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• Nigeria to immunise 4.6 million children against polio (AFP)

  Posted on 5 Jul 2008 at 11:36 am
  AFP - Nigerian health workers Saturday began house-to-house immunization of 4.6 million children under the age of five in the northern state of Kano in a new drive to eradicate the disease.
  

• Get Healthy: Your Middle-Aged Heart Will Thank You (HealthDay)

  Posted on 5 Jul 2008 at 9:01 am
  HealthDay - SATURDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- Your diet isn't all that healthy, and you haven't been to the gym since who knows when. You can't shed those pesky 20 extra pounds, but what's the use, you may ask -- after all, you're well into middle age.
  

• Anxiety, Shyness May Be Long-Lasting Traits (HealthDay)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 11:46 pm
  HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) -- The brains of people who suffer from anxiety and severe shyness may respond more strongly to stress and show signs of being anxious even in situations considered safe by others, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
  

• A tomato by any other name? Experts set food rules (Reuters)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 1:41 pm
  Reuters - Food safety experts agreed for the first time on the qualities defining a tomato, in a first step toward an international code on preventing fruit and vegetable contamination.
  

• Rotting cheese recycled in Italian food scam: report (AFP)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 11:39 am
  AFP - Eleven thousand tonnes of rotting or out-of-date cheese from European dairies were mixed with fresh products and resold, according to an Italian police investigation reported by La Repubblica on Friday.
  

• Harsh school atmosphere may foster student smoking (Reuters)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 10:26 am
  Reuters - Students at high schools that value caring and inclusiveness are significantly less likely to be smokers than their peers at schools placing a heavier emphasis on academics, Scottish researchers report.
  

• Siberian jail is champion in fight against TB (Reuters)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 8:11 pm
  Reuters - Alexander Pushkarev, head doctor at the 1,000-bed hospital in a Soviet-era prison nestling at the edge of Siberia, flashed a row of metal teeth with his smile.
  

• Deadliest malaria cases on rise in UK: study (Reuters)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 7:05 pm
  Reuters - An increase in Britons traveling to malaria-infested countries has steadily increased the number of imported cases of the disease over the past 20 years, researchers said on Friday.
  

• FDA must require tracking of produce: food groups (Reuters)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 4:33 pm
  Reuters - As more Americans get sick while health officials look for the cause of a salmonella outbreak sweeping the country, consumer groups said on Thursday the Food and Drug Administration must put emergency rules in place to track the movement of produce.