AFP – Every 30 seconds a baby is born with physical defects in China, partly due to the country's deteriorating environment, state media said, citing a senior family planning official.
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BEIJING (AP) — A 21-year-old woman in central China has been sickened with the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s eight reported case of the disease this year, the Health Ministry said….
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AP – A 21-year-old woman in central China has been sickened with the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s eight reported case of the disease this year, the Health Ministry said.
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AP – Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America’s battle over abortion.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America’s battle over abortion….
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HealthDay – Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
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AP – As federal officials launch a criminal investigation into a Georgia peanut processor at the center of a deadly salmonella outbreak, food safety experts say they hope it’s a signal that the government plans to be more aggressive in prosecuting other cases in the future.
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AP – The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.
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HealthDay – SATURDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — The best way to treat a rare form of childhood brain cancer called ependymoma is aggressive surgery followed by targeted radiotherapy, U.S. researchers say.
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ATLANTA (AP) — As federal officials launch a criminal investigation into a Georgia peanut processor at the center of a deadly salmonella outbreak, food safety experts say they hope it’s a signal that the government plans to be more aggressive in prosecuting other cases in the future….
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HealthDay – SATURDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) — Older people often focus their wintertime worries on fears of slipping on the ice, but they ought to be equally concerned about the risks of being too cold, advises the U.S. National Institute on Aging.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said….
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AFP – Hundreds of millions of mosquito nets and anti-malaria kits are to be distributed by 2010, officials behind a campaign to halt about one million malaria deaths a year said Saturday.
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Reuters – China's Ministry of Health has ordered doctors around the country to stop prescribing a diabetes drug after a fake batch of the medicine was linked to the deaths of two patients.
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) – Teens who watch TV more than five hours a day are prone to become fast-food junkies as adults, a new study suggests.
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AFP – The US Justice Department and the government's food industry regulator on Friday lauched a criminal inquiry of a firm whose peanut butter products are at the heart of a salmonella scare that has made 500 people sick, an official told AFP.
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Reuters – The birth of octuplets in California, hailed as a medical triumph by doctors who delivered the tiny infants, has dismayed fertility experts who say high-number multiple births are an outcome they work hard to avoid.
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AP – How in the world does a woman with six children get a fertility doctor to help her have more — eight more? An ethical debate erupted Friday after it was learned that the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week had six children already.
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Children who are born more than three months premature have double the expected rate of autism at age two as full-term children, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics.
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Reuters – Economic stimulus legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress includes about $20 billion to accelerate adoption of health information technology including electronic prescribing of drugs.
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All antidepressant drugs are not created equal, according to a new analysis that looked at “new generation” depression medication.
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AP – The following recalls have been announced:
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Reuters – Minnesota has seen an increase in Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) cases in young children. According to US federal health officials, five cases of Hib disease in children younger than 5 years old were reported to the Minnesota Department of Health in 2008.
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
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Reuters – Residents of the self-proclaimed peanut capital of the world fear long-term fallout from a U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to a factory in their small town in southwestern Georgia.
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