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WHO reports 1,658 confirmed cases of swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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WHO reports 1,516 confirmed cases of new flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,516 cases of the...
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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Swine flu spreads to 36 US states - 286 confirmed cases
Washington - The swine flu virus spread to 36 US states with a total of 286 confirmed cases,...
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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Mexican health officials raise swine-flu deaths to 19
Mexico City - Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova have raised the number of confirmed...
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WHO rejects criticism it acted too slowly on swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization Friday rejected criticism that it was too slow in reacting...
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US swine flu numbers rise to 109
Washington - US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total had risen to 109, up...
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European pharma industry holds flu talks in Brussels
Brussels - Representatives of the European pharmaceutical industry Wednesday discussed their...
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Germany Reports 1st Swine Flu Case
Authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday confirmed the country's first...
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WHO: No need for travel, pork import restrictions
Geneva - World Health Organization officials reiterated Tuesday that travel restrictions would not...
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Flu Death Toll in Mexico on the Rise
The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 103, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova...
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Swine Flu Spread Worries CDC Officials
Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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Tuberculosis Scare at Three Chicago-Area Hospitals
Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to...
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US Launches $45 Million AIDS Campaign Aimed at People Most at Risk
US officials on Tuesday launched an AIDS awareness campaign that would focus on the people most...
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Nearly 3,000 Urged to Get Tested for Hepatitis B in New Jersey
New Jersey officials are advising nearly 3,000 people to get blood tests after an outbreak of...
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China launches partnership to fight drug-resistant TB
Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates...
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Babson College Closes because Likely Norovirus Outbreak
Babson College closed its doors on Saturday because of a likely norovirus outbreak. More than 100...
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3000 Vets at Risk of HIV and Hepatitis after Unsterile Procedure
More than 3,000 patients undergoing certain routine medical procedures at Miami’s VA...
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Spanish woman first to bear twins after ovarian tissue transplant
Valencia, Spain - A 39-year-old Spanish former breast cancer patient will become the world's...
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DC HIV/AIDS Cases Rising at Alarming Rates
A report released this month by D.C. health officials, noted that at least 3 percent of...
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More Mentally Ill Adults Cared for in Nursing Homes
According to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid prepared for The Associated...
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3-year-old in Vietnam dies of bird flu
Hanoi - A 3-year-old Vietnamese boy has died of avian influenza after four...
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HIV - Among the Greatest Battles In The History of Humanity
A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature confirms the fact that the battle against the HIV...
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Scientists Develop HIV Strain that Infects Monkeys
Scientists succeeded in creating a strain of the human AIDS virus that can infect and multiply in...
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Ranbaxy Laboratories Falsified Data
The Food and Drug Administration says India's largest drugmaker has falsified test results for some...
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Epilepsy Drug Zonegran Tied to Metabolic Acidosis
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday cautioned that epilepsy drug zonisamide (Zonegran)...
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Texas Takes Over Peanut Butter Recall
On Friday, the Department of State Health Services from Texas announced that it is taking full...
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FDA: Three Deaths from PML Tied to Genentech Psoriasis Drug Raptiva
Three patients taking Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva are thought to have died of...
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It’s High Time Children Were Strongly Protected Against the Flu’s Massive Attack
It appears that the flu caused the death of the 10-year-old Long Island, New York child. Cynthia...
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US, Mexico, Canada urge countries to lift pork restrictions
Washington - The United States, Mexico and Canada on Thursday urged trading partners around the...
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US braces for worse from swine flu
Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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Schwarzenegger proclaims state of emergency; one possible flu death
Sacramento - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to...
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"Hero" policeman prevented more deaths at small-town nursing home
Washington - A man who went on a shooting rampage at a small-town nursing home in North Carolina...
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PCA Fills for Bankruptcy Protection
Peanut Corporation of America has already filed for bankruptcy protection and will soon begin to...
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More Severe Food Safety Standards after Peanut Butter Outbreak
The government has decided to ask for harsher conditions to be followed by the companies which...
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Central Oklahoma Hit by Severe Storm, More Tornadoes Expected
Several powerful storms hit central Oklahoma on Tuesday uprooting trees, demolishing homes and...
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Federal Panel: California Must Release 58,000 Inmates
Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state of California must reduce the number of inmates in...
