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Reuters Health News: 02-23-2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists fear the avian flu that has killed 46 people in Asia could be the strain that will cause the next global pandemic but said more evidence is needed about how infectious it is in humans.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - For years, Clarisse Tangkwano had no idea mosquitoes spread malaria.
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - The world is overdue an influenza pandemic and it must act swiftly to prevent one being triggered by bird flu now endemic in parts of Asia where it has killed 46 people, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - In the fight against Asia's bird flu, experts are zeroing in on ducks and the role they play in the spread of the deadly disease.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Wednesday China has made progress in fighting AIDS since he last visited in 2003 and his foundation would give drugs and help train doctors battling the disease.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of U.S. parents talking to their teenagers about drugs has dropped, perhaps reflecting the more relaxed attitudes of a generation that came of age in the late 1970s when U.S. teen drug use peaked, a study on Tuesday found.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bipolar disorder may often go undiagnosed and untreated in the urban poor, with one in 10 found to have the mental illness in a study of one New York clinic published on Tuesday.
CLEARWATER, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida court ordered on Tuesday that a severely brain-damaged woman must continue to be fed, shortly after an appeals court said her husband could remove the feeding tube that has kept her alive since 1990.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking a continuous-care approach to treating people with depression leads to improved outcomes and saves on costs, according to a new report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sending heart surgery patients home with a prescription for statin drugs, such as Lipitor or Zocor, seems to increase the use of these cholesterol-lowering medications, according to a report in the medical journal Chest.
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