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Reuters Health News: 02-13-2006
ENOOMBARBALI, Kenya (Reuters) - In Kenya's Maasailand, the war of love requires a weapon more potent than the chocolates or red roses that bombard sweethearts the world over on Valentine's Day.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - With thousands of Mardi Gras revelers starting to descend on New Orleans this week, officials fear the city's hurricane-ravaged health care system could be swamped by drunken, accident-prone party-goers.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Why proffer roses or chocolate when you can serve up the perfect face for your sweetheart this Valentine's Day?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Several years after participating in a clinical trial of intensive diabetes therapy, patients assigned this treatment still showed improvements in neuropathy symptoms, according to a report Diabetes Care.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sydney with its golden beaches and harbor is routinely ranked one of the world's most livable cities, but a happiness survey has found it is home to Australia's saddest people.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Hortense Muadi has heard about bird flu on the radio and knows it can kill.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Sunday issued its first detailed regulations on AIDS, banning discrimination against sufferers and requiring regional authorities to provide free testing and treatment.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger, where nearly one in three people went hungry last year after drought and locusts hit rural areas, launched a programme on Saturday to help 15,200 acutely malnourished children in the capital Niamey.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivia's foreign minister says coca leaves, the raw material for cocaine, are so nutritious they should be included on school breakfast menus.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More and more U.S. cities are switching their garbage trucks from smog-generating diesel to cleaner natural gas, according to a report released by environmental group INFORM on Monday.
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