Health News On July 2, 2009

Chinese netizens have criticized their country's emergency medical system after learning about the emergency call made by Michael Jackson's doctor after finding him unconscious. ... Read more

Test-tube fertilisation in Europe has scaled a record high for success while also reducing the risk of multiple births, fertility experts reported on Wednesday.

In 2006, the average pregnancy rate per embryo transfer was 32.8 percent ... Read more

Uganda will resist pressures from donor countries to soften its stance on homosexuality and plans to pass a new law that significantly clamps down on gay rights, a minister said Wednesday. ... Read more

Conditions of Australian aboriginals are worsening, a new report says. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the findings are devastating.

Aborigines, the country’s original inhabitants, account for 2.5 percent of the 21 million population. ... Read more

Tomorrow’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting is a crucial opportunity to focus on achieving concrete long-term health improvements for Indigenous people, the AMA said. ... Read more

In order to tackle the deadly effects of passive smoking The European Union commission called for public places throughout Europe to be smoke-free by 2012.

"It is my firm belief that each and every European merits full protection from ... Read more

The European Food Safety Authority declared on Tuesday that a banned strain of genetically modified maize poses no risk to health or the environment. ... Read more

A new study has found that a scientific system, originally designed to rapidly evaluate the world's air traffic patterns, can accurately predict how the H1N1 virus would spread around the world.... Read more

Europe's heaviest-smoking nation and a land known for its continuing love affair with cigarettes is introducing a tobacco ban in public places on July 1, again.... Read more

New research seems to reveal that those who followed a vegetarian diet developed notably fewer cancers of the blood, bladder and stomach. But then vegetarians might not be all that immune to bowel cancer, a major killer.

In ... Read more