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Senate: FDA Acted Very Late in Salmonella Outbreak
One of the main causes of the salmonella outbreak which lead to eight deaths across the United...
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US Army Faced With Record Suicide Rates
Having to face the stress of ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the long overseas tours...
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Head of the CDC to Step Down
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping down, according to an...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Director of Disease Control Centers, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Resigns
Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned. Dr....
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Flu Strain Resistant To Antiviral Treatment Found
Physicians have found a recently mutated strain of flu that resists the most commonly...
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Health Officials In Minnesota: Peanut Butter Might Have Started Salmonella Outbreak
Even if federal officials have yet to establish the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has...
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Salmonella Outbreak Made 388 People Sick
On Wednesday, United States health officials revealed that an outbreak of salmonella food...
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Blue Shield Agrees To Reimburse
Blue Shield has been involved in a controversy recently, regarding medical coverage in an already...
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Obama’s Health Care Reform May Not Work
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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First Face Transplant In The U.S.
Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have
performed the nation’s first partial face transplant. The...
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Man Arrested In Oregon Bank Bombing
Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the bombing incident that killed two...
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FDA Panel To Decide On The Safety Of Asthma Drugs
A Food and Drug Administration panel of medical
experts is weighing whether to allow certain...
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Hillary Clinton - from rival to Obama's top US diplomat
Washington - She was Barack Obama's chief challenger in the dramatic two-year neck-and-neck race...
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UB – Smoke Free
Smoking is severely frowned upon in the United States. Smoking in bars, restaurants, some hotel...
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Obama fills White House positions, still vetting Clinton
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled new members of future White House...
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Google Releases Its Newest Tool: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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FDA And Scientist Argue Over BPA Risk, Consumers Left In Confusion
Health officials are currently trying to establish whether bisphenol A (BPA) is a threat or a...
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West L.A. Still Ablaze, Freeway Opened
The angry flames of a wildfire burned grass and brush to a
crisp early on Thursday just a few...
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Obama plans sudden campaign break to visit ailing grandmother
Washington - Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has decided to drop campaigning for...
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Health Officials Urge People to Get Flu Shots
Given that
the flu season is nearing rapidly, United States health officials have...
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Update: U.S. Vaccine Use Increased In 2007
In June 2006, Merck’s drug Gardasil was approved by the FDA.
Gardasil is a drug designed to...
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Technology
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Could You Imagine Apple Without Steve Jobs?
The announcement made by Steve Jobs that he is leaving the company until June due to medical...
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Steve Jobs Explains Health Problems, Says He Has Hormone Imbalance
The Apple CEO, Steve Jobs issued a statement Monday assuring all those concerned that he's alive...
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Steve Jobs Giving Up On Macworld Fires Up Rumors About His Health
More than two decades have passed since the first Macworld Expo, and the future doesn’t seem...
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More States Cut to Low-Income Health Care Programs
More and more states are making hopeful attempts to salvage their budgets. The latest news...
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Bay Area To Become The First “Green Infrastructure” Center
We hear of green technology and sustainable transportation
every day, but we hardly see anything...
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Google Releases Its Newest Service: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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Update: Apple Refutes Report Of Steve Jobs Heart Attack
The health of the Apple boss, Steve Jobs, is again in the
spotlight after a report that he was...
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AOL Must Cut Its Losses and Therefore Drops Four Services
On Friday, AOL officials confirmed the company’s upcoming moves; as it turns out, important changes...
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Intel Rolls Out Its New System-On-A-Chip Technology
On Thursday, Intel addressed the embedded market with the first eight products of its...
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Obama's Tech Panel Includes Google CEO, Microsoft Executive
President Barack Obama has named a technology panel and on Monday unveiled is included. Among the...
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One in Four Tuberculosis Deaths Involves a Person Infected with HIV
Tuberculosis killed more people with HIV than ever in 2007, according to a new report released by...
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EPA Declares Greenhouse Gases Pollutants
The Environmental Protection Agency has acknowledged that the green house gases are a pollutant...
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Daiichi, Lilly Get European Approval for Prasugrel
Monday, Eli Lilly & Company and Daiichi Sankyo Company announced that they had earned...
