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NIAMEY (AFP) - French aid group Medecins sans Frontieres announced Wednesday it was withdrawing from Niger, more than three months after authorities in the poverty-stricken west African state suspended its activities.Published: 10/29/2008 at 18:32:46 GMT |
WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's Senate rejected a request by conservative President Lech Kaczynski for a referendum on public health service reform in a vote early Wednesday.Published: 10/29/2008 at 12:10:34 GMT |
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia will fix a minimum price of 6.00 ringgit (1.70 dollars) for a pack of 20 cigarettes to discourage smoking, a senior health ministry official said Wednesday.Published: 10/29/2008 at 10:57:05 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nearly 15 percent of female US veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan experienced sexual trauma during their military service, the Department of Veterans Affairs said in a study.Published: 10/29/2008 at 01:26:22 GMT |
GENEVA (AFP) - Immunisation programmes against meningitis and hepatitis in the world's poorest countries will have averted 3.4 million deaths by the end of the year, the public-private GAVI alliance said Wednesday.Published: 10/28/2008 at 23:08:47 GMT |
BLANTYRE (AFP) - Impoverished Malawi, where one out of every four children dies before their fifth birthday, launched a campaign Tuesday to immunise two million children against measles, health officials said.Published: 10/28/2008 at 16:26:43 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The annual cost of treating adult cases of diabetes in the United States nearly doubled between 2001 and 2007, according to a study published Monday that questioned the efficacy of new, more expensive drugs.Published: 10/28/2008 at 16:13:42 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - In a country where 45 million people have no health insurance, Barack Obama and John McCain have drawn swords over the best cure, but whoever wins will find reforms hard to enact, experts say.Published: 10/28/2008 at 05:56:47 GMT |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Researchers have developed a new class of inhibitors that neutralize toxic bacteria produced by E. Coli, the cause of most food poisoning outbreaks, according to a new study.Published: 10/28/2008 at 02:44:36 GMT |
GENEVA (AFP) - The number of deaths arising from HIV and AIDS is expected to peak in the next five years, the World Health Organization said Monday, as it sharply cut an earlier mortality forecast.Published: 10/27/2008 at 16:36:26 GMT |
