Health
Saturday 17 May 2008
- Illegal sexual enhancement pills claim lives of two more men
Friday 16 May 2008
- Foreign-run Cambodian school expels girl, 7, for being HIV positive
- China reports 43rd child death from HFMD
- Official warns of plague risk in quake-razed Chinese towns
Thursday 15 May 2008
- Obesity problem persists for many European countries
- Childhood obesity tails off in France and Switzerland
- D'oh! Doughnuts really are bad for you, Hong Kong study finds
- Myanmar man jailed for lying about sex prior to blood donation
Wednesday 14 May 2008
- Research: Women sex offenders have high levels of mental illness
- Austrian government agrees on health care reform
- China hand, foot, mouth toll hits 42; Beijing sees 1st death (Roundup)
- Five patients treated for mystery respiratory disease in Hong Kong
- Beijing reports China's 40th child death from HFMD
Tuesday 13 May 2008
- US group questions human embryo research, calls for rules
- All poultry culled in Seoul to curb spread of bird flu
Monday 12 May 2008
- European Commission to launch immunisation aid in Nigeria's north
- HFMD kills five more Chinese children, death toll hits 39
- Zambia aims to have 12,000 children on AIDS drugs by year end
- Cocoa, but not tea may help lower blood pressure, German experts say
- Angioplasty after heart attack boosts survival chances
- Prozac may benefit patients with multiple sclerosis
- Alzheimer's cure still years off, despite German breakthrough
- Beware of "miracle healers" on the web
- Avoid lotions for treating dried out noses
Sunday 11 May 2008
- Philippines raises alarm over dengue fever, 108 dead so far
Saturday 10 May 2008
- Asia-Pacific health officials finalize plan to combat dengue
Friday 09 May 2008
- HFMD kills two more Chinese children; hundreds of new cases (Roundup)
- Hand, foot and mouth toll rises to 34 in China
Thursday 08 May 2008
- Thalidomide maker doubles payout to German victims of drug
- New Zealand warns against Chinese herbal tea
- Two-thirds of Indonesia's districts in malaria endemic area
Wednesday 07 May 2008
- HIV-infected man charged with failing to tell teen partner
- Activists challenge patent on African anti-bronchitis drug
- Child virus death toll hits 28; WHO backs China's controls
- Over 20 dead for lack of medical attention in Mozambique prison
- Hand-foot-mouth disease kills 10 children in Vietnam
- More preschools, day cares temporarily closing amid EV-71 virus
Tuesday 06 May 2008
- Suspected child virus cases continue to rise in China
- HIV infections on the rise in Germany
- Asia-Pacific experts drawing up dengue fever battle plan (Roundup)
- Asia-Pacific experts drawing up dengue-fever battle plan
Monday 05 May 2008
- German health authorities say sugar okay for diabetics
- Tests find killer MRSA bug common in German piggeries
- Massage for little ones: Osteopathy is a trend in children's medicine
- Let children with neurodermatitis be kids
- China's suspected child virus cases rise to 9,700; 26 deaths
- Hospitals in Hong Kong lose data on 3,000 patients in thefts
- Hong Kong "very concerned" at deadly China virus outbreak (Roundup)
- Hong Kong parents warned to beware of deadly China stomach virus
Sunday 04 May 2008
- South-east Asia's first ABO kidney transplant set for May
Friday 02 May 2008
- Convention on disability rights in effect on Saturday
- US Congress makes genetic discrimination illegal
- South Korea to donate to North Korea's anti-malaria programme
- China expects further deaths from EV-71 virus
- Toll in hand, foot and mouth outbreak in Chinese city rises to 21
Wednesday 30 April 2008
- Austrian government agrees on smoking bans by 2009
- Hand, foot and mouth infections rise to 1,884 in Chinese city
- Bird flu kills Indonesian boy, death toll now 108
Tuesday 29 April 2008
- Richest nations urged to help stem the food crisis (Roundup)
- 1,500 children ill, 20 dead from virus in eastern China (Roundup)
