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| China steps up battle against epidemics in quake zone: official BEIJING, May 17, 2008 (AFP) - The fight against contagious diseases is now a top priority after China's massive earthquake, with the rotting carcasses of millions of dead animals adding to the dangers, officials said Saturday. |
| 30 Thai medics head to cyclone-hit Myanmar: official BANGKOK, May 17, 2008 (AFP) - Thirty Thai medics flew to cyclone-hit Myanmar early Saturday, part of a group of 160 Asian medical workers that the junta is allowing to treat victims of the storm, officials said. |
| China steps up battle to prevent epidemics in quake zone: official BEIJING, May 17, 2008 (AFP) - China is rushing to secure safe drinking water for millions made homeless by a devastating earthquake in a bid to head off epidemics that could heighten the death toll, state media said Saturday. |
| Astronomers mystified by 'weird' star WASHINGTON, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Astronomers are puzzled by the discovery of a pulsar with an unusual orbit never before seen in similar fast-spinning neutron stars that beam regular pulses of radio waves. |
| UN study reveals Guinea Bissau's high child mortality rate BISSAU, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Almost one in four children die before the age of five in the west African state of Guinea-Bissau, mainly because of malaria, the UN children's body said on Friday. |
| More than 100 doctors to Myanmar on Saturday: EU official BANGKOK, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - More than 100 doctors from neighbouring countries will go into cyclone-hit Myanmar on Saturday, the EU's humanitarian aid chief Louis Michel told AFP after a two-day visit to the country. |
| Canada scraps plans for new reactors for making medical isotopes OTTAWA, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Canada announced Friday it is scrapping development of two new nuclear reactors that would have supplied radioactive materials, essential for medical tests, to most of the world. |
| Burkina Faso court convicts 15 women for female circumcision: prosecutor OUAGADOUGOU, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - A court in West Africa's Burkina Faso has convicted 15 women for carrying out female circumcisions on 14 infants aged between three and 16 months, a prosecutor said Friday. |
| Myanmar won't budge on foreign relief: EU envoy YANGON, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - The European Union aid chief said Friday that Myanmar's junta still would not budge on accepting foreign relief workers, two weeks after the cyclone tragedy that has left more than 71,000 dead or missing. |
| Child cyclone victims open to risks of disease, other abuse: UN GENEVA, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Children in cyclone-hit Myanmar who are sleeping on the streets without adult protection are at risk of not only diseases but also sexual abuse, a UNICEF spokeswoman warned Friday. |
| New SKorean law tightens rules on cloning SEOUL, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - South Korea's parliament on Friday passed a law to regulate research into cloning, following a scandal in which a now-disgraced expert claimed to have made the first human clone stem cells. |
| Cholera reported in Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas: WHO BANGKOK, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Health workers on Friday reported cases of the infectious and potentially deadly disease cholera in cyclone-hit areas of Myanmar, while 20 percent of children there have come down with diarrhoea. |
| China quake waves travelled round globe twice: Japan TOKYO, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - The devastating earthquake in southwest China was so powerful that its seismic waves travelled around the globe -- twice, a Japanese observatory said Friday. |
| Vitamin D deficiency linked to breast cancer in new study WASHINGTON, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Women deficient in vitamin D at the time of a breast cancer diagnosis are more likely to die or see the tumor spread, a Canadian study published in the United States has shown. |
| Dead bodies no threat to disaster victims: WHO MANILA, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - Contrary to popular belief, dead bodies left from natural disasters such as the China earthquake and Myanmar cyclone are not a source of disease or a health threat to survivors, the World Health Organisation said Friday. |
| Climbing just as easy as walking for some primates: study WASHINGTON, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Scientists have long thought that walking is easier than climbing for primates -- explaining why we humans ended up on our feet all the time. |
| South African military AIDS policy faces court challenge PRETORIA, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - The South African military's blanket exclusions of HIV positive members is not medically justified and ignores government policy, lawyers for service personnel union told a court Thursday. |
| Counselling team arrives in China quake zone: state media BEIJING, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - A team of 10 mental health workers arrived Thursday in China's quake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan to help people cope with the disaster, state media reported. |
| Hawking meets Mandela in quest for African science geniuses JOHANNESBURG, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Scientist Stephen Hawking hailed the peaceful end of South Africa's apartheid era as one of the great achievements of his lifetime Thursday as he met the first black president Nelson Mandela. |
| China battling to prevent epidemics in quake-zone: official BEIJING, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - China said Thursday that no major disease outbreaks had been reported in the earthquake zone but warned that a battle against epidemics was only just beginning as relief workers recovered bodies. |
| Want to lose weight? Study suggests a liquid lunch GENEVA, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - A "liquid lunch" could no longer mean a few pints down the pub, but instead a healthy way to lose weight, according to a study presented Thursday by scientists from food giant Unilever. |
| Greek doctors remove twin from nine-year-old girl LARISSA, Greece, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Surgeons have removed the foetus of an undeveloped twin from the stomach of a nine-year-old Greek girl, doctors said Thursday. |
| Childhood obesity levelling in France: studies GENEVA, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Childhood obesity may be levelling in France in contrast to the general trend in Europe where more youngsters are growing fat, according to two new studies presented Thursday. |
| Doctors watch helplessly as quake survivors bleed to death WUDU, China, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Li Rui always knew it would be tough to be a doctor. But never did he expect to watch his patients bleed to death in a chaotic makeshift hospital, with virtually no means to help them. |
| Peering through light polluted skies for a glimpse of the stars CHICAGO, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Glancing up at the night sky in Chicago gives amateur astronomy John Spack little cause for awe. |
| SKorea to build bird flu vaccine factory next year: ministry SEOUL, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - South Korea will build its own factory to produce human bird flu vaccine, health officials said Thursday as authorities battled the country's worst outbreak among poultry. |
| Disgraced expert seeks funding for pet cloning firm: scientist SEOUL, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - South Korea's disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk is seeking foreign investors for his new pet cloning business, a scientist close to him said Thursday. |
| Terminal Alzheimer's victim pleads for US research funds WASHINGTON, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Chuck Jackson has lived his entire life the same way four generations of his family have before him: with a death sentence from Alzheimer's disease hanging over his head. |
| Drug aprotinin boosts risk of death: study WASHINGTON, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Aprotinin, a drug often used to prevent blood loss during heart surgery, boosts the risk of death by 50 percent, a major clinical study done in Canada and published in the United States Wednesday found confirming preliminary data. |
| New study amplifies warning on climate change PARIS, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - A wide-scale study published Wednesday has strengthened warnings, spelt out last year by UN scientists, that climate change is already on the march. |
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