EU needs new chemical rules to halt toxic fish: WWF
• Public Health • Jan 25 05
An environmental action group urged the European Union on Tuesday to boost testing on chemicals and halt pollution in the Baltic Sea because the…
Darfur humanitarian crisis seems to have eased - WHO
• Public Health • Jan 25 05
A humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, once called the world’s worst, appears to have eased, with the death toll from disease dropping, a…
IVF pre-test avoids serious newborn disease
• Childbirth • Jan 25 05
In a new study, researchers describe the first case in which preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) - a test performed before implantation of a test-tube…
China tells provinces to gird for bird flu
• Public Health • Jan 25 05
China’s agriculture ministry has called for stepped up efforts across the country to immunise poultry and help stave off bird flu, a new outbreak…
Heart patients urged to get into rehab
• Heart • Jan 24 05
The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends in a statement issued Monday that doctors strongly encourage their cardiac patients to participate in rehabilitation programs aimed…
Heart risk factors in midlife raise dementia risk
• Neurology • Jan 24 05
The presence in middle age of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, like smoking or high cholesterol, is strongly tied to the development of dementia…
Botswana winning education war on AIDS with “ABC”
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
Botswana, battling one of the world’s highest HIV/AIDS infection rates, has made major headway with its campaign to fight the deadly epidemic through public…
Abortion foes optimistic at dawn of Bush 2nd term
• Gender: Female • Jan 24 05
Should women who seek abortions be required to hear about possible fetal pain? Should it be a crime for adults to take minors across…
To avoid stroke, order fish baked - not fried
• Neurology • Jan 24 05
For seniors, eating tuna or fish that’s been broiled or baked appears to lower stroke risk, but frying the catch of the day may…
Low birth weights fuel infant mortality rise - CDC
• Childbirth • Jan 24 05
A jump in the number of babies born at abnormally low birth weights was the main reason why the U.S. infant mortality rate rose…
New anthrax vaccine promises rapid protection
• Drug News • Jan 24 05
A kind of gene-therapy vaccine produces rapid immunity to anthrax, animal experiments show.
According to Dr. Ronald G. Crystal and colleagues from Cornell University…
Bird flu likely jumped between humans last year
• Flu • Jan 24 05
A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark the first documented case of…
No evidence of “cancer personality”: study
• Cancer • Jan 24 05
Being open and easy-going can win you friends, and it probably won’t raise your cancer risk either, according to a study published Monday.
The…
Raw duck blood blamed for Vietnam bird flu cases
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
Three brothers in northern Vietnam who contracted bird flu all drank raw duck blood at a family feast, newspapers said on Monday, calming initial…
Impotence drug may reduce heart failure - study
• Gender: Male • Jan 24 05
The impotence drug Viagra may also help prevent the abnormal growth of the heart seen in some types of heart disease, researchers reported on…
28 Afghan children die in disease outbreaks
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
At least 28 Afghan children have died from outbreaks of whooping cough and measles in central Afghanistan in the past week, the public health…
2 many txt msgs bad 4 yr health, Italian docs say
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
Excessive text messaging may be bad for you, or at least for your fingers.
That’s what some Italian doctors think. They are telling people,…
Human embryonic stem cell lines found contaminated
• Genetics • Jan 24 05
Stem cell lines from human embryos, which are grown with animal-derived cells, have become contaminated with a product that human cells are genetically unable…
Gov. Bush loses US appeal in Florida right-to-die case
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback on Monday to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s efforts to intervene to keep a severely brain-damaged woman on…
Vioxx, Celebrex were overprescribed, US study says
• Drug News • Jan 24 05
The two popular painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex, heavily marketed as “super-aspirin,” were prescribed for millions of patients who did not need them or should…
FDA delays nonprescription morning-after pill rule
• Drug News • Jan 24 05
U.S. regulators have delayed a decision on whether to approve over-the-counter sales of a “morning-after pill” to prevent pregnancy, drugmaker Barr Pharmaceuticals said on…
Asia bird flu outbreak spurs EU to check readiness
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
The outbreak of deadly bird flu in Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe’s preparedness for the spread of a disease…
Ethiopia launches free AIDS drug treatment
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 24 05
Ethiopia, one of the world’s poorest countries severely affected by HIV/AIDS, started a programme on Monday to give free antiretroviral drug treatment to 320,000…
U.N. aims to get clean water into world’s schools
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
The United Nations will launch a global campaign on Monday aimed at ensuring every school in the world has clean water and sanitation within…
S. Africa mulls new courts for illegal circumcision
• Public Health • Jan 24 05
South African authorities say they want to introduce special courts to prosecute people doing botched circumcisions in the Eastern Cape as they try to…