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PARIS (AFP) - Octogenarians who walk an hour or more each day are less likely to die and or be prone to serious illness compared with less active counterparts, according to a study published on Wednesday.Published: 09/17/2008 at 00:20:34 GMT |
PARIS (AFP) - Women who eat right, exercise and never smoke tobacco more than halve the risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, a long-term study released Wednesday said.Published: 09/16/2008 at 23:17:14 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Food and Drug Administration Tuesday said it would block the import of more than 30 generic drugs made by Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy, saying the company had failed to meet manufacturing standards.Published: 09/16/2008 at 22:52:09 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), widely used in plastic food and beverage containers, has been linked to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and liver abnormalities, according to a study released Tuesday.Published: 09/16/2008 at 17:31:19 GMT |
THE HAGUE (AFP) - The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a landmark appeal court ruling that made it legal for a patient with multiple sclerosis to grow cannabis for therapeutic use.Published: 09/16/2008 at 15:35:19 GMT |
GENEVA (AFP) - Polio vaccinations for over a million Afghan children have been cancelled, the World Health Organization said Tuesday after two doctors were killed in a Taliban suicide attack.Published: 09/16/2008 at 11:31:09 GMT |
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Superstar couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated two million dollars to help children affected by AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, announced the nonprofit group Global Health Committee (GHC) announced Monday.Published: 09/15/2008 at 22:42:45 GMT |
PRAGUE (AFP) - The chemical street drug methamphetamine, or "meth", is becoming more popular than cocaine or heroin in many countries, experts at a conference in Prague said Monday.Published: 09/15/2008 at 21:13:16 GMT |
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists on Sunday said intelligible speech is learnt in part through nerve signals from the vocal tract, a discovery that could open up an ambitious avenue of therapy for the deaf.Published: 09/14/2008 at 22:24:26 GMT |
PARIS (AFP) - Scientists have figured out how tuberculosis tricks the immune system, a discovery that could lead to new anti-TB drugs, according to a study published Sunday.Published: 09/14/2008 at 21:43:40 GMT |
