Health Policy Crisis Reform In The U.S Health Care Delivery System

Kiev - The death toll from a swine flu outbreak in Ukraine has risen to nearly 50, President Viktor Yushchenko announced Saturday, having put the number of dead at only 11 the day before. Quoted by the Interfax news agency, Yushchenko said the epidem...

Sydney - An Australian polio victim confined to an iron lung respirator for the past 60 years has died, a spokeswoman for Melbourne's Thornbury nursing home said Saturday. June Middleton, who was 83, entered the Guinness Book of Records three years a...

Washington - A US rule banning foreigners with HIV or AIDS from entering the United States will be lifted by early January, President Barack Obama announced Friday. The elimination of the 22-year-old rule is meant to put an end to the stigma of being...

Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday blamed swine flu for the death of 11 people so far, as government officials moved to head off an epidemic. Yushchenko announced the death toll at a press briefing televised nationally and describ...

Heidelberg, Germany - Europe's first heavy-ion accelerator specially designed to destroy cancer tumours requires as much electricity to run as a town of 10,000 people, the doctor in charge said Friday. The Heidelberg Ion Radiation Therapy Centre (HIT...