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Researchers discover people with blood group O are naturally protected from its most severe forms.

Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: The Federal Trade Commission, which has declared war on Internet scams, warned consumers on Monday not to open a bogus e-mail that appears to come from its fraud department because it carries an attachment that can download a virus.

A commission on family planning said the rate of birth defects has increased nearly 50 percent, AP reports here at CNN News: Coal mining regions of northern China are reporting a big increase in levels of defects in newborns, an apparent result of heavy pollution, state media said Monday. The rate of birth defects is […]

The psychiatrist and broadcaster Professor Anthony Clare has died suddenly at the age of 64.

The Chilean government warns pharmacies refusing to sell the morning-after pill they will face stiff sanctions.

Scientists say a strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the US and Europe came from Haiti in about 1969.

CNN Money reports here at their website: ZURICH, Oct. 29, 2007 - Novartis AG said its leukaemia drug Tasigna (nilotinib) has been approved in the US as a new anti-cancer therapy for certain patients with a life-threatening form of leukaemia. The US health regulator approved the drug for treatment of patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic […]

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talks in this Spiegel Interview about German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to India this week, nuclear cooperation with the United States and criticisms of India’s position on Burma.

Scientists say they may be able to make cancer drugs target tumours by using ultra-violet light to activate them.