Indonesian Health Ministry announced that a young woman died of bird flu Saturday, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 103.
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A senior member of Tajikistan's Islamic opposition party has died after spending five years in prison.
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New Zealanders are debating how best to honour Sir Edmund Hillary after his state funeral is held later this morning.
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The Nigerian Times International calls for a law to punish rumour mongers as the man that was rumoured to be dead, Alhaji Umar Shehu Yar'Adua, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), returned to Nigeria from Germany yesterday.
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Using morphine to end a person's life is a myth, argues a senior doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, heart disease is not primarily a male disease, and is in fact statistically far more deadly when it occurs in women. Most women are not aware that heart disease is the number one killer of women, far greater than any other disease.
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Doubts over three influential head injury studies mean that patients are receiving treatment that may be unsound, warn doctors in this week's BMJ.
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New research shows that unbelted backseat passengers risk injury or death to themselves and the driver seated in front of them in the event of a head-on crash.
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