AP - Bush administration officials and their Chinese counterparts sought Friday to nail down a plan to ensure the safety of products they export to the United States.
AP - Drug makers pulled cold medicines targeted for babies and toddlers off the market Thursday, leaving parents to find alternatives for hacking coughs and runny little noses just as fall sniffles get in full swing.
AP - Nurses who didn't wash their hands and left patients lying in soiled beds were cited in an official report blaming mismanagement for the deaths of 90 people who contracted a bacterial infection in hospitals in southern England.
AP - Women are just as likely to get an abortion in countries where it is outlawed as they are in countries where it is legal, according to research published Friday.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Obese people are six times morelikely to develop esophageal cancer than people with healthy weight, saysan Australian study that looked at 800 people with esophageal tumors and1,600 people without the disease.
Reuters - Researchers have warned about "herbal remedies" for erectile dysfunction sold over-the-counter in Hong Kong after most of them were found to contain untested variants of well-known anti-impotence drugs.
AFP - Sixty-nine children in northern Nigeria contracted polio following vaccination against the disease, a World Health Organisation official in Nigeria said on Thursday.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - People with Alzheimer's disease sometimessuffer from depression, often when they begin to understand their loss ofmemory.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- British researchers say they'vespotted key immune system proteins that could give doctors early warningof lung cancer.
