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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:47:00 GMT

In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a screening of the environmental documentary 'Planet in Peril,' in New York. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Diane BondareffThe Canadian Press - WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:41:00 GMT

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, pictured here in December 2008, to be his surgeon general and serve as chief overseer of Americans' health, according to reports Tuesday.  Photo:Brad Barket/AFPAFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - President-elect Barack Obama wants CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta to be his surgeon general and serve as chief overseer of Americans' health, the network said Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:55:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - WASHINGTON - Ever watched a teen skulk in the corner of a toddler-packed pediatrician's waiting room, obviously wishing to be anywhere else?
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:27:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - HALIFAX, N.S. - Residents of nursing facilities in Nova Scotia suffered 30 incidents of physical, financial or emotional abuse by staff members over a one-year period, which an Opposition politician calls a "disturbing" signal that some caregivers are overworked and undertrained.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - Health Canada says it is in the process of strengthening safety information on the labels of the smoking-cessation product Champix.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:44:00 GMT

An overweight woman walks in Paris. The hormone leptin, combined with one of two US-approved drugs, may suppress appetite in overweight people, making it a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against obesity, according to a study published Tuesday.  Photo:/AFPAFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - The hormone leptin, combined with one of two US-approved drugs, may suppress appetite in overweight people, making it a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against obesity, according to a study published Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:02:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - TRENTON, N.J. - Drugmaker Merck & Co. has asked federal regulators to approve use in males for its vaccine against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical and other sexually transmitted cancers.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

An Indian health worker wrings the neck of a chicken during a culling operation at Potiram village in West Bengal district. Health authorities in India on Saturday confirmed a fresh outbreak of deadly bird flu after thousands of chickens died, officials said.  Photo:Diptendu Dutta/AFPAFP - KOLKATA, India (AFP) - Health authorities in India on Saturday confirmed a fresh outbreak of deadly bird flu after thousands of chickens died, officials said.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A male model walks the catwalk. Scientists say they have pinned down a DNA mechanism that gives rise to a rare but distressing form of baldness that strikes before adulthood.  Photo:/AFPAFP - PARIS (AFP) - Scientists say they have pinned down a DNA mechanism that gives rise to a rare but distressing form of baldness that strikes before adulthood.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A man stands at a bus stop in Manchester in 2006. As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying 'detox' products may do nothing to help them recover.  Photo:Paul Ellis/AFPAFP - LONDON (AFP) - As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" products may do nothing to help them recover.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

Palestinian women cry the death of relatives at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital while battles between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters continue in Gaza. People wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip are dying because ambulances cannot reach them, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday.  Photo:Mohammed Abed/AFP AFP - GENEVA (AFP) - People wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip are dying because ambulances cannot reach them, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A Zimbabwean mother and child rest in thier make shift home at the show grounds in Musina, December 2008. At least 1,732 people have died in Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic and the number of cases diagnosed has risen to 34,306, the World Health Organisation has said.  Photo:Alexander Joe/AFPAFP - GENEVA (AFP) - At least 1,732 people have died in Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic and the number of cases diagnosed has risen to 34,306, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A nurse comforts an Ebola patient at an isolation clinic in Kampungu, DR Congo. Angola has shut down its northeastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly virus.  Photo:Christopher Black/AFPAFP - LUANDA (AFP) - Angola has shut down its northeastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the state-run ANGOP news agency said on Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A Chinese trader sells ducks at a market in Changsha, Hunan province. Bird flu has re-emerged as a threat in Asia after China reported the disease killed a woman in Beijing and neighbouring Vietnam said a girl had contracted the virus.  Photo:Liu Jin/AFP AFP - BEIJING (AFP) - A woman in Beijing has died of suspected bird flu after handling parts of a dead duck, Chinese state media said Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A Chinese trader sells ducks at a market in Changsha, Hunan province. Bird flu has re-emerged as a threat in Asia after China reported the disease killed a woman in Beijing and neighbouring Vietnam said a girl had contracted the virus.  Photo:Liu Jin/AFP AFP - BEIJING (AFP) - Bird flu re-emerged as a threat in Asia on Tuesday after China reported the disease killed a woman in Beijing and neighbouring Vietnam said a girl had contracted the virus.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

A Malawian nurse consults at a public hospital in the central town of Kasungu in 2007. The death toll in Malawi's cholera outbreak has hit 13, more than doubling from last month, while 370 cases have been recorded, health officials said Tuesday.  Photo:/AFPAFP - BLANTYRE (AFP) - The death toll in Malawi's cholera outbreak has hit 13, more than doubling from last month, while 370 cases have been recorded, health officials said Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:10:00 GMT

