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A six-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, in the country's second fatality from the virus this year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cambodian-girl-dies-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:45:01 EST news252578599 Ten years after they became the first countries to legalise euthanasia, the Netherlands and Belgium now provide assisted suicide to 4,000 people a year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dutch-belgians-decade-mercy.html Health Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:10:02 EST news252313066 A 17-year old construction worker has died of bird flu on Indonesia's Lombok island, the sixth death from the virulent disease this year, a health ministry official said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bird-flu-sixth-victim-year.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:25:42 EST news252041134 Twelve people have died from swine flu in India since the beginning of March and nearly 110 others have been infected with the virus, the country's health ministry said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-swine-flu-outbreak-india-govt.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:11:30 EST news251712684 A 24-year-old woman has died of bird flu on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the fifth human death from the virus this year, a health ministry official said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bird-flu-victim-year-indonesia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:32:17 EST news250317089 A 12-year-old boy on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has died from bird flu, the fourth human death from the virus this year, an official said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-indonesia-fourth-bird-flu-death.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:08:37 EST news249397706 An outbreak of Lassa fever has killed 40 people and infected dozens of others in a third of Nigeria's 36 states over the past six weeks, a senior health official said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-lassa-fever-nigeria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:55:34 EST news249119711 Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-big-outbreak-child-virus-vietnam.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:29 EST news249043498 Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bird-flu-victim-year-indonesia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:10:01 EST news249029944 Top Russian psychiatrists on Friday called for urgent measures to battle the soaring teenage suicide rate, one of the world's highest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-russia-alarm-spiralling-teenage-suicides.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:01 EST news248089268 Suriname health authorities confirmed Wednesday that a dengue epidemic has taken hold here, resulting in numerous of people being hospitalized over the past month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-suriname-dengue-epidemic-health-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:57:10 EST news246718617 The death toll in Mexico from an outbreak of A(H1N1) swine flu has hit nine, with 573 cases detected, officials said Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mexico-toll-ah1n1-swine-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:18:58 EST news246514727 (AP) -- China on Sunday reported its second bird flu fatality in a month following deaths last week in Vietnam and Cambodia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-china-bird-flu-death-month.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:11:07 EST news246453051 Brazil's Silimed, the third-biggest manufacturer of silicon breast implants in the world, has suddenly found itself in the eye of a global firestorm. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-brazil-implant-maker-eye-global.html Other Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:04:45 EST news246348263 Indonesia on Friday reported its second human death from bird flu this year, with the death of a five-year-old girl who recently lost her relative to the deadly virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-indonesia-bird-flu-death-year.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:40:02 EST news246254824 Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged insurgents Tuesday to allow health teams to vaccinate children in war-torn parts of the country where cases of polio have risen sharply. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-afghan-polio-cases-govt-appeals.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:53:18 EST news246005589 (AP) -- The sale of Dutch-branded breast implants made by a French company at the center of an international scandal has been banned in Latin America's biggest country, Brazil's health ministry said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-brazil-sale-dutch-breast-implants.html Other Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:40:41 EST news245522435 A 24-year-old Indonesian man infected with bird flu died in the capital Jakarta, the health ministry said Tuesday, in the country's third fatal case in three months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dies-bird-flu-indonesia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:16:16 EST news245394965 Internet-based news and Twitter feeds were faster than traditional sources at detecting the onset and progression of the cholera epidemic in post-earthquake Haiti that has already killed more than 6500 people and sickened almost half a million, according to a new study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cholera-haiti-tracked-rapidly-social.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:09:46 EST news245354976 Germany and the Czech Republic advised women Friday to have potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed, but Britain said it was not convinced of the need. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-germans-czechs-french-breasts-implants.html Other Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:44:42 EST news245097876 Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health scare. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-french-breast-implant-world.html Other Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:50:31 EST news245080223 (AP) -- The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm after the country's first reported case of the disease in humans in 18 months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-china-bird-flu-death-human-human.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:40:01 EST news244714947 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 The founder of the French firm that made breast implants feared to be at risk of rupturing has admitted using non-approved but non-toxic silicone gels, his lawyer said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-breast-implant-maker-non-approved-gels.html Other Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:30:42 EST news244225833 Breast implants made by troubled French firm PIP have been at the heart of multiple lawsuits in the United States, where they were sold up until 2000, documents filed with the US government show. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-french-breast-implant-maker-lawsuits.html Other Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:17:49 EST news244149405 Interpol on Friday issued a "red notice" seeking the arrest of Frenchman Jean-Claude Mas, founder of the breast implant company at the centre of a widespread women's health scare. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-interpol-breast-implant-company-founder.html Other Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:50:56 EST news243928246 France's health ministry Friday advised 30,000 women with breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed, saying that while there is no proven cancer risk the prostheses could rupture. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-breast-implants.html Other Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:37:06 EST news243859013 (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 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 It's getting surprisingly easy to light up in the Netherlands these days - cigarettes, that is. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-dutch-backtracks-anti-smoking.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:20:00 EST news243083991