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Geneva/Stockholm - The World Health Organization increased Friday the number of...
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Geneva - The number of laboratory confirmed cases of infections of the new influenza A(H1N1)...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,516 cases of the...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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Washington - The swine flu virus spread to 36 US states with a total of 286 confirmed cases,...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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Mexico City - Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova have raised the number of confirmed...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization Friday rejected criticism that it was too slow in reacting...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO)confirmed Friday that Taiwan has been invited to...
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Geneva - The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of...
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Washington - US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total had risen to 109, up...
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The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of swine...
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Seven European countries had confirmed cases of people infected with swine flu as of Thursday...
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced Wednesday that it had increased its preparedness level...
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Geneva - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced Wednesday that it had increased its...
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Geneva - World Health Organization officials reiterated Tuesday that travel restrictions would not...
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Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said late Monday that number of people dying...
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Washington - The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was to issue an advisory...
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Paris - The virus currently circulating in Mexico and the United States and which has killed at...
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The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 103, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) vowed on Friday to intensify the fight against malaria in...
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Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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A new campaign against malaria was announced Friday in Norway by international health agency and...
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According to a study published online Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine, the...
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People who are not ready to quit smoking right now, but they want to reduce their smoking are twice...
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Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged Asian countries to...
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Beijing - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to...
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New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday children and adults with...
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Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates...
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Washington - The United States, Mexico and Canada on Thursday urged trading partners around the...
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Washington - The number of people sickened by swine influenza in the United States increased to 642...
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Washington - Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who visited the US Centres for Disease Control and...
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New York - Authorities confirmed Thursday a total of 49 swine flu cases in New York City and...
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Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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Washington - US President Barack Obama is asking Congress for an added 1.5 billion dollars to fight...
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Washington - The number of human swine influenza cases in the United States increased to 64...
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New York - New York health authorities were looking for possible new cases of swine flu at a second...
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Physicians have found a recently mutated strain of flu that resists the most commonly...
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An experimental vaccine against malaria may
prove to be a powerful weapon in the fight against one...
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For many people trying to kick the noxious habit of smoking,
the Great American Smokeout is a...
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Cairo - Egyptian Human Rights activist and long-term democracy advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim said he...
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R&B singer Alicia Keys has apologized to fans in Indonesia
after sponsorship of her upcoming...
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Beijing officials announced a very extensive and impressive plan
to try and clear, as much as...
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Geneva - Mexico has called on members of the World Trade Organization to withdraw any measures...
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Apple Incorporated has recently announced that Chief Executing Officer (CEO) Steve Jobs had...
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A California woman has filed a lawsuit against The Dannon Company, accusing the company of false...
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The charitable arm of Internet search engine company Google, Google.org, has announced it will...
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And the first step was already taken years ago, when Maddox, 7, was adopted from Cambodia, making...
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Very determined to be taken seriously, Paris Hilton announced she will be taking a trip to Rwanda...
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A proposal filed by the Maryland State Medical Society to
label video games addiction as a mental...
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Computer industry billionaire Bill Gates announced his intention to help the Chinese government...
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Tuberculosis killed more people with HIV than ever in 2007, according to a new report released by...
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New York - The world's fresh water is a finite commodity, but growing demands for it are tearing...
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While public health campaigns remain largely focused on the young, the number of older people...
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In a time of economic distress, Bill Gates has donated through its foundation $255 million for...
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A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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Taiwan on Sunday announced the decision to ban indoor smoking, becoming the 17th state in the...
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Hospital admissions for a heart attack were cut considerably in the city of Pueblo, Colorado, after...
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More than 370,000 chickens have been culled
in China’s eastern Jiangsu province after
finding the...
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The World Health Organization, in a report released this week, warned that new cancer cases and...
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Cancer will become world’s number one killer by 2010, as the number of people in poorer countries...
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It is hoped that Guinea worm disease, a parasitic
infection caused by the nematode, Dracunculus...
