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Older men who have more sex will experience fewer ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:46:00 GMT

(AFP) - Older men who have more sex will experience fewer erection problems, Finnish researchers reported in the July issue of The American Journal of Medicine. Photo:/AFP

A nurse is seen in the corridor of a hospital. ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:03:00 GMT

(AFP) - A nurse is seen in the corridor of a hospital. The United States has the least popular healthcare system out of 10 developed countries that were surveyed by Harris Interactive, with a third of Americans saying it needs a complete overhaul. Photo:Pascal Pavani/AFP

A doctor treats an obese patient at a hospital ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:32:00 GMT

(AFP) - A doctor treats an obese patient at a hospital in Shanghai, in 2004. Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday. Photo:Liu Jin/AFP

A young French boy in a nutritional reeducation ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

(AFP) - A young French boy in a nutritional reeducation center in Bullion outside Paris, 2004. According to a European Commission proposal European schoolchildren could soon receive free fruit and vegetables as part of an EU effort to keep them from becoming overweight. Photo:Francois Guillot/AFP

Graphic charting the number of mosquito nets ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - Graphic charting the number of mosquito nets provided by UNICEF and the global production of anti-malarial drugs. The Group of Eight leaders have set a five-year deadline to provide 60 billion dollars to fight disease in Africa, but activists said the pledge meant little to the continent's poor. Photo:Martin Megino/AFP

Map showing the areas worst affected by tuberculosis. ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - Map showing the areas worst affected by tuberculosis. Photo:Jfs/AFP

A tuberculosis patient gazes from his hospital ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - A tuberculosis patient gazes from his hospital bed at the Church of Scotland hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa. The Group of Eight leaders have set a five-year deadline to provide 60 billion dollars to fight disease in Africa, but activists said the pledge meant little to the continent's poor. Photo:Rajesh Jantilal/AFP

A Mozambican infant infected with malaria rests ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Mozambican infant infected with malaria rests at the Manhica hospital in 2000. The Group of Eight leaders have set a five-year deadline to provide 60 billion dollars to fight disease in Africa, but activists said the pledge meant little to the continent's poor. Photo:Yoav Lemmer/AFP

A scientist examines E-Coli samples at a laboratory ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - A scientist examines E-Coli samples at a laboratory in 2000. The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control said a two-year-old girl has died after contracting the lethal enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria. Photo:Mychele Daniau/AFP

Schoolchildren make a fruit skewer during a healthy ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:19:00 GMT

(AFP) - Schoolchildren make a fruit skewer during a healthy food initiative in Berlin in April 2008. European schoolchildren could soon receive free fruit at school as part of an EU effort to keep them from becoming overweight, according to a European Commission proposal. Photo:Michael Gottschalk/AFP

A Kenyan man smokes in a designated smoking area ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Kenyan man smokes in a designated smoking area in Nairobi. A law banning smoking in public places and regulating tobacco products in Kenya has come into effect, spelling the end of a convoluted legal tussle between the government and tobacco firms. Photo:Tony Karumba/AFP

Kenyan office workers are seen smoking in a designated ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:12:00 GMT

(AFP) - Kenyan office workers are seen smoking in a designated smoking area in Nairobi's central business district, in May 2008. A law banning smoking in public places and regulating tobacco products in Kenya has come into effect, spelling the end of a convoluted legal tussle between the government and tobacco firms. Photo:Simon Maina/AFP

This photo taken in May 2008 shows a Kenyan man ...

(AFP) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:45:00 GMT

(AFP) - This photo taken in May 2008 shows a Kenyan man smoking at a designated smoking zone in Nairobi. A new law banning smoking in public places and regulating the sale of tobacco products in Kenya is due to take effect nationwide within hours, an official said Monday. Photo:Tony Karumba/AFP

Professor Terry Graham of the University of Guelph is shown ...

