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Babies   Health   Newborn   Photos   Washington
 Houston Chronicle 
Ethics debate over blood from newborn safety tests
WASHINGTON - A critical safety net for babies - that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn - is facing an ethics attack. After those tiny blood spots are tested for a list of devastating... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Grocery Bags - Used Plastic Bags
Consumers   Environment   Photos   Plastic   Standards
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UL Environment to Develop Sustainability Standards For Plastic
Posted on: Monday, 8 February 2010, 10:04 CST NORTHBROOK, Ill., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- UL Environment, Inc. (ULE), a global leader in environmental evaluation and certification, announces a... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Geriatric - osteoporosis - asian elderly - senior citizen  The Telegraph India 
Cure hope for osteoporosis
New Delhi, Feb 08: Indian and American scientists have discovered a new medical strategy to combat osteoporosis, raising hopes of a daily pill to prevent and even reverse this chronic disease of bone... (photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub)
Delhi   Health   Osteoporosis   Photos   Women
Jogging - Exercise - Health  Mumbai Mirror 
Health assets
So you think health has no short-cuts. Of course, maintaining a fit mind and body requires time, but nothing that you can't accommodate in your busy date diary. Simply beacuse these small investments... (photo: WN / sweet)
Assets   Body   Health   Mind   Photos
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** FILE ** Exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, seen in a March 16, 2003 file photo. IRINnews
EGYPT: Controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO
web Photo: COFS CAIRO, 7 February 2010 (IRIN) - A controversial organ transplant bill expected to become law in the next few weeks could regularize organ transplants and... (photo: AP / Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini)

Crimes   Egypt   Health   Photos   Society
Studies show drug resistance occurring in other Mekong regions, Myanmar IRINnews
MYANMAR: WHO warns of tolerance to anti-malaria drug
web YANGON, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - Tolerance to artemisinin, the most effective anti-malarial drug available, is emerging in Myanmar and could pose a major challenge to... (photo: IRIN news / Wikimedia Commons)
Asia   Health   Malaria   Myanmar   Photos
Cigarette -Tobacco Malaya
Smoking most preventable cancer cause: WHO
AS the world celebrates the annual Cancer Day today, the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday identified smoking as one cause of cancer that could be easily avoided.... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Cancer   Diet   Health   Photos   Smoking
Smoker cigarette National Post
Quitting smoking could halve US heart deaths: WHO
AFPFebruary 3, 2010 12:03 PM Half of the 400,000 deaths from coronary heart disease predicted in the United States in 2010 could be avoided if people ate healthier food... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Cardiovascular   Disease   Photos   Smoker   Tobacco
Haitians plead for a sack of rice during a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Program and Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti charity in Bel-Air, a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 8, 2006. Yele Haiti and World Food program distributed rice, beans and oil twice at month, feeding around 8000 people per month in the Haitian capital The New York Times
Amid Disaster, Haiti Welcomes Back Those Who Left
MIAMI - Since leaving Haiti in 1974 and becoming a successful engineer here, Fritz Armand has often felt that his skills were unwelcome in his native country. His efforts... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos)
Disaster   Haiti   People   Photos   Politics
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