Half of Zimbabwe's population needs food aid, UN says
New York - Half of Zimbabwe's 12 million people would require food assistance and some households have already cut back on the number of meals a day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. Ban said in a statement that the news from Zimbabwe w...
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Zimbabwe's parties back in talks as cholera toll hits 313 - Summary
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's political rivals met in South Africa on Tuesday to try to resolve their months-long standoff over the formation of a unity government as the death toll in the cholera outbreak aggravated by the country's economic collapse hi...
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Chissano: Don't let financial crisis affect African child health
Nairobi - Western governments should not use the global financial crisis as a reason to cut aid to Africa and thus reduce the chances of lowering the continent's appalling child mortality rate, former president of Mozambique and UN Childrens' Fund (U...
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UN: Number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe continue to rise
Geneva - The number of dead from cholera in Zimbabwe continued to rise, the United Nations said Tuesday, and so far 313 deaths have been reported in the latest outbreak of the disease. We are very concerned by the deteriorating health situation in Z...
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Smokers in Greece face high pulmonary disease rates
Athens - Greeks, known as being among Europe's heaviest smokers, suffer high rates of pulmonary disease, with non-smokers also facing health risks, statistics published Tuesday showed. According Constantinos Gourgoulianis, the head of Greece's Pneumo...
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Myanmar faces 24,000 AIDS deaths for lack of antiretroviral drugs
Bangkok - An estimated 24,000 people will die of HIV/AIDS in Myanmar next year unless the international donor community is willing to provide funds for antiretroviral drugs (ART), a medical group warned Tuesday. Myanmar has about 240,000 people with...
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Health agency approves giving vaccine against cervical cancer virus
Stockholm - A Swedish health agency Monday approved a general vaccination programme for young girls against the human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer. As of 2010, all girls born 1999 and later are to be offered a vaccine against the HPV...
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Study: Heart attack risk rises with daylight-saving changes
Stockholm - The risk of suffering a heart attack increases with the annual adjustment of clocks to daylight saving time, according to a Swedish study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet ...
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Stem cells could save babies with heart defects, experts predict
Hamburg - Babies with congenital heart defects could benefit from stem cell technology to create healthy new cardiac valves, according to a team of German scientists. The Munich-based researchers say they have grown cells from umbilical cord blood wh...
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Nutrition varies according to gender
Hamburg - Women typically have less muscle mass and more body fat than men and should therefore eat different types of food, a German nutrition expert said recently in Hamburg at an event organized by the German society for nutrition. Professor Guent...
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