PARIS (AFP) -
The world's paramount authority on trade in farm animals on Wednesday urged countries not to let up in the fight against deadly bird flu.

The World Organisation for Animal Health(OIE), the world's paramount authority on trade in farm animals, urged countries on Wednesday not to let up in the fight against deadly bird flu.(OIE)

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Children from poor families are more likely than their peers to be depressed as teenagers, with effects that can ultimately make it harder to climb out from poverty, a new study suggests.

The study, which followed nearly 500 Iowa families for a decade, found that children in poorer families were at greater [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Pregnant women with low levels of education are nearly twice as likely as their more educated peers to give birth prematurely, researchers from the Netherlands report.

However, most of the risk can be attributed to the disadvantages that come with poor education, rather than educational level itself.

In fact, as Dr. Pauline W. [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
A new report highlights the potentially serious health risks of using imported Brazilian-made prescription diet pills that combine amphetamines and other prescription medicines, such as anti-anxiety agents and antidepressants.

Pills are shown in this undated file photo. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

Banned amphetamine-based weight loss pills are easily available via the Internet and are being [...]

LONDON (AFP) -
People who have been treated for a melanoma have more than twice the risk of developing another form of cancer, according to a study published Wednesday.

Dr Scott Menzies (left) uses a SolarScan imaging gun to check Michelle Avramidis' skin for deadly melanomas at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. People who have been [...]

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama’s reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn’t had that much clout in decades.

In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a screening of the environmental documentary ‘Planet in Peril,’ in New [...]

HANOI (Reuters) -
The sister of Vietnam's first confirmed bird flu patient of the year died with similar symptoms last week and the director of the hospital where she was treated said she probably also had avian flu.

“We suspect that it was bird flu that caused her death,” said Truong Thi Mau, director of the Ba [...]

WASHINGTON - The nation’s largest medical lab company says it recently discovered and fixed a problem that led to inaccuracies in a small number of tests for vitamin D deficiency.
Quest Diagnostics of Madison, N.J., notified thousands of doctors in the fall who had ordered tests for their patients that it had found the problem and [...]

LONDON (Reuters) -
A team of British doctors conducting experiments in the “Death Zone” of Mount Everest has recorded the lowest levels of blood oxygen in humans, far below those of critically ill patients.

University College London researcher and mountain climber Dan Martin is seen conducting experiments in the ‘Death Zone’ on Mount Everest that recorded the [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Certain gene mutations permit scientists to predict the risk of recurrence of common forms of leukemia in children, according to findings published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) logo. Certain gene mutations permit scientists to predict the risk of recurrence of common forms of leukemia in children, [...]