S.Africa to spend more on AIDS, crime and poverty (Reuters) Reuters - South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday promised billions of rand to help curb a rampant HIV/AIDS pandemic, reduce poverty and fight crime as the country prepares to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Source: news.yahoo.comUS cancer deaths rose by 5,400 in 2005 (AP) AP - U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society said in a report issued Wednesday. The group counted 559,312 people who died from cancer.
Source: news.yahoo.comHospital 'code blue' deadlier at night (AP) AP - Many hospitals call it "code blue," a signal given over the intercom when a patient's heart has stopped. When code blue works well, a team speeds to the bedside and revives the patient. The graveyard shift is the worst time to call code blue, a new study finds. Patients who go into cardiac arrest while in the hospital are more likely to die if it happens after 11 p.m., when staffing may be lower or patients watched less closely.
Source: news.yahoo.comStrokes among middle-aged women triple (AP) 
AP - Strokes have tripled in recent years among middle-aged women in the U.S., an alarming trend doctors blame on the obesity epidemic. Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the previous survey, from 1988 to 1994.
Source: news.yahoo.comSalty snacks mean more sodas for kids (AP) AP - Kids who load up on salty meals and snacks get thirsty, and too often they turn to calorie-filled sodas. So maybe cutting back on the salt is a good way to cut the calories. That's the idea coming from a British study published Wednesday in an American Heart Association journal.
Source: news.yahoo.comStudy shows where new diseases may arise (AP) AP - New infectious diseases have been appearing more often, says a study that suggests "hot spots" where the next new germs are most likely to appear. "We need to be out there in the hot spot regions looking for the next HIV," said study co-author Peter Daszak.
Source: news.yahoo.comCutting Back on Salt Cuts Down on Sodas With Kids (HealthDay) HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (
HealthDay News) -- Reducing children's salt intake may lower their consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and reduce their risk of obesity, high blood pressure and other
health problems later in life, British researchers say.
Source: news.yahoo.comMemory loss declining among U.S. seniors (Reuters) 
Reuters - Older Americans are having less trouble with their memories, and it may be because they spent more time in school, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comMemory loss declining among U.S. seniors (Reuters) Reuters - Older Americans are having less trouble with their memories, and it may be because they spent more time in school, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Source: news.yahoo.comMore ammo against withdrawn surgery drug (AP) AP - Heart surgery patients were more likely to die if given the anti-bleeding drug Trasylol, two more U.S. studies have found, renewing the claims that the drug is dangerous. Bayer AG stopped selling the drug last fall, after a Canadian study was halted because of deaths among patients taking Trasylol.
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