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| HIV, hepatitis tests urged for 7,000 Oklahoma dental patients Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 08:24 AM PDT By Steve Olafson OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A Tulsa, Oklahoma, health center on Saturday began drawing blood samples from patients who may have been exposed to viruses at an oral surgery dental clinic that is under investigation. As many as 7,000 of Dr. W. Scott Harrington's patients are being notified by letter that health officials recommend they be tested for hepatitis and HIV. The investigation began when one of Harrington's patients tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis C. ... Full Story | Top |
| S.Africa's Mandela "comfortable", treated for pneumonia Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 07:37 AM PDT  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is comfortable and able to breathe without problems as he continues to respond to treatment in hospital for a recurrence of pneumonia, President Jacob Zuma's office said on Saturday. After the revered 94-year-old statesman and former South African president spent a third night in hospital, the presidency said doctors had drained excess fluid from his lungs to tackle the infection. "This has resulted in him now being able to breathe without difficulty. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nelson Mandela "comfortable", treated for pneumonia Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 07:12 AM PDT  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is comfortable and able to breathe without problems as he continues to respond to treatment in hospital for a recurrence of pneumonia, President Jacob Zuma's office said on Saturday. After the revered 94-year-old statesman and former South African president spent a third night in hospital, the presidency said doctors had drained excess fluid from his lungs to tackle the infection. "This has resulted in him now being able to breathe without difficulty. ... Full Story | Top |
| Saudi Arabia to allow women's sports clubs - paper Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 05:53 AM PDT RIYADH, March 30 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is to license women's sports clubs for the first time, al-Watan daily reported, in a major step for an ultra-religious country where clerics have warned against female exercise. Last year the conservative Islamic kingdom, where women must have permission from a male relative to take many big decisions, sent women athletes to the Olympics for the first time after pressure from international rights groups. Until now, women's exercise facilities, including gyms, have had to be licensed by the Health Ministry and designated as "health centres". ... Full Story | Top |
| E. coli outbreak sickens 24 in U.S.: CDC Friday, Mar 29, 2013 05:58 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. outbreak of E. coli has sickened 24 people, with Farm Rich frozen food suspected as a likely source of the infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli O121, or STEC O121, has been reported in 15 states, the CDC said in a statement. New York state health officials found the strain in an open package of Farm Rich brand frozen chicken quesadillas from an ill person's home, the CDC said. Rich Products Corp. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. to reexamine health effects of cellphone radio waves Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:16 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are looking into how radio frequencies emitted by cellphones and other wireless devices affect people amid lingering concerns about the risks of cellphone radiation. The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it is seeking comment from other agencies and health experts on whether it should update its standards limiting exposure to phones' electromagnetic fields, as they apply to children in particular. The FCC last reviewed those standards in 1996, before the ubiquitous use of mobile devices. ... Full Story | Top |
| Autism risk not increased by early vaccines: study Friday, Mar 29, 2013 01:21 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is no link between receiving a number of vaccines early in life and autism, researchers said on Friday. In a study slated to appear in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers said there is no association between receiving "too many vaccines too soon" and autism, despite some fears among parents around the number of vaccines given both on a single day and over the first 2 years of life. As many as one in 50 U.S. school-age children have been diagnosed with autism, up 72 percent since 2007. ... Full Story | Top |
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