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A 2-year-old girl in northern China is in critical condition after testing positive for bird flu, state media said Sunday. It is China's second confirmed case of the virus this month.

A 2-year-old girl in northern China has tested positive for bird flu and is in critical condition - the second case of human infection in a month.

Beijing - A two-year-old girl has been infected with bird fly and is in a critical condition in China's northern Shanxi province, a health official of the provincial government confirmed Sunday, according to a report by the Chinese Xinhua news agency...

Beijing - A two-year-old girl has been infected with bird fly and is in a critical condition in China's northern Shanxi province, a health official of the provincial government confirmed Sunday, according to a report by the Chinese Xinhua news agency...

Bangkok - Government officials accounted for 3 per cent of HIV/AIDS patients to receive treatment in Thailand over the past 24 years, health officials revealed Sunday. Public Health spokesman Suphan Srithamma said that since HIV/AIDS was first detect...

Health officials urged consumers to avoid eating cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods that contain peanut butter until they can learn more about an outbreak of salmonella contamination.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials Thursday pledged a new, open process for approving drugs and foods from genetically engineered animals....

IntroductionCommon variants that alter the risk of breast cancer are being discovered. Here, we determine how these variants influence breast cancer prognosis, risk, and tumour characteristics.Methods:We selected 1001 women with early onset non-familial invasive breast cancer from the Prospective study of Outcomes in Sporadic versus Hereditary breast cancer (POSH) cohort and genotyped 206 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across 30 candidate genes. After quality control, 899 cases and 133 SNPs remained. Survival analyses were used to identify SNPs associated with prognosis and to determine their interdependency with recognised prognostic factors. To identify SNPs that alter the risk of breast cancer, association tests were used to compare cases with controls from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. To search for SNPs affecting tumour biology, cases were stratified into subgroups according to oestrogen receptor (ER) status and grade and tested for association.Results:We

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Space shuttle science may soon come to an eye doctor near you: Researchers are using a NASA gadget to finally tell if a cataract is brewing before someone's vision clouds over....

Kathmandu - The Nepalese government Sunday said it had begun culling thousands of birds including poultry following the discovery of bird flu in chicken in the eastern part of the country. Government officials said teams of specialists were mobilised...