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A nurse shows RU486 pills. The sale of the RU486 abortion pill ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:16:00 GMT

(AFP) - A nurse shows RU486 pills. The sale of the RU486 abortion pill in Italy was given a final green light on Wednesday with the publication in the official journal of its approval by the Italian pharmaceutical authority AIFA, despite Vatican and government objections. Photo:Manoocher Deghati/AFP

Children train for a soccer game on a field. Parents who let ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:59:00 GMT

(AFP) - Children train for a soccer game on a field. Parents who let their kids romp in the mud and get chummy with germs could be helping to protect them against maladies like heart disease later in life, a US study showed Wednesday. Photo:Marwan Naamani/AFP

A man sips a vodka cocktail from a glass made of ice. Older ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:24:00 GMT

(AFP) - A man sips a vodka cocktail from a glass made of ice. Older alcoholics knock back far more than younger ones, and for those over 60 that means an average of 42.5 drinks every week, a US study released Wednesday found. Photo:Leon Neal/AFP

A smoker flicks ashes at a bar in Washington, DC in 2005. The ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:19:00 GMT

(AFP) - A smoker flicks ashes at a bar in Washington, DC in 2005. The World Health Organisation on Wednesday called for more protection for non-smokers, after new data showed that just five percent of the world's population benefited from public smoking bans. Photo:Karen Bleier/AFP

A client smokes a cigarette at a bar, in Lille in 2006. The ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:19:00 GMT

(AFP) - A client smokes a cigarette at a bar, in Lille in 2006. The World Health Organisation on Wednesday called for more protection for non-smokers, after new data showed that just five percent of the world's population benefited from public smoking bans. Photo:Philippe Huguen/AFP

A rise in insecticide resistant mosquitoes has become the latest ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - A rise in insecticide resistant mosquitoes has become the latest threat to combating malaria in Nigeria, where roughly up to 300,000 people die each year from the killer disease, experts have warned. Photo:/AFP

A mother and her child sit on a bed covered with a mosquito ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - A mother and her child sit on a bed covered with a mosquito net in October 2009. A rise in insecticide resistant mosquitoes has become the latest threat to combating malaria in Nigeria, where roughly up to 300,000 people die each year from the killer disease, experts have warned. Photo:Tony Karumba/AFP

A mosquito is bloated with blood as it inserts its stinger into ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - A mosquito is bloated with blood as it inserts its stinger into human flesh in this undated photo released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). A rise in insecticide resistant mosquitoes has become the latest threat to combating malaria in Nigeria, where roughly up to 300,000 people die each year from the killer disease, experts have warned. Photo:/AFP

A scientist looks through a microscope. Scientists in France ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:56:00 GMT

(AFP) - A scientist looks through a microscope. Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species. Photo:Philippe Merle/AFP

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Alex ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:05:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Alex Brandon)

P.O.T., a non-profit co-operative medical marijuana dispensary, ...

(AFP) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:31:00 GMT

(AFP) - P.O.T., a non-profit co-operative medical marijuana dispensary, is pictured in October, in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles city authorities have passed an ordinance restricting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries, which have grown to almost 1,000 since the drug was authorized for sale for medicinal purposes in 1996. Photo:David Mcnew/AFP

Frank Hrabanek works with occupational therapist Hannah Hega ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:25:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Frank Hrabanek works with occupational therapist Hannah Hega in Toronto, Dec.2, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Touch Bionics-Sean Jacquemain

A woman at a French pharmacy holds a box of antiviral medication ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:11:00 GMT

(AFP) - A woman at a French pharmacy holds a box of antiviral medication Tamiflu in July 2009. Experts question the effectiveness of antiviral drug Tamiflu commonly used against the swine flu virus spreading across the globe, according to a study reported in Britain Tuesday. Photo:Miguel Medina/AFP

A Palestinian doctor wearing a protective mask against swine ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Palestinian doctor wearing a protective mask against swine flu or influenza A(H1N1) checks an X-ray scan at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Swine flu damages the entire airway, from the trachea to deep in the lungs, just as the viruses that caused the deadly 1918 and 1957 influenza pandemics did, but unlike seasonal flu, a report said Tuesday. Photo:Mohammed Abed/AFP

An Amby Baby Motion Bed. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Consumer Product ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:02:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - An Amby Baby Motion Bed. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Consumer Product Safety Commission)

South African nurses stand in a TB pediatric ward, in 2007 on ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:34:00 GMT

(AFP) - South African nurses stand in a TB pediatric ward, in 2007 on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. A record 2.3 million people were cured of tuberculosis in 2007, exceeding the global treatment target for the first time, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Photo:Gianluigi Guercia/AFP

Dr. Bogdanovski (L) administers an H1N1 flu vaccine to Bill ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:28:00 GMT

(AFP) - Dr. Bogdanovski (L) administers an H1N1 flu vaccine to Bill Burgess at Delaney Sisters Medical Center November 2009 in New York. The H1N1 flu outbreak appears to be less severe than earlier feared, according to a new study by US health experts who found fewer than expected hospitalizations or severe complications from the virus. Photo:Don Emmert/AFP

A Palestinian children wear masks to protect against the A(H1N1) ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Palestinian children wear masks to protect against the A(H1N1) virus in Gaza City. Hospital masks and anti-bacterial hand gel vanished from shelves in the Gaza Strip as fear gripped the besieged Hamas-ruled territory after the first deaths of swine flu. Photo:Mohammed Abed/AFP

A Palestinian doctor checks an X-ray at the Al-Shifa hospital ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Palestinian doctor checks an X-ray at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Hospital masks and anti-bacterial hand gel vanished from shelves in the Gaza Strip as fear gripped the besieged Hamas-ruled territory after the first deaths of swine flu. Photo:Mohammed Abed/AFP

A South Korean nurse injects swine flu vaccine into a colleague's ...

