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The ACT government is being urged to follow New South Wales in banning smoking in cars carrying children. The NSW government is introducing $250 on-the-spot fines for those caught smoking while in a ...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has left Serbia and will soon be in the custody of the U.N. war crimes court at The Hague, Serbian government sources said on Wednesday.

AP - A government advisory panel Tuesday recommended approval of the drug Actemra, promoted as a new type of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling swelling of the joints generally kept in check with medication.

AP - Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women, according to new government research.

New South Wales is set to be the first state to ban the display of cigarettes behind shop counters with the introduction of the nation's toughest tobacco laws. The State government has announced new ...

Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus Tuesday sealed a law that seeks to soften direct health care fees on patients which were introduced in January as part of the government's public finance reform, Klaus' office said. The signed law abolishes charg...

A group representing British pub operators says beer sales in the pubs are at their lowest level since the Depression, and both the general state of the economy and government tax policies are partly responsible.

WASHINGTON -- A government advisory panel Tuesday recommended approval of the drug Actemra, promoted as a new type of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling swelling of the joints generally kept in check with medication.

The monthly rate of complaints from Medicare beneficiaries about the prescription drug benefit decreased by 74% during the 18-month period that ended on Oct. 31, 2007, according to a report recently released by the government Accountability Office, the AP/Las Vegas Sun reports. For the report, GAO examined almost 630,000 complaints filed with CMS during the review period.read more

Kenya's HIV and Aids prevalence rate has increased to nearly eight per cent, according to a new study to be released TuesdayJust when Kenyans were beginning to celebrate last year's announcement that the prevalence rate had dropped to 5.1 per cent, the government is expected to announce that the rate is actually higher.Based on a new study conducted last year, the findings show HIV prevalence to be higher than last year's 5.1 per cent and the 6.7 per cent captured by a 2003 Kenya Demographic and health Survey.read more