A flooded children's playground in Hamburg, Illinois. Childhood trauma, including sexual abuse, emotional abuse and emotional neglect, was linked to a six-fold risk increase for chronic fatigue syndrome in adults, in a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry  Photo:Win Mcnamee/AFPAFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - Childhood trauma, including sexual abuse, emotional abuse and emotional neglect, was linked to a six-fold risk increase for chronic fatigue syndrome in adults, in a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:10:00 GMT

Spending a couple of hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers said  Photo:Paul J. Richards/AFPAFP - SYDNEY (AFP) - Spending a couple of hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers said Tuesday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:50:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Police are searching garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:00 GMT

Graphic fact file on dengue fever. Australian researchers funded by US billionaire Bill Gates Friday claimed a breakthrough which could help in the fight against dengue fever by stopping the often deadly disease in its tracks.  Photo:Martin Megino/Gal/Js/AFPAFP - SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian researchers funded by US billionaire Bill Gates Friday claimed a breakthrough which could help in the fight against dengue fever by stopping the often deadly disease in its tracks.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:00 GMT

A woman holds prescription contraceptives. The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.  Photo:Tim Matsui/AFPAFP - VATICAN CITY (AFP) - The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.


Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:12:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - BEIJING - A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital after contracting the disease last month, the government said Tuesday.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:36:00 GMT

Crystal Kramer with her daughter Lena in Toronto on Friday January 2, 2009. Kramer, 34, is all too aware that when it comes to breast cancer, being young is no advantage. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank GunnThe Canadian Press - TORONTO - Some are young mothers in their 30s, others 20-somethings starting their first jobs, and on rare occasions they are even teenage girls just finishing high school.


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:16:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - OTTAWA - The Harper government has not yet named the leader of a promised probe into the listeriosis outbreak that killed 20 people - a lag critics say discredits an already suspect process.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:14:00 GMT


              An Alzheimers patient at a psychiatric hospital. Alzheimer's disease affects not only the elderly, said a study Monday that found 14 percent of the estimated 500,000 Canadians suffering from dementia are under the age of 65.
              Photo:Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFPAFP - OTTAWA (AFP) - Alzheimer's disease affects not only the elderly, said a study Monday that found 14 percent of the estimated 500,000 Canadians suffering from dementia are under the age of 65.


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:47:00 GMT


              The tail of an Air India Boeing 777 in 2008. India's state-run carrier has dismissed 10 women flight attendants who were grounded last year for being overweight, a report said Monday.
              Photo:Noah Seelam/AFPAFP - NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's state-run carrier Air India has dismissed 10 women flight attendants who were grounded last year for being overweight, a report said Monday.


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:54:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - KINGSTON, Ont. - Union officials representing 8,000 hospital staff meet in Kingston today to call on the Ontario government to honour health care funding pledges.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:35:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - An illness making the rounds in a northern New Brunswick hospital has prompted officials to close the facility to most visitors.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:48:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - TORONTO - Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia are typically seen as afflicting the elderly, but new data suggest an increasing number of baby boomers are also being struck by the brain-destroying diseases.
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:14:00 GMT


              A Palestinian medic carries a wounded boy into a hospital in Gaza City as Israeli troops continue its ground assault in Gaza. Israel's military onslaught against Hamas has aggravated Gaza's humanitarian crisis, with electricity and communications cut and the population now facing dire food shortages, aid agencies said Sunday.
              Photo:Yasser Saymeh/AFP AFP - GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israel's military onslaught against Hamas has aggravated Gaza's humanitarian crisis, with electricity and communications cut and the population now facing dire food shortages, aid agencies said Sunday.


Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:43:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - TORONTO - One of the big worries about one day using stem cells to grow new organs and other tissues for curing disease is that these little regenerative powerhouses could give rise to tumours and end up doing more harm than good.
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:43:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - CHICAGO - This time, when the lanky young man stepped into the pool, his chest was tight. His muscles ached. He pushed off to take his first strokes, and grimaced at the pain.
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:08:00 GMT


              A man stands at a bus stop in Manchester in 2006. The government has launched a campaign to fight the nation's expanding waistlines with a cartoon by the Oscar-winning animators of Wallace and Gromit to hammer home the message.
              Photo:Paul Ellis/AFP AFP - LONDON (AFP) - The government launched a campaign to fight the nation's expanding waistlines on Friday with a cartoon by the Oscar-winning animators of Wallace and Gromit to hammer home the message.


Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:24:00 GMT


              At a makeshift workshop in Nakorn Prathom, west of Bangkok, a member of the Prostheses Foundation adjusts a prosthesis
              Photo:Paul Dailing/AFP AFP - NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (AFP) - Thousands of people have been given artificial limbs by the Prostheses Foundation, which uses unique techniques and some salvaged materials to provide cheaply-made prosthetics to Thais who have nowhere else to go.


Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:51:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - TORONTO - Five years after the avian influenza strain H5N1 started killing poultry and people in Southeast Asia, researchers still don't know what to make of the dangerous and unpredictable virus.
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:50:00 GMT

This undated handout file photo provided by the Agriculture Department shows an aedes aegypti mosquito on human skin. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/USDA, FileThe Canadian Press - WASHINGTON - Old mosquitoes usually spread disease, so Australian researchers figured out a way to make the pests die younger - naturally, not poisoned.


Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:32:00 GMT


              Tendani Baloyi, 4, lies in a cholera rehydration centre in Musina, on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border in 2008. More than 30,000 people in Zimbabwe have been diagnosed with cholera, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, as the number of those contracting the deadly disease continues to mount.
              Photo:Justine Gerardy/AFP AFP - GENEVA (AFP) - More than 30,000 people in Zimbabwe have been diagnosed with cholera, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, as the number of those contracting the deadly disease continues to mount.


Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:42:00 GMT


              Making self-improvement New Year's resolutions often leaves people feeling worse, the British mental health charity Mind has warned. Mind urged people not to make resolutions focusing on physical imperfections -- such as attempting to lose weight -- because they create a negative self image and lead to feelings of low self-esteem, hopelessness and even mild depression.
              Photo:Peter Parks/AFP AFP - LONDON (AFP) - Making self-improvement New Year's resolutions often leaves people feeling worse, the British mental health charity Mind has warned.


Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:33:00 GMT


              Somalis queue to receive food aid at a distribution centre in their embattled capital Mogadishu, October 2008. The United Nations has introduced a new ready-to-use food supplement which could significantly boost efforts to reduce child malnutrition in Somalia, said a statement received by AFP Thursday.
              Photo:Abdirashid Abdulle/AFP AFP - NAIROBI (AFP) - The United Nations has introduced a new ready-to-use food supplement which could significantly boost efforts to reduce child malnutrition in Somalia, said a statement received by AFP Thursday.


Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:15:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - TORONTO - A new study aims to put a price tag on the burden of insomnia in society, and estimates the total cost in the province of Quebec at $6.5 billion a year.
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:34:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - ATLANTA - A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations, according to a new study that is considered the best and longest-term research to show such a link.
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:10:00 GMT


              A newborn baby holds onto his mother's finger at a hospital in Beijing. Chinese police have released five parents of children sickened by melamine-tainted milk, a day after detaining them to prevent them holding a press conference, their lawyer has told AFP.
              Photo:Frederic J. Brown/AFP The Canadian Press - BEIJING - A former dairy boss in China's scandal over tainted milk blamed for the deaths of at least six babies and illnesses of nearly 300,000 others has pleaded guilty to charges that could lead to the death penalty, Chinese news media reported.


Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:28:00 GMT
AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - The preventative use of antibiotics on intensive care patients increases their chance of survival, a study led in the Netherlands and published Wednesday in the United States has found.
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:55:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - MONTREAL - Labopharm Inc. has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Ryzolt, the Montreal-area company's once-daily formulation of painkiller tramadol.
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:45:00 GMT
The Canadian Press - TORONTO - The manufacturer of a drug for the treatment of psoriasis has issued new safety information for doctors and patients.
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:54:00 GMT


              A Zimbabwean mother and child rest in thier make shift home at the show grounds in Musina on December 17. The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe's worsening cholera epidemic, it has said in a statement.
              Photo:Alexander Joe/AFP AFP - JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe's worsening cholera epidemic, it said in a statement Wednesday.


Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:24:00 GMT


              A newborn baby holds onto his mother's finger at a hospital in Beijing. Chinese police have released five parents of children sickened by melamine-tainted milk, a day after detaining them to prevent them holding a press conference, their lawyer has told AFP.
              Photo:Frederic J. Brown/AFP The Canadian Press - BEIJING - The former chairwoman of the dairy company at the heart of China's tainted milk scandal went on trial Wednesday on charges of selling fake or substandard products, Xinhua News Agency reported.


Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:27:00 GMT


              View of a street market in Hong Kong. A Hong Kong-born infant has contracted a mild form of bird flu, the fifth case of its type in the territory, health authorities said Tuesday.
              Photo:/AFPAFP - HONG KONG (AFP) - A Hong Kong-born infant has contracted a mild form of bird flu, the fifth case of its type in the territory, health authorities said Tuesday.


Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:08:00 GMT
AFP - LONDON (AFP) - Patients could soon rate their doctors by posting reviews on an official health service website, Health Minister Ben Bradshaw said in comments published Tuesday.
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