Rwandan bill would lead to forced sterilization: rights group (AFP)
AFP - A US-based rights group on Wednesday urged Rwanda to revise a draft law which it said would introduce compulsory HIV testing and require all people with mental disabilities to be sterilized.
Source:Rwandan bill would lead to forced sterilization: rights group
(AFP)
New Weapons in Fight Against TB? (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) — Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis
might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson’s
disease, suggests a new study.Source:New Weapons in Fight Against TB?
(HealthDay)
Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer (AP)
AP - In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.Source:Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer
(AP)
New Drug Could Work Against Leukemia (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) — A new targeted therapy shows
promise in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a highly treatment-resistant
blood cancer, according to a new study.Source:New Drug Could Work Against Leukemia
(HealthDay)
Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR (AP)
AP - You don’t have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes.Source:Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR
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