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First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:00 GMT

(AFP) - First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

US First Lady Michelle Obama, alongside members of the 2009 ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:00 GMT

(AFP) - US First Lady Michelle Obama, alongside members of the 2009 National Championship Pee-Wee football team, the Watkins Hornets, speaks about her initiative, "Let's Move," a campaign to help combat childhood obesity, during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Saul Loeb)

The World Health Organization provides dyptheria and Tetnus ...

(AFP/MINUSTAH/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:14:57 GMT

(AFP/MINUSTAH/File) - The World Health Organization provides dyptheria and Tetnus vaccinations given by Cuban doctors at the National Stadium on February 3, in downtown Port-au-Prince. The WHO on Tuesday halted free drug deliveries to private hospitals and NGOs in quake-devastated Haiti following reports patients were being charged for treatment, a spokeswoman said.(AFP/MINUSTAH/File/Sophia Paris)

US First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a major push against ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:01 GMT

(AFP) - US First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a major push against childhood obesity, which affects around one in three US children and threatens to make the current generation of Americans the first to live shorter lives than their parents.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

An obese child steps on a scale. US First Lady Michelle Obama ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:01 GMT

(AFP/File) - An obese child steps on a scale. US First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a major push against childhood obesity, which affects around one in three US children and threatens to make the current generation of Americans the first to live shorter lives than their parents.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)

Pigs stand in their pen at a farm. Australian medical researchers ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:59:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - Pigs stand in their pen at a farm. Australian medical researchers said Tuesday they have made advances that could see pig lungs transplanted into humans within a decade.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)

US President Barack Obama speaks before signing a memorandum ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:46:56 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama speaks before signing a memorandum on childhood obesity as First Lady Michelle Obama looks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

First Lady Michelle Obama stands in the Oval Office of the White ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:13:20 GMT

(AFP) - First Lady Michelle Obama stands in the Oval Office of the White House during the launch of a major push against childhood obesity, which she has targeted as one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Smokers at Tampa International Airport are seen taking advantage ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:20:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - Smokers at Tampa International Airport are seen taking advantage of the airport's smoking area. When a cigarette burns, nicotine is released in the form of a vapor that collects and condenses on indoor surfaces such as walls, carpeting, drapes and furniture, where it can linger for months, said the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)

A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:33:23 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Cambodian scavenger (L) collects empty cans of soft drink and bottles of drinking water as a school child (R) sits next to her drinking a soft drink in 2008. People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

The shadows of participants a fund raiser for breast cancer ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

(AFP/File) - The shadows of participants a fund raiser for breast cancer are cast on a poster. A common antidepressant weakens or cancels the beneficial effects of a standard treatment for breast cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

President Barack Obama on Sunday unveiled a dramatic gambit ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:44:26 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - President Barack Obama on Sunday unveiled a dramatic gambit on his stalled health care plan to millions of Americans tuning in for the Super Bowl, summoning Republicans to a televised White House summit.(AFP/Graphic)

A woman is prepared for a heart operation at the University ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:44:26 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A woman is prepared for a heart operation at the University of Miami Health System in Miami, Florida in 2009. Republicans staked out a tough bargaining position Monday and demanded President Barack Obama shelve his massive health reform plan, after he cajoled them into a summit on his top priority issue.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)

Republicans were dug into tough bargaining positions and facing ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:44:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - Republicans were dug into tough bargaining positions and facing a political conundrum Monday, after President Barack Obama, seen here on February 6, cajoled them into a health reform summit during a live Super Bowl interview.(AFP/File/Chris Kleponis)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, seen here in 2009 and ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:44:26 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, seen here in 2009 and who has the power to block or delay Obama's reform agenda after Democrats lost their 60th Senate seat, said the president must put his mammoth health bill "on the shelf."(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)

A man takes an HIV test in 2009 at the World Aids day event ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:23:05 GMT

(AFP/File) - A man takes an HIV test in 2009 at the World Aids day event in Pretoria, South Africa. A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)

Elderly ladies are seen at the Franco-German border in Strasbourg, ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:21:45 GMT

