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Today's Reuters Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News: China confident it can control bird flu outbreak Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive Experts triple estimate of world dengue fever infections Expatriates apprehensive over Saudi Arabia labor crackdown To crack human brain's code, a search for visionaries First magic mushroom depression trial hits stumbling block Kansas set to enact life-starts-"at fertilization" abortion law

China confident it can control bird flu outbreak  Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 12:09 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China is confident it can control an outbreak of a new strain of bird flu, a senior Chinese health official said on Sunday as the World Health Organization (WHO) said there had now been 21 human cases of the H7N9 flu with six deaths. China has said it is mobilizing resources nationwide to combat the new strain, monitoring hundreds of close contacts of confirmed cases and culling tens of thousands of birds where traces of the virus were found. ... Full Story	Top
Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive  Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 11:44 AM PDT By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarmly, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week. Graham said that while he believes President Barack Obama's plan is overall bad for the economy, "there are nuggets of his budget that I think are optimistic," and that could set the stage for a broad bargain to put the nation's finances on a stronger footing. He was speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. ... Full Story	Top
Experts triple estimate of world dengue fever infections  Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 10:10 AM PDT By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Around 390 million people are infected each year with dengue fever - the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease - more than triple the current estimate by the World Health Organization, experts said on Sunday. The new finding, based on several years of analysis, underscores the growing burden of the mosquito-borne viral disease, which is also called "breakbone fever" because of the severe pain it can cause. There is as yet no approved vaccine or specific drug to treat dengue, which is not normally fatal but lands many victims in hospital. ... Full Story	Top
Expatriates apprehensive over Saudi Arabia labor crackdown  Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 09:18 AM PDT By Marwa Rashad RIYADH (Reuters) - Like many expatriates in Saudi Arabia, Umm Hajar, a 30-year-old Moroccan beautician, stopped going to work two weeks ago fearful of government inspectors checking her residency status. She has lived in the capital Riyadh with her Egyptian husband for two years, but while they both have residence permits, they are in breach of official regulations because they are not sponsored by their employers. ... Full Story	Top
To crack human brain's code, a search for visionaries  Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 08:08 AM PDT By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To crack the code of the human brain, Cori Bargmann figures it's best to keep an open mind. As one of two leaders of a scientific "dream team" in the initial phase of President Barack Obama's ambitious $100 million project to map the brain, Bargmann said the first step is to find the right combination of people to set research priorities. "You might start with people who are very senior and are household words in their fields, and then you may realize that what (you) actually need is the young Turk who's a visionary wild man," Bargmann said. ... Full Story	Top
First magic mushroom depression trial hits stumbling block  Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 03:44 AM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The world's first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled because of British and European rules on the use of illegal drugs in research. David Nutt, president of the British Neuroscience Association and professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, said he had been granted an ethical green light and funding for the trial, but regulations were blocking it. ... Full Story	Top
Kansas set to enact life-starts-"at fertilization" abortion law  Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 02:13 PM PDT By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas is set to enact one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation which defines life as beginning "at fertilization" and imposes a host of new regulations. The Kansas House of Representatives passed the bill 90-30 on Friday night, a few hours after the Senate backed it on a 28-10 vote. Strongly anti-abortion Republican Governor Sam Brownback is expected to sign it into law. Republicans hold strong majorities in both houses. ... Full Story	Top

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