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Archive for February 1st, 2008
Safe sex the message as Rio launches into Carnival (Reuters)
Reuters - Wearing nuns’ veils,
condom-shaped hats and all kinds of silly headgear, Brazilians
partied in the beer-slicked streets of Rio de Janeiro on Friday
as its Carnival started in earnest.
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Posted: February 1st, 2008 under NEWS.
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Obese patients wait longer for kidney transplants (Reuters)
Reuters - Extremely obese adults in need
of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ
than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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Posted: February 1st, 2008 under NEWS.
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Sarkozy unveils plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease (AFP)
AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday unveiled a five-year plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease that afflicts 860,000 elderly people in France.
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WHO reports Tamiflu-resistant flu in U.S., Canada (Reuters)
Reuters - The main seasonal flu virus in the
United States and Canada as well as parts of Europe shows
higher resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu, raising
questions about its potential effectiveness in a human bird flu
pandemic.
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Posted: February 1st, 2008 under NEWS.
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Health workers quarantined in Indian bird flu state (AFP)
AFP - A health worker in an Indian state was put in isolation and hundreds of others who had slaughtered chickens to stem an outbreak of bird flu were being monitored, an official said Friday.
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Posted: February 1st, 2008 under NEWS.
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