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Japan braces for bird flu Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 New bird flu case suspected at Japan poultry farm. As fears of a bird flu pandemic ripple across Asia, Japan is bracing itself for a possible secon...

Conjoined twins did not survive Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Doctors delivered the sad news to parents of Colombian conjoined twins: their daughters did not survive their seperation surgery. The four-month ol...

Crash risk higher for cannabis-smoking drivers: study Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 U.S. drivers who tested positive for cannabis over a 10-year period had a 29 per cent higher risk of causing a fatal crash than motorists not takin...

Quebec hospitals struck by gastro outbreak Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Public health officials in Quebec and New Brunswick are fighting what they call one of the worst outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis in years, which...

Canadian doctors test arthroscopic surgery for hips Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 A new type of hip surgery using small, precision tools is helping to get athletes and weekend warriors in their 20s through 40s back on their feet.

Harper targets health-care wait times for children Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday the federal government will spend $2.6 million on a new 15-month national pilot project to improve wait...

Flu Vaccination Urged for 85 Percent of Americans, Affluent Women More Likely to Survive Breast Cancer, Energy Drinks May Cause Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 (September 25, 2008 - Insidermedicine) From Washington - With the flu season approaching, U.

Lettuce "likely" in E. Coli outbreak Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says lettuce is "most likely" responsible for Taco Bell E. Coli outbreak. The Mexican-style chain, a unit of ...

AIDS awareness Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Education is key to combating prejudices about AIDS. That's the view of a top Chinese official who says there's still huge miscon...

Unicef children's report Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 According to 'The State of the World's Children', a new survey carried out by Unicef, children are far more likely to pr...

FDA: Cloned meat safe to eat Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 If given final approval, the ruling would allow the sale of food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats, but not sheep, for the first time in the Unite...

Tories confirm new AIDS funding of $120M Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 The federal government chose World AIDS Day to announce its long-awaited HIV/AIDS initiative package, pledging to spend an extra $120 million this ...

Extend tax credit to non-fitness activities for kids, some urge Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 The federal government's new children's fitness tax credit takes effect Monday, but some critics question whether it will help fi...

Silicone breast implants are back Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Silicone implants were banned in 1992 after some complained the devices leaked and made them chronically ill. Since then, plastic surgeons have us...

Liver sliver breakthrough Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Researchers in the northern city of Newcastle have used umbilical cord stem cells to grow the organ. They hope the technique will eventually be use...

Dystrophy development Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Italian scientists who transfused a specific stem cell type into the bloodstream of dogs with the genetic disease say they found improvements in th...

Baby born with fetus in Chile Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 MORE INFO: Doctors carried out a scan on the boy's mother a week before her delivery and noticed the 4-inch-long fetus inside the boy&...

Stem cells cure blind mice Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 The scientists believe further research could lead to the first human retinal cell transplants for people with blinding diseases within a decade. ...

Ouch - but it works! Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 Chinese sufferers of a host of painful joint conditions and serious diseases are looking to bees to ease their pain. A unique treatment first used ...

First-ever uterus transplant Channel: Voxant Newsroom Length: 0 Date: September 30, 2008 According to doctors there is a fairly large demand for the transplant procedure in humans, mainly from patients who've had hysterectomies...

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