Comments: 0 - Date: October 21st, 2009 - Categories: Health
Belgrade - Serbian health officials reported the country's first death from swine flu after a 46-year old woman succumbed to the illness. The woman, suffering from respiratory problems, arrived in critical condition at a hospital in Kragujevac, centr...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 21st, 2009 - Categories: Health
Geneva - 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. The main reason for the lack of vaccines for those roughly 2...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 21st, 2009 - Categories: Health
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian state government has said it was considering a policy of not promoting civil servants who are smokers, as part of efforts to discourage the habit, a news report said Wednesday. The government of the north-eastern Kelantan s...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 20th, 2009 - Categories: Health
Washington - The nation's top immunization expert Tuesday warned physicians to treat suspected cases of swine flu immediately rather than waiting for the results of a common but unreliable rapid test. Dr Anne Schuchat, director of the National Cent...
Comments: 0 - Date: October 20th, 2009 - Categories: Health
Washington - The nation's top immunization expert Tuesday warned physicians to treat suspected cases of swine flu immediately rather than waiting for the results of a common but unreliable rapid test. Dr Anne Schuchat, director of the National Cent...