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Reuters Health News: 01-20-2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 15,000 Americans get sick from carbon monoxide every year and the odorless, toxic gas kills 480 people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Companies around the world are falling behind in the fight against AIDS, leaving a "black hole" in education and healthcare, experts said on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Six months after spraining an ankle, overweight and obese children are more likely than their peers to still have pain, swelling or weakness, new study findings indicate.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - What does the Roman Catholic Church really think about the use of condoms to fight AIDS? It seems to depend on who is doing the talking.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Women who enjoy a drink of beer or wine daily have sharper minds into old age than women who abstain, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has found for the second time in recent months that water from a sampling of commercial aircraft galleys and bathrooms was not safe for use, regulators said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans than ever before are surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday it is in talks to acquire a private biotechnology company called Angiosyn Inc., which is developing a drug for macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim said on Thursday it expects no impact on its AIDS drug donation program for poor countries from a U.S. regulatory warning that its Viramune medicine could cause deadly liver damage.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The bird flu virus endemic in Asia appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor the start of a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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