(AFP) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:16:00 GMT

(AFP) - A South Korean nurse injects swine flu vaccine into a colleague's arm in Seoul in late October. South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has instructed his government Tuesday to provide swift medical help to North Korea following reports the impoverished communist country has been hit by swine flu. Photo:Won Dai-Yeon/AFP

OxyContin tablets are seen at Brooks Drugs in Montpelier, Vt., ...

(The Canadian Press) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:52:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - OxyContin tablets are seen at Brooks Drugs in Montpelier, Vt., in this July 19, 2001, file photo. CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Toby Talbot

A chromosome abnormality called aneuploidy can cause cancer, ...

(AFP) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - A chromosome abnormality called aneuploidy can cause cancer, US researchers said in a study published Monday, confirming what scientists have long suspected. With virtually all human cancers having an abnormal number of chromosomes, researchers at the Mayo Clinic said in a statement. Photo:/AFP

A nurse draws up a syringe with swine flu vaccine in Leipzig, ...

(AFP) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:11:00 GMT

(AFP) - A nurse draws up a syringe with swine flu vaccine in Leipzig, eastern Germany, in November 2009. Germany wants to sell to other countries millions of spare swine flu vaccines because of fewer people than expected coming forward to be injected, the country's health minister said on Monday. Photo:Sebastian Willnow/AFP

A view of the Bayer plant in Wuppertal-Elberfield, Germany. ...

(AFP) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:31:00 GMT

(AFP) - A view of the Bayer plant in Wuppertal-Elberfield, Germany. The German pharmaceutical and chemical group said on Monday it had won European approval for its Visanne drug, which treats the gynecological disease endometriosis. Photo:/AFP

A bottle of medication pills. The trade in counterfeit medicines ...

(AFP) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - A bottle of medication pills. The trade in counterfeit medicines in the European Union has exceeded the body's worst fears, the European industry commissioner said on Monday. Photo:/AFP

South African President Jacob Zuma (left) joins Zulu King Goodwill ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:35:00 GMT

(AFP) - South African President Jacob Zuma (left) joins Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini for a festival in Kwadukuzu, some 90 kilometres north of Durban, in 2008. Photo:Rajesh Jantilal/AFP

Samson 'Ngonyama' Mvubo, who's been practicing as a traditional ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:25:00 GMT

(AFP) - Samson 'Ngonyama' Mvubo, who's been practicing as a traditional healer since he was 10-year-old, walks inside his shop at the Faraday market in Johannesburg. Traditional medicine is big business in South Africa where health-care is split between pricey, top-notch urban private care and run-down, overstretched state services that cater for most of the 48 million population. Photo:Paballo Thekiso/AFP

A woman wearing tradional healer's attire walks through Faraday ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:25:00 GMT

(AFP) - A woman wearing tradional healer's attire walks through Faraday market in Johannesburg. Traditional medicine is big business in South Africa where health-care is split between pricey, top-notch urban private care and run-down, overstretched state services that cater for most of the 48 million population. Photo:Paballo Thekiso/AFP

Samson 'Ngonyama' Mvubo, who's been practicing as a traditional ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:25:00 GMT

(AFP) - Samson 'Ngonyama' Mvubo, who's been practicing as a traditional healer since he was 10 years old, sits inside his shop at the Faraday market in Johannesburg. The Faraday medicine market, a stone's throw from one of Johannesburg's revamped 2010 World Cup football stadiums, is where South Africans come to seek help for anything from high blood pressure to warding off bad dreams. Photo:Paballo Thekiso/AFP

An HIV-positive man in New Zealand has admitted injecting his ...

(AFP) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - An HIV-positive man in New Zealand has admitted injecting his blood into his sleeping wife and infecting her with the virus which can cause AIDS, a newspaper reported Sunday. Photo:Justin Sullivan/AFP

Slim-Fast logo. Cans of a popular, Slim-Fast ready-to-drink ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:49:00 GMT

(AFP) - Slim-Fast logo. Cans of a popular, Slim-Fast ready-to-drink weight loss product are being recalled in the United States after tests showed the liquid meals could be tainted with bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. Photo:/AFP

Eleven-month-old Abigail Gray-Donald is held by father Trent ...

