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First Vietnam bird flu death in 2010Hanoi (AFP) Feb 26, 2010 A 38-year-old woman has become the first victim of bird flu in Vietnam in 2010, bringing the country's toll from avian influenza to 58, the health ministry said Friday. The woman died Tuesday in the southern province of Tien Giang after two days of unsuccessful hospital treatment, said the ministry in an online statement. The victim had killed and cooked sick waterfowl, the statement added. Vietnam's last death from the H5N1 virus was in December. At present, outbreaks of bird flu among ... read more |
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Kampala (AFP) Feb 3, 2010A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed. President George W. Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration's programme has shifted a ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 8, 2010Nearly a month after an earthquake devastated Haiti, medical teams still treat trauma patients but also face a new wave of ailments linked to poor hygiene and squalid, cramped living conditions. After three sleepless nights with debilitating pain in her lower back, 53-year-old Anne Setoute waited for her turn at the Canape Vert hospital in the capital Port-au-Prince. Her house came crash ... more  
Monash, Australia (SPX) Feb 08, 2010Monash University biochemists have found a critical piece in the evolutionary puzzle that explains how life on Earth evolved millions of centuries ago. The team, from the School of Biomedical Sciences, has described the process by which bacteria developed into more complex cells and found this crucial step happened much earlier in the evolutionary timeline than previously thought. Te ... more |
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Obama budget tries to ease strain on stretched US militaryWashington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 President Barack Obama's defense budget invests heavily in medical care and morale-boosting programs for US soldiers and their families amid the mounting strain of more than eight years of war. The 2011 budget unveiled on Monday and a Pentagon strategy review put a spotlight on the emotional and financial burden placed on the all-volunteer force since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The budget calls for 30.9 billion dollars for medical care, including 669 million to treat traumatic brain inju ... read more |
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