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Thousands of parents have been left clueless as the number of infections and fatalities increases and the Ministry of Health has announced it may close schools nationwide if cases of pneumonia and H1N1 continue to rise. The return of 73,000...

The African National Congress (ANC) on Wednesday condemned "negative and irresponsible" media reports about former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's hospitalisation. "It is our view that such reporting is a violation of Comrade Manto's rights to privacy, as well as a...

Some deliveries of swine flu vaccine will be delayed this month, in the latest complication for health officials in mounting a massive immunization campaign as the disease continues to spread. About 40 million doses of vaccine had been expected by...

Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk. These included 21% of mammals, 30% of amphibians, 70% of plants and 35% of invertebrates. Biodiversity Conservation Group. "The latest analysis... shows that the 2010 target to...

Health organizations have joined forces to launch the first World Pneumonia Day , urging governments, donors and civil society to act to prevent and treat the world’s leading child killer...World Health Organization (WHO) in a Global Action Plan for the...

Former minister MP Peter Lilley joined RT to discuss the scandal dubbed Climategate. “A group of scientists are so loyal to each other that they’re determined to agree with each other even more than they are determined to agree with...

Living conditions in Zimbabwe for women and children has deteriorated during the last five years, government data and a U.N. report indicated...The information indicated the mortality rate for children under age 5 rose 20 percent since 1990, the baseline year...

Thereafter, the rats were classified as control, sham, diabetic, diabetic received flaxseed oil in the diet, ovx, ovx-diabetic and ovx-diabetic received flaxseed oil in the diet. After two months, the urine and blood samples of ovx and the diabetic ovx...

Kastberg said. “Faith-based organizations are often able to reach deprived and marginalized children when others can’t. They can also help create awareness amongst their congregations about children’s rights and needs,” he added...The objective of the day is to encourage all...

A deadly outbreak of E. coli has been traced to a large producer of ground beef that stopped testing its ingredients years ago under pressure from beef suppliers. A facility in Ashville, N.Y., owned by the company, AFA Foods, recalled...