INFLUENZA H1N1
WHO says mutation found in virus strain
The World Health Organisation said on Friday that a mutation has been found in samples of Influenza H1N1 taken after the first two deaths from the virus in Norway.
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Four pilgrim deaths from swine flu ahead of hajj
Four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage have died of swine flu, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency on Saturday.It said a Moroccan woman, a Sudanese man and an Indian man -- all aged ...
AFP
Embryonic stem cells harnessed for skin grafts
French doctors on Friday said they had used human embryonic stem cells to grow skin that one day may be used as potentially life-saving temporary patches for patients suffering bad burns.The laboratory achievement has been tested on mice and not yet
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Failed anti-depressant drug could be 'women's Viagra'
A drug that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said Tuesday.Women who took the drug flibanserin when it was being tested as an ...
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Groups at risk from swine flu should avoid hajj: study
People at risk of suffering severe consequences from swine flu should postpone going to the hajj in 2009, according to a study released on Saturday.Some 2.5 million Muslims from more than 160 countries converge annually on the Islamic holy cities of
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Swine flu has killed nearly 4,000 people since April
In its latest count, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has reported that nearly 4,000 people have died from Swine Flu, which is six times more than the previously released 672 deaths.
THE OBSERVERS
China scaring kids out of fast food chains
The Beijing Burger King isn’t even open yet, but it’s already talk of the town. The Chinese authorities are finally facing up to their ever widening population, with a scary ad campaign.
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Sunbeds: 250,000 English kids at risk of cancer
A quarter of a million children in England aged 11 to 17 face a higher risk of developing malignant skin cancer by using tanning beds, researchers said Friday.Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the researchers called for urgent ...
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Laser therapy helps neck pain, study says
A non-invasive, cold form of laser treatment can help people suffering from chronic neck pain, a condition that affects up to one person in four, a study published online by The Lancet said on Friday.So-called low-level laser therapy (LLLT) entails ...
HEALTH
France kicks off widespread swine flu vaccination campaign
A widespread vaccination campaign against the A(H1N1) flu virus begins Thursday across France, with roughly 6 million high-risk individuals expected to receive the vaccine as priority patients.
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Women deprived of health care at key moments: WHO
Women are often deprived of health care in the crucial years of puberty and old age due to social inequalities with men, the World Health Organisation said Monday."It's time to pay girls and women back, to make sure that they get the care and ...
AGRICULTURE
UN hunger summit failed for lack of leaders, say agricultural groups
The absence of leaders from the world's wealthiest states undermined the UN Hunger Summit, rendering it a "total failure" that did nothing to help resolve the current hunger crisis, a farmers' movement said on Wednesday.
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USA
Obama lifts ban on US entry for foreign HIV patients
The United States will put an end to a 22-year-old travel ban on foreign patients infected with the AIDS virus, President Barack Obama has announced, hailing the move as a step towards ending the stigma of the disease.
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Obama declares swine flu emergency
President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a "national emergency," the White House said Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and over 1,000 deaths.The emergency declaration, signed by the president late Friday,
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Russia policies slammed at HIV conference
Russia came under fire from international AIDS campaigners on Wednesday for refusing to provide drug users with drug substitution therapy to stem a spreading HIV epidemic.Russia's chief medical official Gennady Onishchenko told a major AIDS ...
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