AFP – Zimbabwe’s health minister said Thursday a cholera epidemic had ended, after at more than 4,200 deaths and 100,000 cases since last August, but warned new outbreaks remain a threat.
AFP – With more than 13 million abortions at registered clinics every year, China needs to step up sex education to better inform youth on contraception, state press said Thursday.
Reuters – Outbreaks of the H1N1 flu among children attending U.S. summer camps presage a surge in cases this fall as students return to school, an official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday.
AFP – Zimbabwe’s health minister said Thursday a cholera epidemic had ended, after at least 4,200 people died and 100,000 were infected since last August, but warned new outbreaks remain a threat.
Reuters – Some 13 million abortions are carried out in China each year, in part because there is little education about contraception or disease for the rising numbers of young people who are having sex, state media said on Thursday.
AFP – Zimbabwe’s health minister said Thursday a cholera epidemic had ended, after at least 4,200 people died and 100,000 were infected since last August, but warned new outbreaks remain a threat.
AFP – With more than 13 million abortions at registered clinics every year, China needs to step up sex education to better inform youth on contraception, state press said Thursday.
AFP – Patients with childhood leukemia have elevated levels of household pesticides in their urine, according to a new study by the Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
AP – In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a “vaccine” of live malaria parasites through their bites. The results were astounding: Everyone in the vaccine group acquired immunity to malaria; everyone in a non-vaccinated comparison group did not, and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later.
HealthDay – TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — A British study adds evidence to
support a growing movement to raise the age at which American women should
start Pap screening to detect cervical cancer.