Anti-abortion activists light candles during a protest at the Monument to the Mother in Mexico City in April 2008. Mexico's supreme court on Thursday rejected a bid to reverse a law which allows abortions in the country's capital, with the support of eight out of 11 judges.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
Mexico's top court on Thursday [...]

WASHINGTON - Scientists for the first time have peered into people’s brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer’s disease.
The delicate research was performed not with Alzheimer’s patients but with people suffering severe brain injuries — because a brain injury increases the risk of developing dementia [...]

Anti-abortion activists light candles during a protest at the Monument to the Mother in Mexico City in April 2008. Mexico's supreme court on Thursday rejected a bid to reverse a law which allows abortions in the country's capital, with the support of eight out of 11 judges.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)

MEXICO CITY (AFP) -
Mexico's supreme court on Thursday [...]

Logo of Matmagasinet. Ten thousand copies of the food magazine Matmagasinet were recalled in Sweden after a mistake in one of its recipes left four people poisoned, the magazine said Thursday.(Matmagasinet)

STOCKHOLM (AFP) -
Ten thousand copies of a food magazine were recalled in Sweden after a mistake in one of its recipes left four people poisoned, [...]

WASHINGTON - Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.
The report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found 11.7 percent of deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
For people who are strongly
allergic to bee venom, desensitization using sublingual (i.e.,
under-the-tongue) immunotherapy may be a safer than injection
immunotherapy, according to a proof-of-concept clinical trial
conducted in Italy.

“Our research opens a new possible application of
sublingual immunotherapy, which was never proposed for
hymenoptera allergy,” Dr. Giovanni Passalacqua told Reuters
Health.

The standard way to [...]

Histological section showing cervical cancer cells are seen in a handout photo from the National Cancer Institute. (NCI/Handout/Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) -
New screening tests and effective
vaccines from Merck & Co and GlaxoSmithKline make tackling
cervical cancer in poor countries a real possibility for the
first time, researchers said on Thursday.

Experts who presented their findings at a conference in
Geneva [...]

A man organizes a stock of condoms and contraceptives at the office of a non-profit organization in Manila in 2007. The Philippine Health Department will promote the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS despite disapproval from the influential Roman Catholic church, an official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

MANILA (AFP) -
The Philippine Health Department will [...]

Goat cheese cures at a factory. Four people recently fell ill with tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in western Austria after eating homemade goats' cheese, medical experts reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Alain Jocard)

VIENNA (AFP) -
Four people recently fell ill with tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in western Austria after eating homemade goats' cheese, medical experts reported Thursday.
A shepherd in western Vorarlberg province, [...]

CHICAGO - In an Aug. 26 story about a new TV ad linking hot dogs with cancer, The Associated Press, relying on figures provided by a nutrition adviser to the American Institute for Cancer Research, erroneously reported average risks for colon cancer and how eating hot dogs affects those risks. Karen Collins said she misstated [...]