(The Canadian Press) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:59:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Professor Terry Graham of the University of Guelph is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ HO-University of Guelph

An obese man walks through Sydney. British and ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - An obese man walks through Sydney. British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature. Photo:Greg Wood/AFP

A father holds his infant son. Women's pregnancy ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:39:00 GMT

(AFP) - A father holds his infant son. Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday. Photo:Str/AFP

Children born to a surrogate mother or conceived ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - Children born to a surrogate mother or conceived through donated sperm or a donated egg do just as well psychologically as counterparts who are naturally conceived, a study unveiled on Sunday said. Photo:Evaristo Sa/AFP

Healthworker gives a child a Vitamin A supplement ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:37:00 GMT

(AFP) - Healthworker gives a child a Vitamin A supplement at a public health centre in Lagos in 2006. Nigerian health workers have begun house-to-house immunization of 4.6 million children under the age of five in the northern state of Kano in a new drive to eradicate the disease. Photo:Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pictured during ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pictured during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital in central London in 2007. Brown is trying to burnish his record on the 60th anniversary of Britain's National Health Service, but experts say the ploy could misfire as both he and it struggle to get off the sick list. Photo:Shaun Curry/AFP

View of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Fulham, ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - View of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Fulham, West London, one of London's major National Health Hospitals. Gordon Brown is trying to burnish his record on the 60th anniversary of Britain's National Health Service, but experts say the ploy could misfire as both he and it struggle to get off the sick list. Photo:Martin Hayhow/AFP

File photo shows the front entrance to St. Mary's ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo shows the front entrance to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, one of London's busiest National Health Hospitals. Gordon Brown is trying to burnish his record on the 60th anniversary of Britain's National Health Service, but experts say the ploy could misfire as both he and it struggle to get off the sick list. Photo:Martin Hayhow/AFP

A boy walks is seen walking in Wase Town in Nigeria's ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - A boy walks is seen walking in Wase Town in Nigeria's Plateau state in 2004. Radioactive materials in abandoned mining fields in central Nigeria's Plateau state pose a serious health hazard to two million people, officials have said. Photo:Pius Otomi Ekpei/AFP

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pictured ...

(AFP) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:43:00 GMT

(AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pictured during a visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital in central London in 2007. Brown is trying to burnish his record on the 60th anniversary of Britain's National Health Service Saturday, but experts say the ploy could misfire as both he and it struggle to get off the sick list. Photo:Shaun Curry/AFP

Former Justice Senator of Hamburg, Roger Kusch ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:37:00 GMT

(AFP) - Former Justice Senator of Hamburg, Roger Kusch addresses a press conference in June 2008. The German upper house discussed on Friday tightening laws on assisted suicide after a former politician caused outrage by helping an elderly woman to die -- and filming her final moments. Photo:Roland Magunia/AFP

Pakistani men at a police station reveal scars ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:38:00 GMT

(AFP) - Pakistani men at a police station reveal scars after their kidneys were removed. Two Indonesian men have been jailed and fined for involvement in illegal organ trading, a court official said Friday, in the first such case to be tried in Singapore. Photo:Arif Ali/AFP

Surgeons performing an operation. A Romanian ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

(AFP) - Surgeons performing an operation. A Romanian court has ordered a surgeon who severed a man's penis during an operation to pay his victim 500,000 euros (785,000 dollars) in compensation. Photo:Martin Bureau/AFP

Employees prepare buffalo mozzarella at a small ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:39:00 GMT

(AFP) - Employees prepare buffalo mozzarella at a small factory northwest of Naples, Italy, March 2008. Eleven thousand tonnes of rotting or out-of-date cheese from European dairies were mixed with fresh products and resold, according to an Italian police investigation reported by La Repubblica. Photo:Mario Laporta/AFP

A woman examines wine by holding the glass up ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - A woman examines wine by holding the glass up to the light during a fetival in Santa Cruz, Chile. A study by the US National Institute of Aging has shown that resveratrol -- an anti-oxidant found in red wine -- can slow age-related deterioration in mice. The study shows that drinking red wine leads to a better life, even if that life is not necessarily longer. Photo:Martin Bernetti/AFP

A nurse takes care of a newborn in a maternity ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:44:00 GMT

(AFP) - A nurse takes care of a newborn in a maternity ward of a hospital. A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported Thursday. Photo:Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP

Dr. Nicola Brown, a clinical psychologist and researcher with ...

