Health

Bill Clinton, Bill Gates unite in foreign aid plea (AFP)

March 11, 2010

AFP - Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria in the world's poorest nations.
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CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP)

AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopp
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Obesity risk

Why extra fat can turn you into a killer behind the wheel
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N.Y. Chef Makes Cheese From Breast Milk

Daniel Angerer is used to getting attention over the food that comes out of his restaurant Klee Brasserie, but the New York chef is making more headlines than ever over a new dish that instead comes out of his fiance's brassiere.
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Brazil's Silva quits smoking after 50 years (AP)

AP - Brazil's president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.
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EU orders filling stations to extract cancerous vapour (AFP)

AFP - Fuel pumps across Europe will have to install new equipment to suck up cancerous vapour that escapes when people fill their tanks, under a new European Union measure adopted on Thursday.
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Invention Lets Pregnant Women 'Hold' Unborn Baby

Pregnant women are being given the chance to hold life-sized models of their unborn babies, thanks to an invention that converts data from ultrasound and MRI scans.
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