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China Reports Another Bird Flu-Related Death
China's top health official has ordered stronger measures in order to prevent the spread of bird...
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Another H5N1 Alert in China!
China has been dealing this year with a growing epidemic of the highly contagious and potentially...
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Overdose Deaths on the Rise in West Virginia, Report
Deaths from overdose of prescription drugs seem to be increasing in the United States, especially...
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China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic Continues To Be A Problem
There are currently an estimated 700,000 people living with HIV in China, including 85,000 AIDS...
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Medicare Plans Cost a Lot, Offer Little, Study Says
According to studies published on Monday, private health
insurance plans, which server roughly a...
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New Cervical Cancer Test for Rural Areas Proves Efficient
A new cervical cancer test, called careHPV,
by Qiagen was 90 percent accurate in detecting...
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New HPV Test Designed To Be Used In Rural Areas Proves 90% Accurate
A new human papillomavirus (HPV) test, Qiagen’s
low-cost test CareHPV, designed to be used in...
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CDC Survey Shows US Obesity Rates Are on the Rise
Since mid-1970s, the prevalence of overweight and obesity
has increased sharply for the US
and...
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Yellow Fever Outbreaks In Paraguay, 7 Deaths Confirmed
Paraguay is facing the first
yellow fever outbreak after more than three decades, since 1974, and...
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Dread of Yellow Fever in Brazil
Several deaths caused by yellow fever have prompted millions of Brazilians to line up at hospitals...
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Fewer Professionals Lead to Higher Depression Rate
Fewer mental health professionals in Indiana than in other states led the city to be ranked among...
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City Women More Likely to Develop Breast Cancer
Women living or working in urban areas are more predisposed to developing breast cancer than women...
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US Painkillers Demand Higher Than Ever
The amount of painkillers sold at retail establishments is
an alarm highlighting either that...
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Technology
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Verizon Says 4G Wireless Will Cover Rural America As Well
Verizon Wireless, the company which owns and operates the largest wireless telecommunications...
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Google Latitude Tracks You Down
Wednesday, Google Incorporated released its location-tracking service called Latitude,...
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Verizon Launches Network Extender to Boost Home Cell Phone Calls
Verizon has come up with a brand new device that will enable you to have increased cell phone...
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IBM Will Develop Power-Line Broadband
A new project was given to International Business Machines Corp. to develop high-speed Internet...
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IBM Will Develop Broadband across Power Grid
Big Blue says it has been hired to develop, in cooperation
with rural electricity companies, a...
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TV anywhere, laptop style: USB sticks as DVB-T antennas
DVB-T - digital television received using an antenna - is available in a growing number of cities...
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Google Thinks It’s High Time The FCC Acted on Vacant Channels
Google co-founder Larry Page, who spoke at a Capitol Hill event Wednesday, wants the Federal...
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Verizon Buys Alltel for $28 Million
Verizon, the second largest wireless operator in the United States, has announced it will purchase...
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FCC Caps Universal Service Fund At March 2008 Level
The Federal Communications Commission
announced its decision to limit payment to wireless...
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Big Step For Vietnam As It Sends Its First Satellite Into Space
Vietnam took a monumental step
into space by launching its first telecommunications satellite on...
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Google Finally Talks About 700MHz Auction
Companies are finally allowed by auction rules to talk about the recently leased 700MHz...
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FCC Announced The Big Winners – Verizon And AT&T Top Of The List
Two months after the auction
began and almost $20 billion later, The Federal Communications...
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China Has 200 Million Netizens
According to a report released by the China Internet Network
Information Centre, the number...
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Microsoft to Renew Its Internet-through-TV Proposal
Microsoft will try to be more convincing this time with a new proposal to use the spare TV airwaves...
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World
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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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Pakistani militants turn children into living bombs
Tank, Pakistan - Haneef Mehsud was a normal teenager who spend most of his time...
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Turkish colonel held over suspected executions of PKK sympathizers
Ankara - A serving colonel in Turkey's military police was on Monday taken into custody on...
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Pope tells oil-rich Angola to tend to its poor
Luanda/Yaounde - Arriving in Angola on the second leg of his Africa trip, Pope Benedict XVI Friday...
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Modern Marrakesh Offers Tantalizing Glimpses Of Oriental Magic
Marrakesh - Marrakesh in Morocco is not only one of the most exhilarating cities in Africa -...
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Banda wins Zambia presidential poll - opposition cries foul
Lusaka - Acting president Rupiah Banda was announced the winner of Zambia's presidential...
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Voter Registration for Afghan Presidential Poll Begins
Parwan Province, Afghanistan - The Afghan government began voter registration Monday ahead of a...
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Mugabe, Tsvangirai talks on power-sharing still deadlocked
Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and pro- democracy leader Morgan Tsvangirai failed to...
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Alternative Nobel Prize to Peace Work, Social Justice
Stockholm - Winners from Germany, India, Somalia and the United States were cited Wednesday for...
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Egyptians Blame Government for Rockslide Tragedy
Cairo - As rescuers teams continue to remove huge rocks that toppled from a hillside and flattened...
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Death toll in religious riots in India rises to 11
New Delhi - Police found three more bodies Wednesday of people killed in clashes between Hindus and...
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EU to Impose Further Sanctions on Zimbabwe
The European Union will most likely threaten those responsible for the political chaos in Zimbabwe...
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Storm System, Tornadoes Strike Nebraska
A powerful storm which brought with it hail and maybe tornadoes hit the state of Nebraska Thursday...
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Poll: 81% of Americans Believe the Country on “Wrong Track”
As the CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday concluded, more than 80 percent of Americans...
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Australian PM Visits East Timor's President in the Hospital
After a short visit to East Timor this morning, Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd paid a...
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Southern California Devastated By Wildfires
Around a million people have already been displaced by the disastrous fires in Southern California,...
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South Asia Floods Become “Unprecedented Challenge” for Authorities
The monsoon season struck hard South Asia this year, bringing ceaseless rain, massive floods,...
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Floods Claim Another Life in Britain, More Rainfall Expected
Britain
is affected by the worst flooding in the past six decades, another fatality
being...
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UN: Half of the World’s Population Urbanized by 2008
The UN Population Fund predicted 3.3 billion of the planet’s residents, that is half the...
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