Health News

Second twin stirs after successful separation in Australia
Sydney - The second of the Bangladeshi conjoined twins that Australian surgeons separated this week is being brought out of an induced coma. Trishna was the first to be woken and doctors at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital said Friday that her s...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Health ]

23 per cent of Taiwan city kids have considered suicide
Taipei - Twenty-three per cent of Taiwan's city children have considered suicide due to school pressure and family problems, a survey showed. The Child Welfare League Foundation surveyed 1,547 primary school pupils across Taiwan to find out the diffe...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Health ]

Police seize illicit medicines from web merchants - Summary
Wiesbaden, Germany/Washington - Police in 24 nations raided illegal internet pharmacies this week, intercepted parcels at mail depots and seized stocks of illicit medicines, German police and US officials said Thursday. The raids, which began Monday,...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Health ]

Police seize illicit medicines from web merchants in Interpol raids
Wiesbaden, Germany - Police in 24 nations raided illegal internet pharmacies this week, intercepted parcels at mail depots and seized stocks of illicit medicines, German police said Thursday. The raids, which began Monday were aimed at confiscating c...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Health ]

Child mortality drops in 20th year of rights convention
New York - Child mortality rates have dropped by 28 per cent since the Convention on the Rights of the Child took effect 20 years ago, the UN Children's Fund said Thursday. An estimated 8.8 million children under five died from various diseases in 20...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Health ]

One twin talking after successful separation in Australia
Sydney - One of the Bangladeshi conjoined twins Australian surgeons separated this week is talking and cuddling her stand-in mother while the other is wiggling her fingers and soon will be woken from her induced coma. Doctors at Melbourne's Royal Chi...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Health ]

Macedonia reports its first swine flu death
Skopje - Macedonia on Wednesday reported its first swine flu death - a 32-year-old man who died in Skopje hospital according to local media. The man was hospitalized earlier this week with a serious case of pneumonia. ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Health ]

Hungary declares influenza epidemic
Budapest - Influenza has officially reached the level of an epidemic, an official at Hungary's National Epidemiological Centre announced at a conference on Wednesday. More than 22,000 people reported flu symptoms over the past week, up 30 per cent fr...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Health ]

Lithuania reports first swine flu fatality
Vilnius - Health officials in Lithuania confirmed Wednesday that the country had recorded its first death linked to the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu. The victim was a 14-year-old boy from the Baltic state's second-largest city, Kauna...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Health ]

UN food summit to ends without much progress
Rome - A three-day United Nations food summit marked by the failure to secure substantial new funds to combat world hunger wrapped up in Rome on Wednesday. Summit host, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FA0), estimates that some 44 billion do...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-18 ] Category : [ Health ]

Defoe's new boots lift Spurs to cloud nine

Arab media: Deal for release of Gilad Shalit to be signed on Friday

Home draw against Zaragoza keeps Malaga bottom - Update

Polls put incumbent ahead in Romanian vote; fraud reported - Summary

Police block march by banned Hungarian group

Leaked documents reveal shortcomings of British role in Iraq war

Murray overcomes Del Potro to open with year-end win - Update

Leverkusen on top after draw in Munich; Bochum stun Hamburg - Summary

Nilmar goals continue Villarreal's revival

Brown's Labour party gains ground on Cameron's Conservatives

Iran's controversial former interior minister dies

Comeback on the cards for Schumacher?

US envoy visits Taiwan to give briefing on Obama's China trip

Deep ocean census finds jumbo Dumbo and oil-drilling worms

Murray overcomes Del Potro to open with year-end win

Bolt and Richards are World Athletes of the Year 2009

Totti returns with hat-trick for Roma - Update

New York man kills fellow commuter over seat on train

Leverkusen back on top after draw in Munich - Update

Two arrested in Northern Ireland car bomb attack