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One case of a rare, degenerative brain disease has been confirmed in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, and a health official says two other cases are now suspected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-case-rare-brain-disease-bc.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:44:31 EST news290490260 A Dominican official says Haiti erroneously reported that his country has an outbreak of avian flu when it cited the disease as a reason for imposing a ban this week on the import of Dominican meats, chicken, eggs and other goods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-dominican-denies-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:34:00 EST news289931633 A group of independent experts has slammed Britain's cosmetic surgery industry for not protecting patients adequately and is calling for stricter controls in the aftermath of a breast implant scandal in Europe last year that left tens of thousands of women with cheap silicone implants prone to ruptures. A top British health official, meanwhile, signaled support for their recommendations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-uk-experts-cosmetic-surgery-tighter.html Surgery Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:28:24 EST news285964094 (AP)—A European Union prosecutor has added charges to an indictment against 7 Kosovars suspected in an illegal kidney transplantation scheme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-eu-prosecutor-kosovo-case.html Other Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:30:02 EST news283191212 A 35-year-old man has become Cambodia's eighth bird flu fatality this year, prompting concern about the spread of the virus in the country, a health official said Tuesday, http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cambodia-eighth-bird-flu-death.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:00:11 EST news281090198 The EU's top health official on Friday said there was no need to panic over a Europe-wide horsemeat scandal, saying it was a labelling rather than a health issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-panic-horsemeat-scandal-eu.html Other Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:20:02 EST news280137898 (HealthDay)—Sporadic shortages of both the flu vaccine and the flu treatment Tamiflu are being reported, as this year's intense flu season continues, according to a top U.S. health official. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-shortages-flu-vaccine-tamiflu-fda.html Medications Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:48:31 EST news277494168 Cholera has broken out in northern Zambia this week, with at least 30 cases recorded in the past three days, a health official said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-zambia-cholera-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:01:07 EST news276343262 Former EU health commissioner John Dalli on Wednesday vowed to issue a legal challenge to Brussels following his forced resignation over a tobacco-linked influence-peddling fraud probe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-eu-ex-health-commissioner-ouster.html Health Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:20:07 EST news270312723 A shady Maltese lobbyist, Sweden's substitute for snuff, robberies against anti-smoking groups: the resignation of the EU's top health official in a tobacco-linked "whodunnit" is shaking up Brussels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tobacco-lobby-heart-eu-scandal.html Health Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:14:20 EST news270123252 Some six million patients in Iran are affected by Western economic sanctions as import of medicine is becoming increasingly difficult, a governmental paper reported Sunday quoting a health official. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-sanctions-affecting-million-patients-iran.html Health Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:04:25 EST news270047055 Tobacco producer Swedish Match claimed Friday it was offered the opportunity to pay 60 million euros ($78 million) to thwart new EU tobacco legislation in a scandal that has cost Europe's top health official his job. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-swedish-eu-bribes-totalled-million.html Other Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:04:46 EST news269856242 The EU executive faced a growing scandal Wednesday after its top health official resigned on being cited in a tobacco-linked influence-peddling fraud probe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-uproar-eu-tobacco-linked-fraud-case.html Health Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:40:04 EST news269709998 (HealthDay)—The company at the center of the ongoing meningitis outbreak appears to have violated Massachusetts law by producing and distributing large quantities of a contaminated steroid compound, a state health official said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pharmacy-tied-meningitis-outbreak-broken.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:33:03 EST news269256768 A woman had died of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in Kosovo as two more patients were suspected of being infected with the disease, a health official said on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-west-nile-virus-victim-kosovo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:44:19 EST news267284651 India is considering plain packaging of cigarettes in line with new Australian laws that ban all logos and brand descriptions, a top health official in New Delhi said on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-india-mulls-plain-packaging-cigarettes.html Health Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:00:10 EST news266047202 About 117,000 babies were saved from HIV infection last year under South Africa's scheme to prevent mothers from passing on the disease during childbirth, health official said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-south-africa-success-newborns-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:57:46 EST news261914258 Sierra Leone's health ministry on Wednesday said an outbreak of cholera in the west African country has killed 62 people in less than a month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sleone-cholera-outbreak-month.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:58:30 EST news261853095 Two people have died and 26 others have been infected by an outbreak of cholera in the city of Gao, northern Mali, a region occupied by hardline Islamist groups, officials told AFP on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-cholera-outbreak-northern-mali.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:10:03 EST news260679607 (HealthDay) -- The U.S. government is giving the go-ahead for publication of two controversial studies into the H5N1 avian (bird) flu virus, a top federal health official announced Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-green-publish-controversial-bird-flu.html Medical research Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:43:47 EST news254375006 (AP) -- China will abolish the transplanting of organs from executed prisoners within five years and try to spur more citizens to donate, a top health official says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-china-phase-prisoner-donation.html Other Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:02:19 EST news251694124 Executed prisoners were still the main source of organs used in transplant operations in China due to the lack of voluntary donations, a top health official was quoted saying Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-death-row-inmates-main-source-china.html Other Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:11:47 EST news250330300 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 At least 90 people were admitted to hospital and over 600 affected in a typhoid outbreak in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, a health official said on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-typhoid-outbreak-zimbabwe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:58:38 EST news246599901 Nearly 7,000 people have now died from cholera in Haiti in an epidemic which has become one of the worst of recent decades, a top health official said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-haiti-cholera-death-toll-nears.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:50:35 EST news245076630 Hong Kong officials said Wednesday the discovery of a bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease at the new government complex was "under control", while it was probing the source of the deadly bug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-hong-kong-probes-deadly-bug.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:00:01 EST news244892913 It's the morning after and the controversy over how to sell emergency contraception still looms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-block-otc-morning-after-pill-outrage.html Medications Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:40:01 EST news242540839