(The Canadian Press) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:21:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Dr. Nicola Brown, a clinical psychologist and researcher with the Pride & Prejudice team at Central Toronto Youth Services, shown in Toronto, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Harris

A new kidney cancer vaccine failed in last-phase ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - A new kidney cancer vaccine failed in last-phase clinical trials to improve the odds of avoiding remission after tumour-removing surgery, according to a study released Friday. Photo:/AFP

Newborn babies rest at a neonatal room of a hospital ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - Newborn babies rest at a neonatal room of a hospital in 2007. European scientists have shed new light on the causes of the devastating, inexplicable syndrome known as sudden infant cot death, according to a study published Thursday. Photo:Miguel Alvarez/AFP

An ostrich is seen in June 2008. Greece on Thursday ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:23:00 GMT

(AFP) - An ostrich is seen in June 2008. Greece on Thursday said it would run health inspections on ostrich farms and cattle in the north of the country after a woman died from a tick-borne haemorrhagic fever. Photo:Michael Urban/AFP

Jean-Marie Cloutier, 83, of Ottawa looks out his room window ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:23:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Jean-Marie Cloutier, 83, of Ottawa looks out his room window at his nursing home in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

A scientific study published here Wednesday sheds ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:46:00 GMT

(AFP) - A scientific study published here Wednesday sheds light on why men who eat a lot of broccoli are less likely to develop prostate cancer. Photo:Luke Frazza/AFP

Cold sores, the painful blemishes of the mouth ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:26:00 GMT

(AFP) - Cold sores, the painful blemishes of the mouth caused by the herpes simplex virus, may become a thing of the past, US researchers reported on Wednesday in the British weekly journal Nature. Photo:/AFP

A South African patient prepares her medication ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - A South African patient prepares her medication at a HIV/AIDS clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high. Photo:Anna Zieminski/AFP

'Magic' mushrooms are grown at Procare in Hazerswoude-Dorp. ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:56:00 GMT

(AFP) - 'Magic' mushrooms are grown at Procare in Hazerswoude-Dorp. A new study has found that the feelings of well-being and life satisfaction brought on by the hallucinogen psilocybin -- found in 'magic' mushrooms -- can last for months. Photo:Koen Suyk/AFP

Magic mushrooms are grown at Procare in Hazerswoude-Dorp. ...

(AFP) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:35:00 GMT

(AFP) - Magic mushrooms are grown at Procare in Hazerswoude-Dorp. The feelings of well-being and life satisfaction brought on by the hallucinogen psilocybin, found in 'magic' mushrooms, can last for months, a new study published has revealed. Photo:Koen Suyk/AFP

A man smokes a cigarette. Oral and nasal snuff ...

(AFP) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:13:00 GMT

(AFP) - A man smokes a cigarette. Oral and nasal snuff and chewing tobacco increase the risk of certain types of cancer but are probably safer than smoking, according to a review published on Wednesday in the journal Lancet Oncology. Photo:Sajjad Hussain/AFP

Aids ribbons. Anti-retroviral drug therapy has ...

(AFP) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:40:00 GMT

(AFP) - Aids ribbons. Anti-retroviral drug therapy has slashed AIDS death rates in the first five years after infection to equal the normal death rates in developed countries, scientists said Tuesday. Photo:/AFP

Smoking a joint. A tobacco smoking ban came into ...

(AFP) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:41:00 GMT

(AFP) - Smoking a joint. A tobacco smoking ban came into force Tuesday in cafes, bars and restaurants throughout the Netherlands, with a uniquely Dutch exemption for marijuana smokers. Photo:Joost Ooijman/AFP

A tobacco smoking ban came into force Tuesday ...

(AFP) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:41:00 GMT

(AFP) - A tobacco smoking ban came into force Tuesday in cafes, bars and restaurants throughout the Netherlands, with a uniquely Dutch exemption for marijuana smokers. Photo:/AFP