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The National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM) welcomes two new members. The Council is the principal advisory body for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), the lead federal agency for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

An 8-year-old New Mexico boy has died and his 10-year-old sister was hospitalized after both contracted bubonic plague, the first recorded human plague cases in the nation so far this year.

All eating disorders create health problems. In some cases, health problems associated with eating disorders are dangerous and even life-threatening.

The cause of Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most frequent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, is unknown, but in most cases it is believed to involve a combination of environmental risk factors and genetic susceptibility.

Following President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the differences between how male and female judges see and rule on cases has come into question, the New York Times reports.

A Republican senator who is also a doctor is calling for a new era of Prohibition - outlawing cigarette smoking and other tobacco use. The unlikely demand comes from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), one of the staunchest free-market conservatives in the Senate. Coburn, one of two doctors in the Senate, is well-aware of the health risks that come with smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco. "What we should be doing is banning tobacco," Coburn said in a recent Senate floor speech he gave during a debate on a tobacco regulation bill. "Nobody up here has the courage to do that. It is a big business. There are millions of Americans who are addicted to nicotine. And even if they are not addicted to the nicotine, they are addicted to the habit." . . . Coburn made his case against the bill because he said it would send a mixed message to the FDA, which is charged with ensuring the safety of food and drugs. Coburn's argument is that there's nothing safe about tobacco and that it would make more

A nationwide vaccination effort in Mozambique helped to slash the number of reported cases of measles in Mozambique in 2008, Health Minister Ivo Garrido said Wednesday when addressing the country's parliament, Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique/allAfrica.com reports.

A combination of measures taken to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunization and child pneumonia case management could reduce total child mortality worldwide by 17 percent and global pneumonia deaths by more than 90 percent, according to a study published in the June issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization,

U.N. Agencies, NGOs Appeal For $37M For IDPs In Pakistan The WHO, UNICEF, the U.N. Population Fund and 19 NGOs have appealed for $37 million to provide 'life-saving healthcare' for more than three million internally displaced people currently residing in temporary camps in northwest Pakistan, the International News reports.

'If Sonia Sotomayor is a radical activist eager to push the law leftward or to rule according to personal whims rather than constitutional commands, she's done an impressive job of hiding it all these years,' Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus writes, adding that the 'amazing thing about the case against Sotomayor is how thin it is.