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University of Pennsylvania on High Alert Over Meningitis Cases
University of Pennsylvania students are on high alert following three cases of meningococcal...
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Black History Month - A Studying Opportunity
All over the U.S., as well as in many other countries in the African Diaspora, February is...
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Nigeria Tainted Syrup Responsible for 84 Deaths
Nigerian officials have announced earlier this week that 84 children have died and 27 have...
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CDC Urges Vaccination against Hib
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged parents to have their children vaccinated...
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Mississippi Had the Highest Teen Birth Rate in 2006, CDC Says
New statistics released Wednesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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The Growth Rate in Health Care Spending in US Lower
The increase in health care spending in the US was the smallest since 1998 due to the growing use...
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Federal Ratings for Nursing Homes
According to a recent analysis of the government’s first ranking of nearly 16,000 nursing...
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Steve Jobs, Macworld And Health Rumors
More than two decades have passed since the first Macworld Expo, and the future doesn’t seem...
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First US Face Transplant Completed
Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have
performed the nation’s first partial face transplant. The...
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China Culls Chickens after Bird Flu Outbreak
More than 370,000 chickens have been culled
in China’s eastern Jiangsu province after
finding the...
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10 Puppy Mill Survivors Searching For A Home
The ten puppies seized at Los Angeles International Airport will be given up for adoption.Those...
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Are Popular Asthma Drugs Safe? FDA Panel to Decide on Their Safety
A Food and Drug Administration panel of medical
experts is weighing whether to allow certain...
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Update: The Efficacy Of Hong Kong’s Bird Flu Vaccine Questioned
This week’s bird flu outbreak is the first
incident of this type on a Hong Kong farm
since 2003,...
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New Bird Flu Outbreak Reported In Hong Kong
Commonly known as the “bird flu” or “avian flu,” avian influenza is a type of influenza caused by...
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FDA Allows Melamine In Infant Formula
Although the FDA recently said that melamine in any amount might threaten the health of infant...
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China Promises to Fight AIDS Discrimination
Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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Doctors Told to Be Alert for Childhood Infections during Hib Vaccine Shortage
On Thursday, U.S. health officials urged doctors
to be more vigilant for suspected cases of...
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Researchers Link TV Ads With Childhood Obesity
A new study found a connection between fast-food television advertisements and childhood...
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3,800 UTMB Workers to Lose Their Job
Some US
institutions have not been able to catch up with things after the Hurricane
Ike. One of...
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Google Flu Trends – A New Tool to Track Flu Outbreaks
Google wants to be more than a giant search engine; it wants to be closer to its users through its...
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British Girl Bravely Refused Heart Transplant
Hannah Jones was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 4 years old. Chemotherapy put her into...
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8 More Salmonella Cases Tied To Dry Pet Food
Eight more cases of people becoming infected with salmonella Schwarzengrund have been identified,...
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HIV Scare At The Normandy High School in St. Louis
Recently, the students at the Normandy High School in St. Louis have been confronting a situation...
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HIV Scare at a St. Louis High School
HIV testing is being given to students at a
suburban St. Louis
high school. The high school in...
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S. African Health Minister: “We Desperately Need an Effective HIV Vaccine”
South
Africa is the country experiencing one of
the most severe AIDS epidemics in the world....
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Use Bedroom Fans to Protect Your Baby from SIDS!
As long as you use a bedroom fan, your baby’s risk of SIDS
decreases considerably, according to a...
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People
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Nadya Suleman Rejects $1 Million Porn Flick Offer
Well, I bet you did not expect this.
Octomom Nadya Suleman has rejected $1 million, as...
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‘Fantasy Island’ Star Ricardo Montalban Dies At 88
Trekkies will always remember him as Khan in arguably the best “Star Trek” movie...
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Steve Jobs is Not Dying!
The Apple CEO, Steve Jobs issued a statement Monday assuring all those concerned that he's alive...
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston Devastated by Son Jett’s Mysterious Death
Authorities said that John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, passed away on Friday in the Bahamas...
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Dennis Quaid Reaches Settlement in Heparin Overdose Incident
Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly have reached a $750,000
settlement with Cedars-Sinai
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Damien Hirst's Pickled Animals Fetch $200 Million at Sotheby's
Damien Hirst's pickled animals and his other works fetched nearly $200 million at the Beautiful...
