A doctor injects a patient with an anti-wrinkle product. Months after US authorities sounded the alarm, European officials are warning of dangerous possible side effects from the wrinkle-smoothing injection Botox(AFP/File/Pascal George)

BERLIN (AFP) -
Months after US authorities sounded the alarm, European officials are warning of dangerous possible side effects from the wrinkle-smoothing injection Botox, according to [...]

BERLIN (AFP) - Le commissaire européen à l’Emploi et aux Affaires sociales Vladimir Spidla veut augmenter la durée du congé de maternité de 14 à 18 semaines dans l’Union européenne et doit présenter un projet de directive le 8 octobre, affirme le magazine allemand Wirtschaftswoche.
Selon l’hebdomadaire à paraître lundi, qui dit être en possession du [...]

Schlägt sich ein Kind beim Toben einen Milchzahn aus, kann das Auswirkungen auf seine Gebiss- und Sprachentwicklung haben. Besonders problematisch wird es, wenn es sich um die beiden Vorderzähne handelt. Fehlen beide Milchfrontzähne, kann es passieren, dass sich die Zunge falsch einlagert, erklärte Dietmar Oesterreich, Vizepräsident der Bundeszahnärztekammer in Berlin. Die große Zahnlücke fördere nicht [...]

Jamuna Shrestha, the surviving Nepalese conjoined twin who underwent a marathon operation in Singapore seven years ago, pictured with her father in Singapore General Hospital in May 2001. The girl, whose sister Ganga Shrestha died in July from respiratory problems, is set to return to Singapore in September for reconstructive skull surgery(AFP/STRAITS TIMES/File)

SINGAPORE (AFP) -
The [...]

MUMBAI, Inde - Le dalaï lama sortira de l’hôpital lundi après avoir passé plusieurs examens médicaux pour un problème intestinal, a annoncé dimanche son porte-parole. "Il se sent bien. Il sortira demain (lundi)", a précisé Tenzin Takla.
Il a refusé de dévoiler les résultats des examens.
Le dalaï lama, 73 ans, est hospitalisé à Mumbai (ex-Bombay) depuis [...]

This file photo shows a patient being wheeled through an emergency room. Two US hospitals were put on emergency lockdown Saturday after several patients arrived at St. Louis, Missouri emergency rooms after being exposed to an unknown substance, according to hospital officials.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Two US hospitals were put on emergency lockdown Saturday after [...]

Karina De Beule, Federal Nuclear Control Agency spokeswoman, holds up a map depicting Fleurus on August 29, 2008 during a press conference regarding contamination risks following a radioactive iodine leak. Belgian authorities reduced on Saturday a safety zone near a medical laboratory in the southern town of Fleurus where a leak of radioactive iodine occurred [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
The blood pressure drug
valsartan (sold as Diovan) safely and effectively lowers blood
pressure in youngsters aged 1 to 5 years who have high blood
pressure (also called hypertension), a study shows.

“The blood pressure reductions produced by valsartan were
clinically relevant and did not cause adverse effects,” Dr.
Joseph T. Flynn, from Children's Hospital and [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by
editors of HealthDay:

Feds Can Bar Mad Cow Tests: Court

The U.S. government has the authority to bar meat companies from
testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court has
ruled.

The Department of Agriculture's failure to test more than a fraction of
cows [...]

- SATURDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — This Labor Day weekend, the
Vision Council and National Sleep Foundation are warning people of the
dangers of driving with poor vision or while drowsy.

These two rarely recognized driving hazards are just as deadly as poor
road conditions and drunk driving.

In a recent survey, Shedding Light on Driving in the [...]