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Ukrainians emptied pharmacies of masks and flu medicines on Saturday after the government ordered a three-week closure of schools and cinemas to combat swine flu. In Lviv in the western region, some pharmacies ran out of flu medicines and masks after worried customers made bulk purchases. Residents complained pharmacies were profiting from the panic caused by the announcement on Friday ... read more
London (AFP) Oct 29, 2009Britons with the highest risk of catching swine flu should receive vaccinations by mid-December, the government said Thursday as the numbers catching the illness rose. Health workers, pregnant women and people suffering from cancer, diabetes, heart disease and asthma are first in line for the injections. Ian Dalton, the national director for flu resilience, said all family doctors in ... more
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Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Tehran (AFP) Oct 28, 2009Iran will deliver on Thursday its much-awaited response to a UN-brokered nuclear deal under which it would export low-enriched uranium for conversion into fuel for a medical research reactor, the Mehr news agency said. The report quoted an unnamed informed source as saying Tehran's "final response" would propose some modifications in the draft of the Western-backed plan but accepts the ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 28, 2009Russia came under fire from international AIDS campaigners on Wednesday for refusing to provide drug users with drug substitution therapy to stem a spreading HIV epidemic. Russia's chief medical official Gennady Onishchenko told a major AIDS conference that Moscow opposed providing methadone -- a synthetic drug that is not injected -- to heroin users. He said that Russia preferred to ... more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2009President Barack Obama declared swine flu a "national emergency" on Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and more than 1,000 deaths. The emergency declaration, which Obama signed late Friday, lets doctors and nurses temporarily bypass certain federal requirements so they can better handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients. The declaration comes ... more |
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Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Oct 12, 2009 U.S. medical researchers say they've identified a molecule that plays a key role in the formation of brain synapses. The Stanford University Medical Center scientists said their discovery, based on experiments in cell culture and in mice, could advance science's understanding of how children's brains develop, as well as point to new approaches toward countering brain disorders in adults ... more  
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 4, 2009In quake-hit Indonesia, the flooded Philippines and typhoon-ravaged Vietnam, troops are evacuating the wounded and stranded, distributing food and medicines - and gaining the public's admiration. As countries across Southeast Asia clean up and count the dead following a series of devastating natural disasters, the militaries engaged in relief work have seized the moment to burnish their som ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Iran agreed in principle Thursday to ship most of its declared enriched uranium stockpile to Russia, where it would be refined as fuel for a small reactor producing medical isotopes, a US official said. The agreement came after seven and a half hours of talks between Iran and world powers just outside Geneva, where Tehran also agreed to grant the United Nations access to a newly-revealed cov ... more |
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