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Rescue workers reach China quake’s epicenter

China's Ministry of Health issued an appeal for blood donations to help the victims of the quake. Fifteen missing British tourists were believed in that area at the time of the quake and were "out of reach," Xinhua reported.

5 more children die in China from virus

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in Shanghai on Monday the U.S. would be willing to help China with the disease. Hand, foot and mouth spreads through contact with saliva, feces, fluid secreted from blisters or mucus from the nose ...

Tests show no disease on quarantined train

An assessment of all passengers on a VIA Rail train from Vancouver to Toronto has been completed and results confirm that there was no outbreak of infectious disease,” Ontario’s Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Cigarette machine sports wrinkle-recognition

Underage smoking has been on a decline in Japan, but a health ministry survey in 2004 showed 13 percent of boys and 4 percent of girls in the third year of high school — those aged 17 to 18 — smoked every day.

Painkillers don't slow dementia, study says

These were not the results we were hoping for,'' said co-author Barbara Martin of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "We designed this study hoping we would see a protective effect of these drugs.