information System
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
More than 75 physicians and 85 other caregivers will use TouchWorks to improve care and doctor productivity.
Looking for a way to improve patient…
Meningitis outbreak under control
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
Health experts in Shanghai are testing to determine if a baby diagnosed by doctors as having meningitis actually died from the disease, a newspaper…
Alzheimer’s Assn. offers new help line
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
The Alzheimer’s Association, Connecticut Chapter an-nounces the roll out of a new statewide toll free telephone number 866-3MEMORY.
“An easier access to information…
UN Treaty Writers Weigh Abortion Ban for Disabled
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
U.N. diplomats drafting an international treaty on the rights of the disabled debated a possible ban on the abortion of fetuses with disabilities in…
Somalia minister rejects Africa “AIDS” troops
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
African Union troops must not deploy in Somalia because they may take power and spread AIDS, a government minister said in remarks published on…
Britain told to prepare for blood shortages
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
Britain should prepare for shortages of blood because the number of donors is dropping and concerns about the human form of mad cow…
Poland records 22nd case of mad cow disease
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
Poland recorded a new case of mad cow disease on Friday, the 22nd discovered in a cow since tests began in 2001, a chief…
Vietnam donors to meet over bird flu fight
• Public Health • Feb 04 05
Vietnam, where the deadly bird flu has killed 13 people in the last month, is in “the emergency stage” of its war on the…
New Health Chief sees changes in aid for poor
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
President Bush’s budget will include $140 billion to expand health coverage for the uninsured but also will seek about $45 billion in savings from…
Bush signals tougher embryo research limits
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
U.S. President George W. Bush plans to press for even stricter limits on human embryo research and has no intention of softening restrictions…
Whooping cough kills six Afghans, 200 ill - paper
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Six Afghans have been killed by an outbreak of whooping cough in the remote central province of Ghor, a government newspaper said on Thursday.
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Canada’s blood supply wins top marks in study
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Canada’s blood supply, rocked by a public health disaster in the 1980s when thousands were infected by tainted blood, is now one of the…
Highest number of road deaths in U.S. on 4th July
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
More people are killed in road accidents in the United States on July 4th, Independence Day, than any other day of the year, researchers…
Vietnam appeals for help in bird flu fight
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Vietnam said on Thursday it has appealed for international help in its desperate battle against a rapidly spreading outbreak of bird flu, which has…
England gets cleaner but London remains filthy
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
While parks and leafy lanes are getting cleaner, a survey published on Wednesday showed that London still holds the ignoble title as the dirtiest…
Silica issue clouds outlook for asbestos bill
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
A bill to establish a $140-billion asbestos compensation fund was undergoing a rewrite on Wednesday after warnings that a provision affecting claims for silica,…
Doctors keeping an eye on pope
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Pope John Paul II’s doctors were on guard for complications Wednesday, a day after the 84-year-old pontiff was hospitalized with the flu and breathing…
Two senior Vatican officials in charge while pope in hospital
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Two men hold the keys to the Roman Catholic Church while an incapacitated Pope John Paul II remains in hospital - the Vatican’s Secretary…
Health chief hits at Malvern hospital hostility
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
A HEALTH chief has hit out at “hostility and opposition” to consultation over a proposed new Malvern hospital, by threatening to stop the public…
Man who tried to assassinate pope wishes him ‘speedy recovery’ from flu
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 released a cryptic statement Thursday wishing the hospitalized pontiff a speedy recovery and…
Mental Health Care survey urges patients to respond
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
More than 800 people who have recently used Somerset’s mental health services are to be invited to share their views on the quality of…
U.S. Chickenpox Deaths At All-Time Low, Study Says
• Public Health • Feb 03 05
Ten years after chickenpox vaccine was introduced in the United States, deaths from the childhood disease are at an all-time low.
A report from…