File photo shows a baby drinking milk - unconnected to the latest milk scare - in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The number of young children in China sickened after drinking contaminated milk powder has risen to about 580, state media has reported, citing a senior official.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

BEIJING (AFP) -
Chinese state media said Monday [...]

File photo shows a baby drinking milk - unconnected to the latest milk scare - in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The number of young children in China sickened after drinking contaminated milk powder has risen to about 580, state media has reported, citing a senior official.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

BEIJING (AFP) -
The number of babies in [...]

Scientists on Sunday said intelligible speech is learnt in part through nerve signals from the vocal tract, a discovery that could open up an ambitious avenue of therapy for the deaf. The study is published online by the journal Nature Neuroscience.(Nature)

PARIS (AFP) -
Scientists on Sunday said intelligible speech is learnt in part through nerve signals [...]

A tuberculosis patient at a hospital. Scientists have figured out how tuberculosis tricks the immune system, a discovery that could lead to new anti-TB drugs, according to a study published Sunday.(AFP/File/Rajesh Jantilal)

PARIS (AFP) -
Scientists have figured out how tuberculosis tricks the immune system, a discovery that could lead to new anti-TB drugs, according to a [...]

Bryant Sears, working in a Teflon suit and wearing goggles and rubber gloves, sorts leftover medicines and contaminated packing one-by-one at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, May 13, 2008 in Minneapolis. Items are put into separate barrels and bins, depending on their differing disposal standards and methods. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

- U.S. hospitals and long-term [...]

A nine-month old child reaches for a bottle as she nears the finish line in a ‘diaper derby’ race at the premiere of ‘Superbabies Baby Geniuses,’ at the Sony studios lot in Los Angeles, August 26, 2004. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
The Food and Drug Administration
this week reopens the debate over a chemical used in many
plastic [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.
Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also make [...]

DHARAMSALA, Inde - Le dalai lama a annulé une tournée européenne prévue pour octobre, les médecins du chef spirituel tibétain lui ayant conseillé plus de repos, a annoncé dimanche son porte-parole à Dharamsala (nord de l’Inde).
Le dirigeant bouddhiste, âgé de 73 ans, avait été hospitalisé à Mumbai le mois dernier, souffrant selon ses conseillers d’épuisement. [...]

In deutschen Seniorenheimen wird derzeit Bowling gespielt, was das Zeug hält. Doch dafür machen sich nicht Heerscharen älterer Menschen auf zur nächsten Bowling-Bahn. Durch eine Initiative der Fakultät für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften der Hochschule München wird eine deutschlandweite Bowling-Meisterschaft an der Spielekonsole Wii unternommen - mit reger Beteiligung.
Dabei wird die Konsole in dem teilnehmenden Heim aufgestellt [...]

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

Pet Food Recalled After Salmonella Link
Suspected

Two isolated cases of a type of the salmonella bacterium known as
Salmonella Schwarzengrund in humans has caused a Pennsylvania pet food
manufacturer to recall a number of dry dog and cat food brands
nationwide.

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