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This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Dr. Harald zur Hausen of Germany for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer," and to Drs.

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - A "deadly dozen" diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday.

The society, based in the Bronx Zoo in the United States and which works in 60 nations, urged better monitoring of wildlife health to help give an early warning of how pathogens might spread with global warming.

It listed the "deadly dozen" as avian flu, tick-borne babesia, cholera, ebola, parasites, plague, lyme disease, red tides of algal blooms, Rift Valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis and yellow fever.

Forget about the outdated notion of thrift shops as the refuge of the working poor, the down and out or the vintage fashion hipster.

Bavarian Nordic has now evaluated the mature phase II data from the therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine candidate PROSTVAC that had been obtained as part of the recently entered partnership with the National ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects in a small study of 18 pregnant women.

The Vietnamese government should immediately release Roman Catholics arrested for holding peaceful prayer vigils in Hanoi and hold accountable police and others responsible for attacking Catholic parishioners, ...

Social services and the funding they entail are vital to ensure that children in households affected by HIV and AIDS are not forced to drop out of school to care for sick relatives or to engage in paid work ...

Mothers Against Drunk Driving has a new executive director in New Mexico. Lora Lee Ortiz previously served as the development director for MADD New Mexico, and on the group's advisory council before that.

A new analysis finds considerable disparities in survival related to race and socio-economic status among patients with head and neck cancer.

A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard.

Senior UPDF officers could be arrested and tried in the United States for recruiting child soldiers under a new law passed by the Bush administration.

Charity work in China needs more funding, more helping hands and more grassroots charitable organizations at local and rural levels, a senior official recently said.

The international human rights body, Amnesty International has reportedly appealed to the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan and the US-led NATO security forces operating in Afghanistan to provide safe ...

Rallies are being held in Toronto and Ottawa today demanding that Omar Khadr be returned home.

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: _ 2007: Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Martin J. Evans of the ...

Ethiopia on Saturday denied claims by Human Rights Watch that it tortured terror suspects held in prisons since 2006 when Addis Ababa dispatched troops to neighbouring Somalia to quell Islamist rebels.

October 1st, 2008 by Shakir Lakhani Along with the brutal killings of Muslims and Sikhs, Christians too are facing annihilation in "secular" India.

Those remaining residents in South Ossetia and the adjacent, Russian-controlled "buffer zone" face shootings, looting and ethnically motivated attacks.

Using an animal strain called the leptin-luciferase mouse, Rockefeller University researchers observed the formation of fat from precursor cells over 12 weeks.

In this photo released by Wildlife Conservation Society, a female soft-shell turtle rests near a pool inside a zoo in Suzhou, China, May 9, 2008.