German cabinet kicks off overweight action plan
Berlin - The German cabinet initiated a plan of action Wednesday to combat mounting obesity in the general population, putting forward a series of voluntary measures for states, local authorities and business to consider. The concept programme, prepa...
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Spain to perform its first face transplant operation
Madrid - Spanish doctors are preparing to perform the country's first face transplant operation, one of the first in the world, media reported Wednesday. Doctor Pedro Cavadas said he had two young candidates for the operation, one of whom has been di...
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Vietnamese woman dies after breast implant surgery
Hanoi - A Vietnamese waitress has died after undergoing silicone breast implant surgery at an unlicensed clinic, officials said Wednesday. Dinh Thi Thu, 30, died late Monday after being treated for two days at the Rach Gia General Hospital in Kien Gi...
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European Patent Office hears dispute on human stem cells
Munich - A European Patent Office (EPO) tribunal in Munich heard a dispute Tuesday on whether a method of growing embryonal human stem cells can be patented, but gave no date for its decision on the controversial case. US scientist James Thomson, who...
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Alcohol and tobacco kill far more Germans than illegal drugs do
Wiesbaden - Alcohol, tobacco and the abuse of prescription medicines kill far more Germans yearly than illegal drugs do, federal statisticians said Tuesday in Wiesbaden. They put the year's death toll from diseases caused by legal drugs at 57,900 i...
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Australian grandma gives birth to near-identical triplets
Sydney - A 46-year-old Australian grandmother has given birth to naturally conceived identical triplets in what doctors said was a one-in-10-million case. The three 99.9-per-cent identical boys - Cooper (1,570 grams), Kyle (1,660 grams) and Jordan ...
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WHO warns polluted water may kill 1.6 million people - Summary
Singapore - The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing a global strategy towards preventing water-borne diseases, an official said on Monday. Polluted drinking water will kill around 1.6 million people this year unless governments make a conce...
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Indonesia, Germany agree to use debt funds to fight disease
Jakarta - Indonesia and Germany agreed on Monday to convert 50 million euros (77.5 million dollars) of the country's debt into a health programme to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the world's fourth-most-populous nation. Under the so-called ...
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Bird flu prompts cull in north-west Pakistan
Islamabad - Authorities have culled nearly 2,000 broiler chickens following confirmation of a fresh outbreak of avian influenza in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), media reports said Monday. The culling was carried out in the Swabi dis...
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Vietnamese student dies after selling kidney in China
Hanoi - A student has died at his home in central Vietnam after selling one of his kidneys in China to earn money to marry his girlfriend, officials said Monday. To Cong Luan, a 22-year-old student at the Industrial Technical College in Ho Chi Minh C...
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