Reuters - Chocoholics looking to curb their chocolate urges may be able to do so simply by taking a brisk 15-minute walk, results of a study from the United Kingdom hints.
AFP - President-elect Barack Obama has picked former Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle as his future health and human services secretary, a Democratic official said Wednesday.
AP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.
Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has selected former U.S. senator Tom Daschle to become secretary of health and human services, two Democratic officials said.
Reuters - A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that health care workers are more likely to die from bloodborne infections and related illnesses than people working in other occupations.
Reuters - Older men and younger women fare worse with stomach, or "gastric" cancer than patients in other gender and age groups, research shows.
Reuters - Pregnant women are more willing to accept potential risks of delivering their baby vaginally than are the medical professionals caring for them, Australian researchers report.
AFP - South Africa has treated 68 cholera patients since the weekend in a town by the border with Zimbabwe, where the disease has killed dozens of people in recent weeks, a health official said Wednesday.
AFP - As many as 109 people have fallen ill due to a suspected outbreak of typhoid fever northeast of Manila, a health department official said Wednesday.
AFP - School pupils throughout Europe will soon be offered free fruit every week under an EU initiative agreed Wednesday to improve children's health and tackle obesity.
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