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Researchers are emphasizing the importance of a new government report that they say demonstrates for the first time a causal link between tobacco use in movies and smoking behaviors in the population.

Hong Kong- A 7-year-old girl has become the third child to die of a mystery illness in Hong Kong, government officials said Friday. The girl, who was admitted to hospital on August 8 with encephalitis or brain inflammation, died Friday. ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully made stem cells from wisdom teeth, creating an alternative source of pluripotent cells for researching and treating disease and avoiding the ethical problems surrounding the use of embryonic stem cells. Scientists at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, which is funded by the government, said they used wisdom teeth that had been frozen for three years after being removed from a 10 year old girl.

Four out of every 10 people living with HIV in Uganda do not have access to drugs that would keep them alive and healthy and the country is losing the fight against the epidemic, a senior government official ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly three years into the Medicare drug benefit, federal officials have yet to ensure that private drug plans enacted programs to deter fraud and abuse, government investigators say....

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's governing coalition was due to hold make-or-break talks on Friday to save the alliance between the country's two main parties, as concern grew that squabbling was keeping them from tackling critical problems.

The National cancer Institute (NCI) has released a report, co-edited by University of Minnesota professor Barbara Loken, that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking in movies promote youth smoking.

By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.The report by the National cancer Institute found the tobacco industry spent more than $13 billion on smoking-related advertising and promotion in 2005. These efforts boosted overall tobacco use, contradicting industry claims that they are intended to build brand loyalty.'This is the first government report to present definitive conclusions that, number one, tobacco advertising and promotion are causally related to increased tobacco use in the population,' said Dr. Ronald Davis, senior scientific editor of the report and past president of the American Medical Association.

A government report released 'Five Years On - Delivering the diabetes National Service Framework' has analysed progress of the government's 10-year diabetes plan, published in 2003. 'The NHS has responded impressively to the first five years of the national service framework [the government diabetes plan]. More and more people with diabetes are getting good routine care,' said National Clinical Director for diabetes, Dr Rowan Hillson MBE.

Singapore - Appeals from parents-to-be have prompted the Singapore government to bring forward the starting date for an onslaught of new perks aimed at convincing couples to have more babies, authorities said Friday. Instead of January 1, 2008, the b...