(The Canadian Press) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:20:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Eleven-month-old Abigail Gray-Donald is held by father Trent as she gets the H1N1 vaccine at Tom Brown arena in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit

A person receive a flu vaccine. The World Health Organisation ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:18:00 GMT

(AFP) - A person receive a flu vaccine. The World Health Organisation has confirmed that swine flu has peaked in North America and was declining, in its latest weekly data on the pandemic. Photo:David Greedy/AFP

Former Cameroon international goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - Former Cameroon international goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell speaks at a press conference to use football in the fight against malaria under the banner 'United against Malaria' on the sidelines of the upcoming World Cup 2010 draw. Photo:Alexander Joe/AFP

A pregnant woman carries a carton of milk on her head at a market ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - A pregnant woman carries a carton of milk on her head at a market in Lagos in 2003. The number of women dying from pregnancy-related complications in Nigeria is akin to a plane crashing every day, but the crisis gets less noticed amid pandemics such as AIDS and malaria, activists say. Photo:Pius Otomi Ekpei/AFP

An investor is seen falling asleep at a Taipei securities trading ...

(AFP) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:47:00 GMT

(AFP) - An investor is seen falling asleep at a Taipei securities trading house. The number of Taiwanese suffering from chronic insomnia has nearly doubled in three years, as economic worries caused by the global downturn have brought more sleepless nights, according to a new study. Photo:Patrick Lin/AFP

Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc speaks June 4, 2009 at the ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:37:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc speaks June 4, 2009 at the Quebec legislature. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

A warning sign outside the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. nuclear ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:50:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - A warning sign outside the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., is seen in this Dec. 19, 2007 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand

An experimental treatment targeting hepatitis C was able to ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:29:00 GMT

(AFP) - An experimental treatment targeting hepatitis C was able to inhibit replication of the virus in the bloodstream of chimpanzees and could treat chronic infections in humans, a new study said. The treatment works by inhibiting a molecule that helps hepatitis C virus replicate, according to scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR). Photo:/AFP

Information on the H1N1 flu and vaccination are displayed during ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - Information on the H1N1 flu and vaccination are displayed during a drive thru H1N1 vaccination clinic at Doctor's Medical Center November 2009 in San Pablo, California. US health officials on Thursday warned of an Internet scam doing the rounds which says all adults are required to register a personal swine flu vaccination profile with the federal authorities. Photo:Justin Sullivan/AFP

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq talks to reporters during a news ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:41:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq talks to reporters during a news conference in the House of Commons foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Thursday December 3, 2009.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand

VIDEO: WHO says swine flu virus has not yet mutated into a more ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:28:00 GMT

(AFP) - VIDEO: WHO says swine flu virus has not yet mutated into a more serious disease. Originally filed: 210909. Duration: 1:16 Photo:/AFP

A scientist prepares a DNA test for the swine flu virus.Dutch ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:28:00 GMT

(AFP) - A scientist prepares a DNA test for the swine flu virus.Dutch authorities said Thursday a patient infected by a mutant strain of the swine flu virus had died, but added that this was not the cause of death. Photo:Leon Neal/AFP

Facts on Tuberculosis. The government of the Marshalls Islands ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - Facts on Tuberculosis. The government of the Marshalls Islands is taking emergency measures to tackle an outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the western Pacific nation, officials said Thursday. Photo:/AFP

The parched remains of a mangrove in the drought-ravaged Gayngaru ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:00 GMT

(AFP) - The parched remains of a mangrove in the drought-ravaged Gayngaru wetlands of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The rotting carcasses of thousands of wild camels who have died of thirst in Australia's desert Outback are polluting vital waterholes and sacred sites, a report says. Photo:Torsten Blackwood/AFP

A feral camel is seen searching for food near the dry Ross River, ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:00 GMT

(AFP) - A feral camel is seen searching for food near the dry Ross River, west of Alice Springs in Australia. The rotting carcasses of thousands of wild camels who have died of thirst in Australia's desert Outback are polluting vital waterholes and sacred sites, according to a report. Photo:Torsten Blackwood/AFP

A person receives a A(H1N1) flu vaccine in Paris. The vaccination ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:32:00 GMT

(AFP) - A person receives a A(H1N1) flu vaccine in Paris. The vaccination of millions of Europeans against swine flu has yet to raise any major safety concerns, the European Union's medicines watchdog says. Photo:Lionel Bonaventure/AFP

Chinese medical personnel prepare swine flu medicine at a hospital ...

(AFP) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:49:00 GMT

(AFP) - Chinese medical personnel prepare swine flu medicine at a hospital in Hefei in eastern China's Anhui province in November 2009. The World Health Organisation on Wednesday recommended boosted antiviral treatment for hospital patients with severely weakened immune systems who contract swine flu, following recent clusters of Tamiflu resistance. Photo:/AFP

A Cambodian woman chews tobacco in her Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:05:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - A Cambodian woman chews tobacco in her Phnom Penh, Cambodia, slum home. When morning sickness sends Cambodian women heaving, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco. Many then become hooked on spitting the addictive juice, a worrying tradition that puts both mother and baby at risk for health problems, the World Health Organization said. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/David Longstreath)

Amputee Pierpaolo Petruzziello touches a robotic hand during ...

(The Canadian Press) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:37:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Amputee Pierpaolo Petruzziello touches a robotic hand during a press conference in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Alessandra Tarantino)