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Clive Spash resigning and calling for a Senate inquiry to examine claims of censorship at the science body. Dr Spash yesterday lashed out at his former employer, saying it had treated him ''extremely poorly''. He said the organisation had gagged...

French authorities said yesterday they were calling in the army's health services to meet a surge in demand for vaccinations against swine flu, which has killed 30 people in the country. Mass vaccination centres opened on November 12 but "since...

PARIS (Xinhua) -- The number of persons infected with A/H1N1 flu has passed 2.7 million, the French influenza surveillance system reported on Wednesday. Within a week, French population infected with A/H1N1 flu has increased 712,000 on the mainland, totaling 2,726,000...

More than 272,000 women in poor countries died of cervical cancer in 2007, accounting for 85 per cent of the global total. Breast and cervical cancers are likely to kill millions of women in developing countries in the coming years,...

The number of deaths in mainland France from the H1N1 swine flu virus jumped in the last week, according to official data on Thursday. The toll rose to 68 deaths as of November 22, with 22 new deaths last week....

PARIS -- Swine flu virus mutations are spreading in Europe, French health officials said Friday as the World Health Organization reported a leap in deaths from the disease by more than 1,000 in a week. Two patients who were infected...

A la suite de la demande exprimée vendredi par Nicolas Sarkozy auprès de Brice Hortefeux (Intérieur), Luc Chatel (Education), Hervé Morin (Défense) et Roselyne Bachelot (Santé), le gouvernement a annoncé hier les premières mesures...

German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer AG said Thursday it will appeal a decision by the U.K.'s health-care cost regulator not to recommend the company's Nexavar for liver cancer treatment. Sept. 9 said it declined to recommend that the publicly...

Walking pace has already been linked to increased hospital admissions and the incidence of falls and disability. Now experts say walking slowly is "strongly associated" with an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke.