Three more swine flu deaths announced in Britain - Summary
London - A nine-year-old girl in London and a man and a young girl in northern England have died of swine flu, health officials said Monday. The deaths bring to seven the total number of people in Britain who have succumbed to the H1N1 virus, three o...
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World count of swine flu patients edges closer to 100,000
Geneva - The global tally of patients infected with swine flu has hit 94,512, with 429 deaths, World Health Organization statistics showed on Monday. Most of the infections were in the Americas, particularly the United States, though thousands of cas...
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EU health ministers discuss alcohol, swine flu and antibiotics
Stockholm - Measures to combat alcohol-related problems in the European Union and swine flu were on the agenda when Sweden Monday hosted its first informal ministerial meeting since taking over the EU helm last week. Swedish Crown Princess Victoria j...
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Ban: UN needs 1 billion dollars for swine flu
Geneva- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said ahead of a meeting with donors Monday that his organization would need 1 billion dollars to deal with the swine flu pandemic. We need to get more resources available, Ban told reporters in G...
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Sweden supports UN effort to stop violence against children
Stockholm - Sweden Monday said it supported efforts by the United Nations to prevent violence against children, and pledged 386,000 dollars to the office of Marta Santos Pais, the UN special representative specializing in the matter. It is key that ...
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WHO chief: Global economic crisis ruining diets, health
Geneva - The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said Monday that the global economic crisis was causing people to ditch healthy foods that this would lead to health problems. When money is tight, the first thing that drop out of t...
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New Zealand orders swine flu vaccine
Wellington - New Zealand has ordered a stock of untested and unapproved swine flu vaccine for health workers, police and other emergency staff but it is not likely to be used until December at the earliest, Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday...
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Land-locked Laos reports first H1N1 cases
Bangkok - Land-locked Laos has reported its first two cases of H1N1, two members of the national football team recently returned from the Philippines, Radio Laos said Monday. All 11 members of the team, plus one coach, have been hospitalized and are ...
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Night shift work can cause host of health problems
Hamburg - Night shift work is strenuous, but the potential health problems, such as obesity and cardiovascular disease, may be much bigger than previously thought, according to a recent study. The study conducted by Harvard University in Boston and p...
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Running improves bone density
Columbia, US - High impact sports such as running appear to improve bone mineral density more than such sports as cycling, swimming, or rowing, according to a study conducted by the University of Missouri. Only the skeletal sites that experience inc...
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