- SATURDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) — Sports-related eye
injuries are the leading cause of blindness in school-age children, but
most could be prevented with the proper eye protection.

To educate the public on this, Prevent Blindness America — the
nation's oldest volunteer eye health and safety organization — has made
September “Sports Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month.” [...]

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

Despite New Law, HIV-Positive Travelers Still
Banned from Entering U.S.

Even though President Bush signed a bill in July that ended a 15-year
ban on international travelers with HIV from entering the United States,
nothing has changed, the Associated Press reports.

The law Bush [...]

An Afghan refugee child receives a Polio vaccination in Kabul in May 2008. A spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban said the militia would cease attacks on UN Peace Day on Sunday and would not obstruct a three-day polio vaccination starting the same day.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) -
A spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban said the militia would cease [...]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -
Bayer's multiple sclerosis (MS)
treatment Betaferon was shown to be more effective when given
on the first sign of the disease than if treatment is delayed,
the German drugmaker said on Saturday.

Compared to initial placebo treatment, early use of
Betaferon delayed the onset of definite MS by 37 percent or 45
percent over a five-year period, depending [...]

PARIS (AFP) - La 15ème journée mondiale Alzheimer, dimanche, donnera lieu à toute une gamme de manifestations de sensibilisation à cette maladie qui touche plus de 800.000 personnes en France.
En préambule, vendredi, le président Nicolas Sarkozy a fait un point d’étape du “plan Alzheimer” 2008-2012 annoncé en février, en 44 mesures, qui prévoit l’engagement de [...]

Charles Todd Lee is seen in his room at the Community Care Center in Plant City, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. He’s among the Medicaid recipients across Florida challenging the nightmare of the old and disabled: to be forced from comfort and familiarity into a nursing home. They say the state is illegally forcing them [...]

PEKIN (AFP) - Le scandale du lait frelaté en Chine rappelle douloureusement à la classe moyenne chinoise la face noire de cette forte croissance qui lui permet de consommer et de jouir d’une vie plus facile.
“Je crois que beaucoup de gens ont le cancer maintenant en raison de la nourriture que nous mangeons”, dit Cathy [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Le gouvernement français a indiqué samedi qu’”aucune présence de lait en provenance de Chine n’(avait) été détectée sur le territoire européen” et a rappelé que l’importation de produits laitiers chinois est interdite dans l’Union européenne.
La Commission européenne a demandé aux pays de l’UE de renforcer leurs contrôles aux frontières, rappelle le gouvernement [...]

President Bush walks with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008, to make a statement about the economy and government efforts to remedy the crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON - Experts at an early August international AIDS conference in Mexico City [...]

CANNES (AFP) - La ministre de la Santé, Roselyne Bachelot, a appelé samedi les médecins hospitaliers ayant une activité libérale à l’hôpital “à la responsabilité”, jugeant que la “grève totale” souhaitée par certains d’entre eux pourrait affecter les patients.
Un syndicat de praticiens hospitaliers, le SNDELMH, a appelé vendredi les médecins qui exercent une activité libérale [...]