Health
- October 19, 2007
A 17-year-old Texas high school student collapsed and died Wednesday after completing the PSAT scholarship-qualification test. Juan Carlos Ambriz was a junior at El Dorado High School, The El Paso Times reported. Socorro Independent School District...
No staph outbreak in W.Va. county
October 19, 2007Five students in a West Virginia county have been diagnosed with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus, but health officials are not calling it an outbreak. Diana Gaviria, the health officer for Berkeley County, said the students are at different schools...
3 football players get staph in Va.
October 19, 2007Three cases of drug-resistant Staphylococcus have been reported in members of the junior varsity football team at a Virginia high school. Doug Bachman, activities director at James River High School in Chesterfield, said the infection was diagnosed...
Staph believed spread in H.S. locker room
October 19, 2007A student at an Indiana high school diagnosed with drug-resistant Staphylococcus is believed to have picked it up in the locker room. Chris Rodal, athletic director at Richmond High School, said the locker rooms were completely cleaned Wednesday night...
Fish soup alleged motive for killing
October 19, 2007A Texas man allegedly killed a longtime acquaintance because he was tired of being teased -- with the last incident an insult to his fish soup. Miguel Angel Ruiz is on trial in San Antonio, The San Antonio Express-News reported. Prosecutors Wednesday...
New way to detect ash size health danger
October 12, 2007A Durham University expert in England has devised a rapid and cheap way of estimating the potential risk posed to human health by volcanic ash. Dr. Claire Horwell developed a new sieving technique that analyzes the grain size of volcanic ash to determine...
Gates foundation creates health fund
October 10, 2007The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, headquartered in Seattle, has started a $100 million fund for research grants related to global health. The foundation is inviting scientists with unorthodox approaches to the issue to apply for small, but quickly...
Government gives go ahead to new social assistance mechanism
October 05, 2007State social assistance will be given in line with the assessment of the average monthly global income of the family and its need in social assistance, according to a draft law the government passed on October 3. The bill sets the mechanism of calculating...
Judge acquits in tainted blood trial
October 02, 2007A judge cleared Canadian health officials and a U.S. drug company Monday of criminal liability for tainted blood products that infected thousands of people. Justice Mary Lou Benotto of the Ontario Superior Court said the accused should not have been...
Smaller classes may reduce healthcare cost
October 01, 2007Reducing U.S. elementary school class sizes might be among the most cost-effective ways to reduce healthcare costs, a study suggests. Peter Muennig of Columbia University in New York and Steven H. Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond...
