Test links smoking to ovarian failure
Women who smoke cigarettes inhale a toxin that can trigger ovarian failure, significantly decreasing their reproductive years, scientists said in the first study confirming a long suspected link
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Legionnaires disease breaks out in Spain
More than 100 people are feared to have contracted Legionnaires' disease in a city in southeastern Spain, officials
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Selling an illness helps pharmaceutical giant peddle its pill
To judge by press reports, two years ago, Americans began to be afflicted by a little-known malady called social anxiety disorder. Psychiatrists and patient advocates appeared on television and in
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Bush asks big lenders to increase aid for poor
President George W. Bush proposed that the big, multinational lending institutions do far more for the health and education of people in the world's poorest countries, and with far fewer strings
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3 airlines sued over blood clots
Lawyers for three people who say they suffered potentially fatal blood clots during long flights filed damages against three international airlines and Australia's civil aviation
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EU proposes speeding process for drug approvals
The European Commission is proposing faster regulatory approval for drugs and may relax a ban on advertising in Europe's $80 billion pharmaceutical market, a spokesman said.
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The poverty summit
The Bush Administration declares that the theme of the G-8 summit is poverty allevation. This theme, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice explains, is "an extension in many ways of the
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Critics assail report on smoking as good for a government's budget
The tobacco giant Philip Morris was flayed for an economic analysis that concluded that smoking was good for government coffers because it caused people to die prematurely, thereby saving pensions
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Legionnaires' hits 300 in Spanish city
The most extensive outbreak of Legionnaire's disease ever recorded has struck a city in southern Spain, claiming two
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Fever in New Caledonia
Health authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia warned citizens to watch for symptoms of dengue fever after nine cases of the disease were discovered on the island.