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Radioactive procedures can set off new alarms
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Most seasoned travelers know that their watches and belt buckles can set off airport metal detectors.
A recent study also shows that patients who…
Doctors dispute Blues discount
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Michigan doctors want protection from being terminated from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan insurance plans while a judge decides whether the insurer wrongly…
Medicare preventive care is urged
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Government and health organization leaders Monday urged Medicare beneficiaries to take advantage of new preventive benefits, saying the emphasis on prevention will save lives…
Britain’s Brown unveils $10 bln plan to beat AIDS
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
British finance minister Gordon Brown unveiled a $10 billion plan to revitalise the fight against AIDS on Thursday, saying his scheme might be the…
Causes of death differ in blacks and whites in US
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
In 2002, three of the ten leading causes of death differed between blacks and whites in the US, reflecting disparities in health care, according…
Dutch retailer pulls kids’ handset on health fears
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
A Dutch electronics retail chain this week withdrew a mobile phone aimed at children between the ages of four and eight after British…
Nigeria, Sudan vow to halt polio spread in Africa
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Nigeria, which accounts for nearly three quarters of polio cases worldwide, is determined to halt the spread of the crippling disease by immunising all…
Sleep-deprived young docs prone to auto accidents
• Public Health • Jan 12 05
Trainee doctors have double the risk of having a car crash when they work more than 24 consecutive hours, according to a new report.
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Canadian promotes cartoon condoms against AIDS
• Public Health • Jan 12 05
Using humor to promote safe sex, a Canadian television producer on Tuesday launched 20 short videos of animated condoms in 41 languages to help…
New Jersey plans $380 mln for stem cell research
• Public Health • Jan 12 05
New Jersey, home to scores of top drug companies, plans to spend $380 million on stem cell research to stay in the forefront of…
Lifestyle may explain much of drop in heart deaths
• Public Health • Jan 12 05
The sharp drop-off in UK heart disease deaths in recent decades may owe much more to prevention than to advances in treatment, a new…
Take care with mobile phones, health report says
• Public Health • Jan 11 05
No hard evidence exists to show mobile phones damage health but users - especially children - should take care, UK scientists said in a…
Specter aims to finish US asbestos bill early Feb
• Public Health • Jan 11 05
The senator drafting a bill that aims to compensate asbestos victims from a trust fund said on Tuesday he hoped to have the measure…
UNICEF confirms measles in Aceh, fears dysentery
• Public Health • Jan 11 05
The United Nations Children’s Fund has confirmed a case of measles in Indonesia’s tsunami-devastated province of Aceh as torrential rain across the region…
Malaria seen among soldiers back from Afghanistan
• Public Health • Jan 11 05
Doctors should be on the lookout for malaria in military personnel who return from a malaria-endemic region with fever or other “indistinct” illness, military…
U.S. health care spending up 7.7 percent in 2003
• Public Health • Jan 11 05
U.S. spending on health care rose 7.7 percent to 1.7 trillion in 2003, outpacing overall economic growth by nearly 3 percentage points, according to…
Supreme Court rejects HMOs appeal in MD suit
• Public Health • Jan 10 05
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review the class-action status for a lawsuit on behalf of more than 600,000 doctors claiming six…
Powell, in Kenya, meets youths who fight HIV/AIDS
• Public Health • Jan 10 05
Secretary of State Colin Powell heard a 11-year-old speak of valuing her virginity and an HIV-positive woman advise abstinence Saturday as he met Kenyan…
Bird flu kills Vietnam teenager, new case cited
• Public Health • Jan 10 05
A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl who battled bird flu for more than two weeks has died, the country’s third casualty in 10 days from the…
Virus hospital reopens more wards
• Public Health • Jan 09 05
A Kent hospital has reopened more wards which were closed because of an outbreak of the Norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea.
Seven wards…
Cancer-stricken boy takes battle to eBay auction
• Public Health • Jan 09 05
David Dingman-Grover decided Frankenstein would be a good name for his tumor.
The 9-year-old figured if he could get over being scared of a…
Virus hit hospital ward to reopen
• Public Health • Jan 09 05
Health bosses hope that one of two wards that remain closed at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, will open later this…
Woman aids starving horses
• Public Health • Jan 08 05
The Illinois Department of Agriculture served notices of violation of the Animal Welfare Act to owners of the pasture and the horses found malnourished…
Nurse suspended after patient dies at South LA hospital
• Public Health • Jan 08 05
A 47-year-old patient died at a troubled South Los Angeles hospital after an intensive care nurse ignored her worsening condition and only alerted doctors…
Mexico: National healthcare plan would insure everyone
• Public Health • Jan 08 05
As U.S. officials struggle with problems of high costs and low coverage in the American health system, the Mexican Popular Health Insurance plan aims…