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Taiwan SARS outbreak shows signs of slowing
Taiwan’s SARS outbreak appears to be stabilising, but despite declining infections the island is taking no chances. Taiwan’s SARS...
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Toronto back on WHO Sars list
The World Health Organization (WHO) has put Canada’s largest city, Toronto, back on its list of areas affected by the […]
Smoking May Speed Lung Cancer Patients’ Death
Smokers who continue to puff away even after a lung cancer diagnosis seem to die more quickly than smokers who […]
Update 65 – Situation in Toronto
Situation in Toronto Situation in Toronto Health authorities in Canada have today informed WHO that two clusters of cases of […]
World Health Organization changes Hong Kong, Guangdong travel recommendations
23 May 2003 | GENEVA — Effective today, the World Health Organization (WHO) is removing its recommendation that people should […]
Strain of SARS Is Found in 3 Animal Species in Asia
HONG KONG, May 23 A virus virtually identical to the one thought to cause SARS in humans has been found […]
SARS Death Toll Climbs in Asia, Canada
TORONTO/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Canada reported climbing death tolls in their fight against SARS Sunday and […]
Isolation call in Canada Sars threat
Canadian health officials have appealed to hundreds of health workers in Toronto to voluntarily put themselves into quarantine because of […]
Macrophages induce T cell apoptosis in patients with advanced gastric cancer
In patients with tumors, down-regulation of T cell signaling is related to T cell apoptosis. Now, a team of Japanese […]
Sexual taboos may prevent use of HPV vaccine
Thousands of women may die because sexual taboos are likely to prevent governments from introducing mass vaccination programmes to school-age...
Loss of adaptor protein implicated in pre-B cell ALL
Complete loss or a drastic reduction in expression of SLP-65, an adaptor protein, may be one of the main causes […]
Lysophosphatidic acid uses cyclin D1 to stimulate ovarian cancer growth
US-based cancer researchers have discovered that lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a normal constituent of blood, can directly promote the growth of...
Childhood hemangiomas cause major emotional stress for family
Parents of children with hemangiomas on the face and other body sites appear to experience a great deal of psychological […]
WHO seeks $306m for SARS fight
THE World Health Organisation is seeking $US200 million ($306.2m) to help Asian nations combat the SARS virus as the crisis […]
SARS ‘came from space’
SARS may have come from space, according to a novel theory aired by a trio of astrobiologists in Britain and […]
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