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Reuters Health News: 09-28-2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health insurance premiums for workers are rising around three times faster than their wages, and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14 million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand said on Tuesday it had found its first known probable case of a human being infecting another with bird flu, but insisted it was an isolated incident that posed little risk to the greater population.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nabi Biopharmaceuticals NABI.O on Tuesday said its NicVAX nicotine vaccine showed promise in helping smokers quit smoking in a small clinical trial, sending its shares up 17 percent.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Airborne fungi are increasingly being seen as a risk factor for asthma and now, new research indicates that high levels of such fungi are found in inner city homes with cats, cockroaches, and dampness problems.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A treadmill stress test can predict heart attacks or other serious heart disease even in men without symptoms, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Illicit injection drug users who take part in needle exchange programs are less likely than other injection drug users to engage in drug-related behaviors that increase the risk of HIV transmission, researchers report in the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes.
LONDON (Reuters) - As many as half of the Viagra anti-impotence pills sold on the Internet could be counterfeit, British scientists said on Tuesday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Condoms should not be used to fight HIV/AIDS as they are unchristian and unreliable, according to an influential church in Ethiopia, where 1,000 people are infected daily.
LONDON (Reuters) - British agricultural authorities issued a warning to the public on Tuesday after a bat that eluded the island nation's strict controls tested positive for a strain that can infect humans.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A Thai woman who died of bird flu possibly caught it from her daughter but there was no indication the virus would spread more widely among humans, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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