Indian farmers poison 50 rare jackals (AP) AP - At least 50 rare jackals were poisoned to death in northern India by farmers angry over alleged attacks on children and damage to crops blamed on the animals, a forest official said Tuesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comMedicare Drug Plan Fuels Health-Care Spending (HealthDay) HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 8 (
HealthDay News) -- The new Medicare
prescription drug plan was largely responsible for an 18.7 percent increase in Medicare spending in 2006, which was double the increase in spending from the year before, U.S.
health officials report.
Source: news.yahoo.comDairy linked to 3 deaths, miscarriage (AP) 
AP - At Whittier Farms dairy, the fifth-generation owners brag of the quality of their Holstein cows and still deliver milk right to your door, in glass bottles. Customers like the products because they are a hormone-free taste of old New England.
Source: news.yahoo.comMalawi pays to improve nutrition of HIV-positive workers (AFP) 
AFP - Malawi, one of Africa's poorest countries, is to give civil servants carrying the HIV virus an extra 35 dollars a month to help them improve their nutrition, a top health official said Tuesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comGirls who feel unpopular may gain weight (AP) AP - Where a teenage girl sees herself on her school's social ladder may sway her future weight, a study of more than 4,000 girls finds. Those who believed they were unpopular gained more weight over a two-year period than girls who viewed themselves as more popular. Researchers said the study showed how a girl's view of her social status has broader
health consequences.
Source: news.yahoo.comWHO urges less qualified AIDS workers for poorer countries (AFP) 
AFP - Less qualified health workers should be used in HIV/AIDS care in developing countries facing severe shortages of doctors and nurses, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Tuesday.
Source: news.yahoo.com
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