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More people than ever before are living with HIV worldwide and new infections continue. HIV is a...
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A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to
be more frequent than ever nowadays....
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People suffering from the immunodeficiency virus may be soon
cured through a bone marrow...
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Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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October is the National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, a period dedicated to increasing awareness...
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Everyone knows that breakfast is the most
important meal of the day. A new study shows that...
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Tanning beds have been a subject of controversy for many
years with many dermatologists warning...
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How would you react if you found out there are high chances
that you develop a certain condition...
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An estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and
activists were present on Sunday at...
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Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday their decision to spend $500...
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Peter Piot, who has been with the United Nations in the
fight against HIV/AIDS for 13 years, will...
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Despite global efforts to fight AIDS, the number of people
who get infected is far outpacing the...
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Taking ibuprofen for more than five years may decrease the
risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,...
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French drugs group Sanofi-Aventis announced on Thursday its intention to team up with Danish...
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Was it a simple coincidence that
when Columbus returned from the New World, the first epidemic of...
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Geneva - There is no sure-fire way to predict an impending earthquake, David Alexander, a United...
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The battle against pollution has been one of the biggest concerns over the past two decades. And...
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Researchers have just announced on Tuesday that a few simple steps may help doctors and nurses from...
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Researchers reported on Monday that a revolutionary vaccine against
malaria protected up to 65...
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A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Researchers proposed a new solution for people suffering
from chronic migraines: a magnetic device...
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Mars, the giant chocolate maker, is planning on solving
humanity’s cocoa crisis (yes, there is...
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In its thirteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space
Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, today...
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A team of German scientists has devised a new drug to fight
the most common form of dementia -...
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Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery of
where seasonal flu viruses originate and...
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Scientific world has lost Joshua Lederberg, University
Professor and president emeritus of the...
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Hong Kong went into alert this week when a dead magpie found in an urban area of the region tested...
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Geneva - There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created...
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Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's influenza epidemic of the new virus A(H1N1) has...
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Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's epidemic of a hitherto-unknown strain of flu...
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Mexico City - The number of deaths in Mexico known to have been caused by the outbreak of a...
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Manama, Bahrain - Bahraini health officials reported the Gulf island's first suspected case...
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Vilnius - Lithuania's health authorities were awaiting the results of tests Thursday in what could...
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As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Mexico City - The government of Mexico City banned eating in restaurants and ordered gyms, clubs,...
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Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 152, Mexican Health Minister Jose...
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China is investigating several suspicious cases involving influenza-like symptoms but has not...
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Mexico City - Mexico on Monday closed schools and universities until May 6 and limited commercial...
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New York - The United Nations has taken steps to lead the fight against the sudden outbreak...
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Geneva - The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies said it was...
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Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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L'Aquila, Italy - The bodies of four students located Tuesday under rubble brought to 211 the death...
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Rome - By midday Tuesday the death toll from an earthquake that struck central Italy early the...
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Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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The Gates Foundation together with the governments of Germany and the United Kingdom and other...
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On Wednesday, tycoon Bill Gates announced that his foundation, along with the charity group...
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The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that a 19-year-old teenager girl from Beijing died of...
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A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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The infant, who normally lives in Shenzhen in southern China, was diagnosed with the H9N2 strain of...
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Hong Kong - Customs officials were on Friday stepping up the number of random checks on vehicles...
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Two studies appearing this week in the New England Journal of Medicine note that an experimental...
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Vienna - The Roman Catholic charity network Caritas called on pharmaceutical companies Monday to...
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New Delhi - Authorities in India's north-eastern Assam state culled 40,000 poultry of some 60,000...
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Just days before the World AIDS Day on December 1st, the World Health Organization released a study...
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Taipei - China's decision to allow Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan to attend the APEC...
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Islamabad - The official death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit south-western Pakistan...
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An infection that has killed 3 people in South
Africa worries the World Health
Organization,...
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