It's worrisome that a Nigerian woman who died recently has tested positive for infection with H5N1 or the bird flu virus. But I'm still waiting to hear confirmation from the World Health Organization. We won't learn anything that's really significant--such...
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Just how basic are the basic health care needs of men, women and children in the poorest parts of the world? It's not enough simply to have access to medicine. You have to have the doctors and nurses who can...
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Perhaps it's books and movies like the Hot Zone, which showed hemorrhagic fever spreading from central Africa to the West, but there's long been a perception that bio threats begin in the developing world and mostly threaten the rich parts...
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Florence Nightingale could have predicted this. A growing number of antibiotic-resistant germs are turning up in the war wounds of U.S. combat troops in Iraq. Along with the usual drug-resistant staph and strep varieties, there is now a major hospital-bred...
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Do you reach for food in the late afternoon to boost your energy level? Would you rather be taking a nap? Learn strategies to overcome this urge to overeat when you are most vulnerable. Weight loss success is sure to follow.
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