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.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) -
Nigerian health workers Saturday [...]

- SATURDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) — A few simple safety
precautions can help ensure your summer fun doesn't lead to the hospital
emergency department, says Dr. Jeff Kalina, associate director of
emergency medicine at the Methodist Hospital in Houston.

Avoid overheating. If you're playing/exercising outside in hot weather,
drink water or beverages with electrolytes. Don't drink caffeinated
beverages because [...]

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 Saturday, but experts say the ploy could misfire as both he and it struggle to get off the sick list.(AFP/File/Martin [...]

- FRIDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) — The brains of people who
suffer from anxiety and severe shyness may respond more strongly to stress
and show signs of being anxious even in situations considered safe by
others, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
and Public Health.

They studied brain activity, anxious behavior and stress [...]

In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, tomatoes ripen on the vine in Hanover County, Va. Since a salmonella scare has caused many customers to shun what’s normally a summer favorite, tomato farmers across the nation have had to plow under their fields and leave their crop to rot in packinghouses. (AP Photo/Steve [...]

BOGOTA (AFP) - L’euphorie, la prise de conscience des épreuves passées, puis le retour à la vie professionnelle et familiale constituent les trois étapes obligées que vont connaître les ex-otages de Colombie, dont Ingrid Betancourt libérée mercredi après six ans de captivité, selon les experts.
25% des otages qui ont subi un enlèvement prolongé dans des [...]

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.(AFP/DDP/File/Roland Magunia)

BERLIN (AFP) -
The German upper house discussed on Friday tightening [...]

KANO (AFP) - Des émanations radioactives de mines désaffectées dans le centre du Nigeria mettent en danger quelque deux millions d’habitants de la région, ont annoncé samedi des responsables à Kano (nord).
“Quelque deux millions de personnes vivent et travaillent près de mines désaffectées dans l’Etat du Central Plateau et cela signifie qu’elles sont en danger [...]

Für empfindliche Kinderhaut sind Sonnenschutzmittel mit mineralischen Filtern die erste Wahl. Denn diese wirken sofort nach dem Auftragen, wie die in Frankfurt erscheinende Zeitung Öko-Test berichtet. Bei der Verwendung sollten Eltern nicht sparsam sein, sondern das Mittel reichlich und dick auf die Haut der Sprösslinge cremen. Dr. Richard Turner vom Churchill-Krankenhaus in Oxford empfiehlt für [...]