VALENCE (AFP) - Un troisième incident en quinze jours a affecté la filière nucléaire française, avec la contamination à faible dose mercredi matin de cent employés de la centrale nucléaire EDF du Tricastin (Drôme), “fait sans gravité” selon EDF mais qui “inquiète” l’association Criirad.
Vers 09H30, lors d’une opération de maintenance dans le bâtiment d’enceinte du [...]

A nurse treats dengue patients in a goverment hospital in Manila in 2006. Global warming may have contributed to a 43 percent rise in the number of dengue cases in the Philippines for the first half of the year, the health secretary said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Joel Nito)

MANILA (AFP) -
Global warming may have contributed to a 43 percent [...]

VALENCE (AFP) - Un quatrième incident en quinze jours a affecté la filière nucléaire française, avec la contamination à faible dose mercredi matin de cent employés de la centrale nucléaire EDF du Tricastin (Drôme), “fait sans gravité” selon EDF mais qui “inquiète” l’association Criirad.
Vers 09H30, lors d’une opération de maintenance dans le bâtiment d’enceinte du [...]

Ein genetischer Defekt in Hautzellen begünstigt offenbar eine Reihe von Allergie-Erkrankungen. Laut einer neuen Studie könnte ein genetisch bedingter Mangel an einem bestimmten Eiweiß die Ursache hierfür sein, denn das sogenannte Filaggrin spielt bei der Entstehung von Allergien eine entscheidende Rolle.
Bei ihrer Überprüfung haben Münchner Wissenschaftler des Helmholtz Zentrums und der Technischen Universität bei Freiwilligen [...]

Health workers take part in a bird flu outbreak drill in Denpasar, on the resort island of Bali, earlier this year. Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the virus, an Indonesian official said.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka)

JAKARTA (AFP) -
Bird flu [...]

A large AIDS ribbon hangs from the North Portico of the White House in Washington November 30, 2007, recognizing World AIDS Day which is on December 1. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said on Tuesday it will soon release
long-awaited revised estimates of how many Americans become
infected with the AIDS virus [...]

CHICAGO - Tuberculosis cases continue to fall in the United States, but some immigrants have disturbingly high rates of the disease, according to a study released Tuesday that called for more aggressive action.
TB rates were highest among residents from lower Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. Most drug-resistant TB cases also were from foreign-born residents, [...]

- TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) — It's a good bet mom never
told you to speak to your doctor before getting pregnant. But these days,
that's exactly what women of childbearing age — and their male
partners — are being encouraged to do.

Experts say most physicians realize the importance of pre-pregnancy
counseling and measures, making sure, for [...]

- TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) — Mild memory impairment may
be associated with a sound processing disorder called central auditory
processing dysfunction, say U.S. researchers.

People with the disorder have difficulty hearing in complex situations
with competing noise, such as making out what one person is saying while
many people in a group are talking at the same [...]

- TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) — The drug that turned around
the sex lives of many older men has proven in a small trial to also help
women on antidepressants who experience sexual dysfunction.

The eight-week study found that Viagra, also known as sildenafil,
helped women achieve orgasm.

“In this study population, sildenafil treatment of sexual [...]