Archive for ‘health’
Shortages Plague Mexican Flood Victims
November 6th, 2007
At least 20,000 people in southern Mexico remained trapped Monday on the rooftops of homes as hungry and dehydrated victims scrambled for government packages of food and medicine.
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Fighting blindness in Burkina Faso
November 5th, 2007
Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world with about half the population living below the poverty line. Children are particularly hard hit by economic hardship. Malnutrition causes serious health problems, including troubled vision and even blindness.
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Scientists Decode Most of Mo. Cat’s DNA
November 1st, 2007
An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases. The report adds cats to the roughly two dozen mammals whose DNA has been unraveled, a list that includes dogs, chimps, rats, mice, cows and of …
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Zimbabwe AIDS prevalence rate falls further
November 1st, 2007
Zimbabwe’s HIV prevalence rate has continued falling and now stands at less than 16 percent from more than 18 percent last year, government figures in the southern African country showed on Thursday.
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Reuters Science News Summary
November 1st, 2007
Following is a summary of science news briefs compiled from stories that have run separately and are available in full on the file.
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Cancer surge overwhelms AIDS-struck Botswana
November 1st, 2007
Doctors in Botswana are already battling one of the world’s highest levels of HIV infection and now they also face a dramatic rise in cancer cases as a result of the epidemic. The disease is putting extra pressure on the country’s overstretched health system.
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Unhealthy lifestyles blamed for rising rates of breast cancer among urban Chinese women
October 30th, 2007
An increasing taste for Western-style junk food and unhealthy lifestyles have caused the rate of breast cancer among urban Chinese women to jump sharply over the past decade, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.
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Skin cancer: What is it, what to look for?
October 29th, 2007
Skin cancer, one of the most common cancers among Caucasians, is becoming a problem in Asia as sunbathing and tanning salons take off.
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Chinese province sees high rates of birth defects in coal mining areas
October 29th, 2007
Coal mining regions of northern China are reporting soaring levels of defects in newborn babies as an apparent result of heavy pollution, state media said Monday, citing a local population planning official.
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Ugandan Lake Eating Workers Alive
October 28th, 2007
Uganda’s poor are braving salty, flesh-scarring water to make a meager living mining salt at Lake Katwe. Experts say chemicals in the lake are clearly unhealthy but the Ugandan government is not studying the risks.
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White House slashed CDC Senate testimony on climate change health impacts
October 24th, 2007
The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.
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