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A man is in critical condition after testing positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, state media said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-chinese-critical-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:01 EST news244477314 The US Food and Drug Administration warned a French maker of breast implants now feared to be at risk of rupture of "serious" quality control violations involving saline implants back in 2000. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-french-implant-maker.html Other Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:53:46 EST news244255976 France took a costly and unprecedented leap Friday in offering to pay for 30,000 women to have their breast implants removed because of mounting fears the products could rupture and leak cheap, industrial-grade silicone into the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-risky-breast-implants_1.html Other Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:42:41 EST news243927714 (AP) -- Tens of thousands of women with risky, French-made breast implants should have them removed at the state's expense, the health minister recommended Friday, adding that such removals were "preventive" and not urgent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-risky-breast-implants.html Other Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:13:18 EST news243835967 (AP) -- Italy's health ministry on Thursday asked hospitals to track down women who received silicone breast implants made by a suspect French company due to concerns the implants may be unsafe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-italy-women-french-breast-implants.html Other Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:26:24 EST news243800775 French authorities are to issue an expert report on Friday saying whether the implants, produced by the now-bankrupt Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) company, should be removed after several suspicious cancer cases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-uk-women-urged-panic-breast.html Health Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:32:02 EST news243682315 Up to 30,000 French women and perhaps tens of thousands more around the world may need to have defective breast implants removed after several suspicious cancer cases, officials said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-women-implants.html Cancer Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:10:02 EST news243597626 (AP) -- U.S. health authorities say the final death toll from an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is 30. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-toll-melon-listeria-outbreak-dead.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:59:56 EST news242621984 US health authorities on Thursday urged a 12-week drug regimen for people with latent tuberculosis as an effective alternative to the current nine-month regimen which many people do not finish. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-urges-shorter-treatment-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:09:46 EST news242572175 Scientists from the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) have discovered that an antigen common to most influenza viruses, and commonly referred to as matrix protein 2 (M2), when administered under the tongue could protect mice against experimental infection caused by various influenza viruses, including the highly pathogenic avian H5 virus and the pandemic H1 ("swine flu") virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-results-mice-needle-free-candidate-universal.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:22:16 EST news242562123 (AP) -- China will have about 780,000 people infected with the AIDS virus by the end of this year, state media reported Wednesday, with most having contracted it through heterosexual sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-china-hiv-cases-year.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:49:15 EST news241850947 Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brazil-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:01 EST news241755032 Health authorities in south China said Friday they were investigating a hospital medical team for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-china-hospital-disposes-baby.html Other Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:03:30 EST news239637792 Taiwan moved Thursday to curb eating contests, a fad that has caused at least one death, and suggested the national health insurance stop paying for participants seeking medical treatment afterwards. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-taiwan-curb-big-stomach-contests.html Health Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:58:23 EST news239518693 The death toll in an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe has reached 29 after federal health authorities say an eighth person has died in Colorado. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-29th-person-dies-cantaloupe-listeria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:42:28 EST news239517741 A dirty packing facility at a Colorado farm was the likely source of an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupes that killed 25 people in the US since August, health authorities said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-killer-cantaloupes-infected.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:47:47 EST news238247259 Cases of heart disease in the United States have declined in the last several years, down to six percent of the population in 2010 compared to 6.7 percent in 2006, health authorities said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-heart-disease-decline.html Cardiology Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:27:27 EST news237731234 An outbreak of listeria in farm-grown cantaloupes has killed 23 people and sickened 116 more in the United States since late July, health authorities said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-death-toll-cantaloupe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:10:31 EST news237658223 Lung cancer patients could receive safer and more efficient treatment through a system being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-inhaler-treatment-lung-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:10:36 EST news237553828 (AP) -- Bill Marler updates his many blogs each day about the latest foodborne illness outbreak and travels the world delivering speeches, imploring the food industry to improve its safety measures. All this while working the phones to get money for the victims. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-listeria-outbreak-seattle-lawyer.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:47:27 EST news237311237 A cholera epidemic in the Central African Republic has claimed 16 victims, a health ministry spokesman said Saturday, as another source said it had reached the capital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cholera-epidemic-central-african-republic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:46:34 EST news237311157 (AP) -- Federal health authorities say a nationwide outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is now responsible for 21 deaths and the number may continue to grow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-deaths-linked-listeria-cantaloupe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:25:44 EST news237223534 Eighteen people have died and 100 people have fallen ill since late July in the United States from eating cantaloupes infected with listeria, health authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-infected-cantaloupes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:30:30 EST news236968219 The stroke rate among Manitoba Metis is nearly 25 percent higher than for other Manitobans, according to a study by the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-percent-higher-metis.html Health Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:47:18 EST news236922430 (AP) -- Health officials say as many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cantaloupe-outbreak-deadliest-decade.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:50:01 EST news236454262 Cantaloupes grown in the US state of Colorado have been linked to a outbreak of listeria monocytogenes that has killed 13 people and infected dozens more, US health authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-killer-cantaloupes-dead.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:08:53 EST news236401719 Results from the SCAAR study, presented at the ESC Congress 2011 today, showed that Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) with "new generation" Drug Eluting Stents, was associated with a 38% lower risk of clinically meaningful restenosis and a 50% lower risk of stent thrombosis compared to old generation DES. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-considerably-stent-thrombosis-restenosis-drug-eluting.html Cardiology Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:35:54 EST news233922895 Taiwan's health authorities said Sunday they are investigating a case of "critical medical negligence" that led to five patients receiving organs from an HIV positive donor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-taiwan-probing-hiv-transplant.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:34:44 EST news233753657 Reducing the risks of catching E. coli O157 in the countryside is everyone's problem. That means we should all take responsibility - individual residents and visitors, as well as farmers and government - according to researchers working on the Research Councils UK Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-coli-countryside-problem.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:06:54 EST news233481948 Elsevier, the world's leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that the Saudi Ministry of Health has published its 2011 health conditions for travelers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). The publication, published in the August Issue of Journal of Infection and Public Health (JIPH), informs visitors of the full requirements for entry into Saudi Arabia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-health-conditions-mecca-hajj-pilgrimage.html Health Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:52:44 EST news233311944