BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Sunday became the latest country to declare war on plastic bags in a drive to save energy and protect the environment.

Under new regulations, flimsy bags under 0.025 millimeters thick are banned and shopkeepers must charge for carrier bags. Those found breaking the law face fines and could have their goods [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - New drug cocktails have shown promise in the fight against breast cancer, a diseases that annually kills more than half an million of women around the world, two new studies show.

The research was unveiled at an annual meeting here of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
One of the large-scale studies that involved [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - New drug cocktails have shown promise in the fight against breast cancer, a diseases that annually kills more than half an million of women around the world, two new studies show.

The research was unveiled at an annual meeting here of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
One of the large-scale studies that involved [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Beneath football’s image of fitness and heartiness lies a less healthy reality, say medical investigators, who have found that for fragile spectators, a match can quite literally be a sudden-death playoff.

Doctors eyeing the Euro 2008 are bracing for a rise in emergency calls, cardiac arrests, wife beatings, punchups, drunken driving, depression, self-harm [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - Acupuncture provides significant pain relief for patients after head or neck cancer surgery, according to a clinical study released at the annual meeting here of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.

A traditional Chinese medical technique, acupuncture was also found to improve shoulder mobility that is often restricted after surgical cancer procedures involving [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - A treatment combining Avastin, which stems the blood supply to tumors, with cell division blocker Taxotere slows the progression of advanced breast cancer, said an international clinical study presented Saturday.

In earlier studies, Avastin (a trade name for the drug bevacizumab) added to Taxol (paclitaxel) — similar to Taxotere (docetaxel) — doubled the [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - A treatment against osteoporosis that uses the biophosphate Zometa has shown to reduce the risk of early breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by 35 percent, a study presented here showed.

The study, unveiled at the 44th annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, is the first large-scale study (1,800 women) showing [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - A treatment against osteoporosis that uses the biophosphate Zometa has shown to reduce the risk of early breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by 35 percent, a study presented here showed.

The study, unveiled at the 44th annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, is the first large-scale study (1,800 women) showing [...]

AMSTERDAM (AFP) - The number of incidents linked to the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Amsterdam rose last year, with most cases involving foreign tourists, health service statistics showed Saturday.

Medical intervention was needed for 149 incidents in 2007, an increase of 19 percent from the previous year, according to numbers from the municipal health service. [...]

DUBAI (AFP) - The Gulf emirate of Dubai on Saturday banned the sale of tobacco to anyone under the age of 20 with immediate effect and barred young people from public areas in which smoking is allowed.

The announcement was made in public advertisements in Arabic-language newspapers as part of a “Youth Without Tobacco” campaign.
A spokesman [...]