Comments: 0 - Date: October 22nd, 2009 - Categories: Health
Berlin - The practice of decorating the human body known as body modification is booming in Germany right now. Placing hollow tubes called flesh tunnels in ear lobes or deliberately cutting scars into the skin is a growing practice in some sections o...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 22nd, 2009 - Categories: Health
Mexico City - Six months ago Mexico's health minister made an announcement on late night television that shocked and puzzled. We are in the presence of a new influenza virus, said Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, ann...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 21st, 2009 - Categories: Health
Geneva/Washington - Some 20 per cent of children born each year, mostly in the poorest parts of the globe, remain without life- saving inoculations, a new international study released Wednesday showed. Still, a record 106 million infants were immuniz...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 21st, 2009 - Categories: Health
Brussels - EU governments have agreed to make babies' duvets, cot mattresses and sleeping bags safer after a report suggesting that such products may cause thousands of injuries each year, officials in Brussels said Wednesday. The need for new safety...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 21st, 2009 - Categories: Health
Stockholm - Main European countries were Wednesday said to be lagging far behind the United States in funding efforts to develop new tests and treatment of tuberculosis. The disease is estimated to claim 1.7 million lives each year, the medical hum...