China's Health Ministry said six babies may have died after consuming tainted milk powder, up from a previous official toll of three, and announced a six-fold increase in its tally of infants sickened in the scandal - to nearly 300,000. Children’s Health |
 | As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs. AIDS |
A patient who receives an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICDs) after a heart attack is more than twice as likely to die within five years from sheer anxiety over their heart condition, according to a team of German scientists. Heart |
Governments across the globe pledged Monday to step up the fight against HIV, combating the stigma associated with the disease and promising to bankroll treatment programmes on World AIDS Day. AIDS |
Iran said Monday that the country has registered more than 18,000 HIV-positive citizens and is worried that number could rise in a rare government disclosure about the AIDS causing virus. AIDS |
People who take medications for geriatric afflictions should beware of possible interactions among them, warned the Berlin-based independent consumer-protection group Stiftung Warentest. Medicine |
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged the world on Monday to help end a “man-made” humanitarian crisis which has left hundreds of people dead in a cholera epidemic. Infectious Diseases |
An anthrax outbreak has killed three people and threatens to wipe out livestock in northern Zimbabwe, compounding the nation’s struggle against cholera which has killed hundreds, a charity said Monday. Infectious Diseases |
Authorities around the world are winning battles against online child pornography and soliciting, but the war goes on as offenders burrow deeper into cyber hiding places and technology raises new dangers. Children’s Health |
A Cologne-based dental health initiative recommends brushing the tongue as well as the teeth twice a day because bacteria, which cause bad breath, also collect on the tongue. Oral Hygiene |
