08.31.08

Belgian nuclear facility leak residents to get medical tests

Posted in Health at 12:36 pm by heaven

Brussels - A week after a leak from a nearby nuclear facility, residents of Lambusart village near the Belgian town of Fleurus were told Sunday they will be given medical tests, starting with children and pregnant women. The aim was to restore full ...

08.30.08

Singapore doctor says he was cleared in illegal organ-buying case

Posted in Health at 8:01 am by heaven

Singapore - The head of a transplant society in Singapore said he has been cleared in a scheme to illegally buy a kidney and continues to practise medicine. The authorities have investigated the case, and I have not been implicated, Dr Lye Wai Choo...

08.29.08

Radioactive food alert raised in Belgium

Posted in Health at 2:37 pm by heaven

Brussels - Residents of the Belgian town of Fleurus have been told not to consume locally-produced vegetables and dairy products following a leak of radioactive iodine at a nearby nuclear facility, Belgian media reported Friday. The interior ministry...

Germans face higher health costs as doctors get 10-per-cent hike

Posted in Health at 2:10 pm by heaven

Berlin - Health insurance premiums for the vast majority of Germans would rise noticeably after doctors secured a rise in fees averaging more than 10 per cent for 2009, insurers warned Friday. Contributions to the roughly 250 state-regulated health i...

08.28.08

Baby Kiron dies after struggle for life in Bangladesh

Posted in Health at 4:48 pm by heaven

Dhaka - After more than two days of a bitter life and death struggle in a small hospital in western Bangladesh, a double-headed baby boy died Thursday as crowds of grief-stricken people waited outside. Witnesses said many in the crowd went hysteric w...

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