Fat people cheaper to treat, study says (AP) 
AP - Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.
Source: news.yahoo.comIndia says bird flu outbreak in east contained (Reuters) 
Reuters - India's worst outbreak of bird flu appears to be under control, with a massive cull of poultry to contain the disease almost completed, health officials said on Tuesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comPakistan poultry workers being tested for bird flu (Reuters) Reuters -
Health authorities in Pakistan are doing tests on 12 workers from a farm where the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in poultry, a
Health Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comBorn to Be Obese? (HealthDay) HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 5 (
HealthDay News) -- The brain circuitry that controls appetite might be wired differently in some people, and that could predispose them to obesity, California researchers suggest.
Source: news.yahoo.comNew bird flu outbreak hits Turkey: agency (AFP) AFP - Turkish authorities said Tuesday that bird flu has been detected in poultry in a village in the northwest of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Source: news.yahoo.comHIV infections on the rise in Sweden: officials (AFP) 
AFP - The number of new HIV infections jumped 20 percent in Sweden last year, health officials said Tuesday, quoting preliminary figures that could signal altered attitudes towards the disease that causes AIDS.
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