Archive for May 19th, 2008
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Eight people have been killed by a lone gunman who fired a M-16 rifle at four houses late Sunday night, local media reported Monday.
Neighbors told police investigators that the gunman went from one house to the other and fired rand ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study of nearly 2,220 pneumonia patients finds that men who come to the hospital generally are sicker than women, and have a 30 percent higher risk of dying over the next year, despite aggressiv ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The 61st World Health Assembly paid one-minute silence tribute for the victims of the May 12 earthquake in southwest China which has claimed more than 32,000 lives.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Breast cancer patients with lower levels of vitamin D are more likely to have the disease spread or die from it than those with higher levels of the substance, media reported Monday quoting a Canadian study.
The study, to be present ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
GlaxoSmithKline, Europe's biggest drugmaker, has received approval for the world's first wide-spectrum pre-pandemic vaccine against bird flu, according to media reports Monday.
The approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Women who are stressed out during pregnancy may have lasting consequences for their children, media reported Monday quoting researchers as saying at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society in Toronto.
Women stressed about money, ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
A Chicago-based company is voluntarily recalling an "undetermined amount of beef products" distributed in 11 states due to potential E. coli contamination, media reported Monday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Saturday no i ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The Ministry of Health said here Monday no major outbreak of epidemic diseases or other public health threats had been reported in areas hit by the disastrous earthquake.
The ministry said the 1,380-member epidemic diseases preventi ...
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