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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan angrily rejected a New York Times report on Friday that said U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded members of Pakistan's spy agency helped plan the suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this month.

As 600,000 visitors and athletes gear up to travel to China for the 2008 Olympic Games, travelers should be most concerned about respiratory illnesses and dog bites, according to report by an Emory University travelers' health expert, her colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and around the globe. Dog bites in humans can lead to human rabies. The report finds that respiratory illnesses and dog bites are more common than contracting exotic diseases.

AtheroGenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGIX), a pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, announced top-line results from its ANDES Phase 3 clinical trial of AGI-1067 (succinobucol) for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes demonstrating that both doses (75mg and 150mg) of AGI-1067 met the primary efficacy endpoint of the reduction in glycosylated hemoglobin (A1c) versus placebo at the end of the study's six month dosing regimen.

AP - Here's a couch potato's dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat? Scientists reported Thursday that there is such a drug ? if you happen to be a mouse.

As reports filter through that NHS 24 is receiving 50 calls per hour about the remarkable TauRx Therapeutics Ltd trial of RemberT, Scotland must remember the needs of the 62,500 people with dementia for whom a cure may be several years (or more) away.

Reacting to figures obtained by the Conservatives, which show the number of errors relating to poor nutrition in NHS hospitals has almost doubled in two years, Charlotte Potter, Senior Policy Officer at Help the Aged, says: 'A high increase like this might be a result of better reporting of errors, which would be a good thing. If we know more about what's going wrong, we are in a better position to address the problem.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) New preclinical research shows that cannabinoid cell surface receptor CB1 plays a tumor-suppressing role in human colorectal cancer, scientists report in the Aug. 1 edition of the journal Cancer Research.

In recent years, a class of small molecules known as microRNA have been found to play an important role in regulating gene products in most animal and plant species. A new study now indicates that microRNA may influence the development of alcohol tolerance, a hallmark of alcohol abuse and dependence. Researchers supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) report the findings in the July 31 issue of the journal Neuron.

Chronic exposure to estrogen can impair memory, U.S. researchers report.

CHICAGO -- Dementia patients who persistently took medication for the condition had increased median survival by about three years, but it is unknown if the drugs were associated with delayed institutionalization, researchers here reported.