A child is vaccinated against infectious diseases such as tetanus and measles in March 2008. Football fans risk being literally as “sick as a parrot” whether their teams win or lose at this summer's Euro 2008 games in Switzerland due to a measles epidemic, health authorities warned Wednesday.(AFP/ANP/File/Robin Utrecht)

GENEVA (AFP) -
Football fans risk being literally [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Older people should be careful
when getting into cars, and even more so when getting out, a
new analysis of national injury data shows.
An estimated 37,000 people 65 and older are injured each
year when entering or exiting a vehicle, Dr. Ann M. Dellinger
of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the
Centers [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Babies born to overweight or
obese women have more fat and less muscle than infants born to
normal-weight moms, according to one of the first studies to
compare newborns' body composition to their mothers'
pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI).
Obesity is on the rise among pregnant women, while more and
more North American and European infants weigh [...]

A malnourished boy sits with his mother at a Medecins Sans Frontieres' hospital in El Wak village, Kenya in 2006. Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres warned Wednesday that much of the food aid given to poor countries grappling with rising prices was unsuitable for malnourished children.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

GENEVA (AFP) -
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned [...]

The logo of the Swiss drugs giant Novartis is seen in Basel. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Wednesday said it will cut the prices of its malaria treatment Coartem by 20 percent.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)

GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Wednesday said it will cut the prices of its malaria treatment Coartem by 20 percent.
The [...]

Beds lie empty in the emergency room of Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans February 14, 2006. (Lee Celano/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Federal government figures show a
steep spike in U.S. cases of a common but serious infection
that gives hospital patients sometimes deadly diarrhea and
blood poisoning.
They show a 200 percent increase in the number of hospital
patients infected with [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Breakfast cereals for children
are less healthy than cereals meant for adults, and those
marketed the most aggressively to kids have the worst
nutritional quality, according to a new analysis of 161 brands.
“The cereal the parent is eating him or herself is probably
better than what they're feeding their child,” Dr. Marlene B.
Schwartz of Yale [...]

The sun sets next to a smokestack from a coal-burning power station in Beijing, January 9, 2008. Even breathing in a little ozone at levels found in many areas is likely to kill some people prematurely, the National Research Council reported on Tuesday. (David Gray/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Even breathing in a little ozone at
levels found in [...]

Jefferson County Sheriff Cadet Andrew Sevitts directs traffic as police stop drivers to see if they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol at a mobile Driving Under the Influence (DUI) checkpoint in Golden, Colorado, April 12, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
About 15 percent of U.S. adults have
driven under the influence of alcohol in [...]

Thousands have marched through Santiago after Chile's Constitutional Court banned free distribution of the “morning-after” contraceptive pill at government health centers.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Getty Images)

SANTIAGO (AFP) -
Thousands have marched through the capital after Chile's Constitutional Court banned free distribution of the “morning-after” contraceptive pill at government health centers.
About 10,000 people marched in Santiago Tuesday evening, the online [...]