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Paul Newman Has Cancer, Friend Says
Paul Newman is alleged to have cancer in an advanced stage. An exclusive AP report claims that a...
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Naomi Campbell Leaves Hospital Supermodel-Style
Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who checked into a Brazilian hospital earlier this week, had a...
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On a Mission to Hospitalize Britney Spears
Britney Spears was hospitalized early Thursday morning for a psychiatric evaluation, after a...
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Stalker of Conan O’Brien in Hospital
The Roman Catholic priest who has been accused of stalking
and harassing the talk-show host Conan...
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Leaking George Clooney's Medical Records Leads to Suspension
Hospital employees that allegedly accessed information from George Clooney's medical records...
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Owen Wilson Requests Privacy
In a statement issued by his publicist for Reuters Owen
Wilson, the famous actor and comedian,...
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Injured “Valkyrie" Extras Contemplating Lawsuit
The extras injured last weekend during shooting for Tom Cruise’s new film...
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World
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Mexico's flu death toll rises to 44
Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's epidemic of a hitherto-unknown strain of flu...
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Mexico's flu death toll reaches 42
Mexico City - The number of deaths in Mexico known to have been caused by the outbreak of a...
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Japan triples medical staff at airports to check for flu
Tokyo - Japanese airports increased the number of quarantine officials Tuesday as...
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Swine flu cases rise to over 50 in EU
Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50...
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Swine flu jumps from human to human in Germany
Munich - The new type of swine flu has jumped from one human to another within Germany for...
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Dutch royal family the target of car attack
Amsterdam - The Dutch royal family was the real target of a car that ploughed into...
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New Zealand school isolates 31 swine flu suspects
Wellington - Twenty-seven students from a New Zealand college orchestra and four teachers are being...
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Bahrain registers first suspected case of swine flu
Manama, Bahrain - Bahraini health officials reported the Gulf island's first suspected case...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Mexico eateries close as industry feels flu pinch
Mexico City - Mexico's entertainment industry, one of the few sectors that continued to defy the...
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Mexico shuts schools nationwide as flu deaths reach 149
Mexico City - Mexico on Monday closed schools and universities until May 6 and limited commercial...
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Obama: Swine flu outbreak a cause for "concern," not alarm
Washington - President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the...
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Clinton seeks "meaningful" steps against climate change
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the...
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Schwarzenegger: California prepared for swine flu outbreak
Los Angeles - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that California was fully prepared to deal...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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EU calls emergency talks as Spain confirms swine flu case
Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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Italian earthquake toll at 211 after students found dead
L'Aquila, Italy - The bodies of four students located Tuesday under rubble brought to 211 the death...
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Italian earthquake death toll now at 207
Rome - By midday Tuesday the death toll from an earthquake that struck central Italy early the...
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Chinese Woman Died of Bird Flu
The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that a 19-year-old teenager girl from Beijing died of...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Spanish and British journalists released in Somalia
Mogadishu - A British reporter and a Spanish photographer were released Sunday after 40 days'...
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China tries former managers of milk-scandal company
Tian Wenhua, the former general manager of Sanlu, pleaded guilty to charges of...
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"Will Brussels Kill What Moscow Couldn't?", Poles Wonder
Gdansk - Tourists visiting Poland's Baltic coast often snap photos at the gates of Gdansk's...
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Hong Kong steps up border checks to halt bird flu outbreak
Hong Kong - Customs officials were on Friday stepping up the number of random checks on vehicles...
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China Promises To Fight AIDS Discrimination
Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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Somali pirates live high life when not on high seas
Mogadishu - They drive flashy cars, throw extravagant parties in their massive houses, talk loudly...
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Underwater Quake Hits Indonesia's North Sulawesi
Jakarta - A powerful undersea eathquake in Indonesia's North Sulawesi led to the death of at least...
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Thailand Burns 8 Tons of Melamine-Tainted Products
Bangkok - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration on Monday burned 8 tons of food products tainted...
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Death Toll above 230 in Pakistan Earthquake
Islamabad - The official death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit south-western Pakistan...
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Golden Gate Bridge, Soon Suicide Free?
The Golden Gate Bridge,
besides being a wonderful piece of architecture and a real landmark for...
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