User:Stevenfruitsmaak/Health
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Obesity[edit]
- Experts: obesity is a bigger threat than AIDS or bird flu
- Vaccine targets obesity in rats
- Americans are getting fatter, not-for-profit's report finds
- Soft drink companies to stop high school soda sales
- Australians need bigger toilets
- Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control
- British white paper on public health
- Czech pub food eating experiment resulted in lost weight, lower cholesterol
- Soft drink foes cheer victory, lament remaining junk foods in schools
Cancer[edit]
- Gene therapy trial for skin cancer cures two terminal patients
- Controversial cancer test gains support
- Lancet cancer study a hoax
- Altered HIV a potential cancer treatment?
- Many still believe myths associated with cancer, reports American Cancer Society study
- Red and processed meats linked to bowel cancer
- Gene switch turns stem cells into cancer killers
- Study: Children who socialise more, get cancer less
- Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer
- Food with cancer-causing dye recalled in Britain
- Australia to subsidise Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer
AIDS[edit]
- AIDS 'super bug' diagnosed in New York
- AIDS Conference: Clinton and Gates defend Bush program
- Abbott labs ends dispute with Brazilian government over AIDS drug
Infectious disease[edit]
- "Aggressive" Bird Flu found in Sweden
- "No H5N1 virus" found in blood tests of suspected human Bird Flu cluster
- 186,000 cases of chikungunya in Réunion
- 8th case of mad cow disease found in Canada
- 96 dead of Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola
- Agriculture Department investigating possible U.S. case of mad cow disease
- Angola: Marburg virus still spreading, 180 dead
- Angolan Marburg virus still threat
- Anthrax scare closes Michigan newspaper office
- Australian bird flu vaccine trial results "promising"
- Avian Flu is confirmed in Egypt
- Avian flu cause of Egyptian woman's death
- Avian flu found in eastern Canada
- Avian flu found within UK
Mental health[edit]
- "Junk" foods may affect aggressive behaviour and school performance
- Australian PM announces $1.8 billion mental health plan
- Australian researchers confirm stress makes you sick