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• Mystery S. Africa disease may be rodent borne
JOHANNESBURG - A disease that has killed three people in South Africa and forced others into isolation wards may be rodent borne, a health official said Sunday, SAPA news agency reported. All three have died from external and internal bleeding. The ...
• Google founder visits Russian cosmodrome
Garriott, who paid $35 million for his ticket to space, waved and joked as he talked with Brin and others during a private meeting from behind a glass quarantine panel designed to protect his health ahead of the blast off. "I feel great. Thank you ...
• In-hospital errors kill thousands in U.S., but go unreported in New ...
This is a public health safety issue and the state should track them," said Lori Nerbonne, a nurse from Sanbornton who has helped form a new organization, N.H. Patient Voices, intent on improving health-care quality and making more information public ...
• The overweight debate: Healthy and heavy?
When the merely overweight folks are separated out, the health risks drop and sometimes even disappear. "Being overweight may not be associated with any risk of heart disease," says Robert Eckel, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of ...
• Financial crisis may worsen mental health woes
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA - The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. Hundreds of ...