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US Health nominee seeks changes in care for poor
• Public Health • Jan 20 05
President George W. Bush’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, Mike Leavitt, called on Wednesday for changes in the nation’s Medicaid program for…
Medicare to pay for more heart devices
• Public Health • Jan 20 05
Medicare will soon fund implantable heart devices for thousands more patients, after publication of a landmark study finding the devices can save more…
Spain’s Catholic Church reaffirms condoms immoral
• Public Health • Jan 20 05
Spain’s Catholic bishops on Wednesday moved to quell a controversy sparked when a prelate suggested his Church had relaxed its opposition to condoms to…
Calif. Democrats say state health care a priority
• Public Health • Jan 20 05
Creating a state-run health care system for all Californians will be a high legislative priority this year, the state’s top lawmaker said on Wednesday…
Cancer Bigger Killer Than Heart Disease For Most Americans
• Public Health • Jan 20 05
For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday. The good news…
New Bird Flu Outbreak Reported in Thailand
• Public Health • Jan 20 05
A new outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu has been detected in Thailand, prompting the government to declare a high alert throughout…
WHO begins building smallpox vaccine reserve
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
Work has started on building a 200 million-dose stockpile of smallpox vaccines but it could take up to three years to complete, World…
Fatal medication errors peak at start of the month
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
Deaths related to medication errors appear to rise sharply during the first few days of each month, suggesting that hectic pharmacies may be…
Brazil hands out record 11 million carnival condoms
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
Brazil, one of the Latin American countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, will hand out a record 11 million condoms to prevent…
UN envoy urges tsunami-like generosity for AIDS
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
A senior U.N. official lamented on Tuesday that the world could donate billions of dollars in aid to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami…
Safety belts saved 160,000 lives in US since 1960
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
Safety belts accounted for 160,000 or more than half of all lives saved in the United States by auto safety features adopted since…
Indonesia raises tsunami death toll to 166,320
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
Indonesia’s Health Ministry raised the country’s death toll from the Dec. 26 tsunami to 166,320 on Wednesday, pushing the total number of people killed…
Experts eye warning system for all disasters
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
As the Asian tsunami focuses world attention on natural disasters, experts on Wednesday called for a global early warning system for all such…
Vietnam issues bird flu alert, Thailand has new case
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
Vietnam told people on Wednesday not to handle dead chickens following the deaths of five people from the deadly bird flu virus and…
New UNICEF chief cool towards reproductive health
• Public Health • Jan 19 05
The new director of the U.N. children’s agency, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, said on Tuesday that social issues like reproductive health were irrelevant…
Health chief designate Leavitt lauded by senators
• Public Health • Jan 18 05
President George W. Bush’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, won bipartisan praise at the opening of his confirmation hearings…
U.S. man with nail in skull has $100,000 headache
• Public Health • Jan 18 05
Doctors who removed a 4-inch (10-cm) nail from a Colorado construction worker’s skull have left him with huge headache - a $100,000 hospital…
UK to publish adverse drug reaction data
• Public Health • Jan 17 05
Britain is to overhaul and open up its drug safety monitoring system, already viewed as one of the better schemes worldwide, in the…
Newport News Foundation Helps With Medical Costs
• Public Health • Jan 17 05
A Newport News nonprofit group is helping patients with macular degeneration to pay their medical bills.
The Patient Advocate Foundation is offering up to…
Georgia Receives More Flu Vaccine
• Public Health • Jan 17 05
Gerogia has received more flu shots, giving its residents an extra opportunity to get the shot.
“Demand is very low right now, but flu…
UK science centre to probe mysteries of the mind
• Public Health • Jan 14 05
Can there be a predisposition for fundamentalism? Do the faithful cope more easily with pain? Are they faster to recover from illness?
Such are…
Disease still a threat in tsunami-stricken Aceh-UN
• Public Health • Jan 14 05
Aid agencies have prevented disease spreading through Indonesia’s tsunami-stricken Aceh, but the threat remained strong, the United Nations said on Friday as doctors reported…
Tough seat belt laws can lower crash deaths - group
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Traffic death rates dropped sharply in several states that have strengthened their seat belt laws to the toughest on the books, a leading highway…
Fears ease over disease risk in tsunami zone - U.N.
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami could unleash epidemics that would double the death toll are fading as access to clean water improves,…
Clinic asks Australian lawmakers to donate sperm
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Politicians in one Australian state have been asked to lend a hand and become sperm donors to help arrest dwindling supplies at an in-vitro…