(AFP) - Elderly ladies are seen at the Franco-German border in Strasbourg, Easter France in 2009. Certain people carry a genetic variant that could shave three or four years off their life, according to a new study.(AFP/Patrick Hertzog)

A boy with autism at a treament center. Women over 40 are nearly ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:11:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - A boy with autism at a treament center. Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)

A mother holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter outside ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:09:54 GMT

(AFP/File) - A mother holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter outside the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing. Chinese authorities are hunting for nearly 100 tonnes of melamine-laced milk powder left over from 2008 which resulted in the deaths of six babies who consumed the toxic substance, state media has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

Graphic on Papua New Guinea's first reported cholera outbreak ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:25:10 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Graphic on Papua New Guinea's first reported cholera outbreak in 50 years(AFP/Graphic)

A young boy takes a shower in a street among traditional stilt ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:25:10 GMT

(AFP/File) - A young boy takes a shower in a street among traditional stilt homes near Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The Pacific nation has seen a cholera outbreak spread to 2,000 people, a World Health Organization official has said as he warned that poor water sanitation was making the disease hard to contain.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)

Children wear surgical masks at "Enrique Rebsamen" ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:44:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - Children wear surgical masks at "Enrique Rebsamen" school in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2009. The global death toll from swine flu has risen to 15,174, up 463 from a week ago, but the pandemic is steadily losing momentum around the world, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.(AFP/File/Juan Carlos Reyes)

Women cook in 2007 near the "Babemba Traore" stadium ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:22 GMT

(AFP/File) - Women cook in 2007 near the "Babemba Traore" stadium in Sikasso, Mali. In Mali over 90 percent of women between 15 and 49 years of age have been circumcised, with up to 140 million women and girls in 28 countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)

A research breakthrough may give a voice to people presumed ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:11:44 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - A research breakthrough may give a voice to people presumed to be in a vegetative state. A man who had been presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years, can communicate yes and no via his thought patterns, according to a study by British and Belgian researchers.(AFP/Graphic)

File photo shows pregnant women taking part in a yoga lesson ...

(AFP/InterPress/File) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:19:32 GMT

(AFP/InterPress/File) - File photo shows pregnant women taking part in a yoga lesson in a Maternity Hospital. Australian researchers said on Friday they had debunked the myth that a women's ability to think was impaired by pregnancy and mothering a newborn -- a condition commonly referred to as "baby brain".(AFP/InterPress/File/Alexander Drozdov)

File photo shows a mother riding a bicycle with her young children ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:19:32 GMT

(AFP/File) - File photo shows a mother riding a bicycle with her young children in a park in Tokyo. An Australian National University team conducting a 20-year population study on health and ageing analysed the mental function of a group of women before and during pregnancy and in the early stages of motherhood. The study found that carrying a baby had "pretty much no permanent effects" on a woman's brain(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)

A young child drinks milk from a bottle outside his home in ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:15:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - A young child drinks milk from a bottle outside his home in a hutong in Beijing. Chinese officials have banned independent reporting on the latest toxic food scandal involving melamine, a chemical blamed for the deaths of six babies in 2008, a press watchdog has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

Archive video: Four children have died and more than 6,000 are ...

(AFPTV) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:15:59 GMT

(AFPTV) - Archive video: Four children have died and more than 6,000 are ill after consuming contaminated milk powder. Chinese authorities have vowed to fully investigate the scandal which is the latest in a litany of problems surrounding the country's food quality and safety. Duration: 02:42(AFPTV)

Graphic on a research breakthrough that may give a voice to ...

(AFP) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:38:42 GMT

(AFP) - Graphic on a research breakthrough that may give a voice to people presumed to be in a vegetative state. A man who had been presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years, can communicate yes and no via his thought patterns, according to a study by British and Belgian researchers.(AFP/null)

A laboratory assistant is seen with a blood sample collected ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:31:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - A laboratory assistant is seen with a blood sample collected for testing for malaria. A malaria vaccine tested by US and African researchers in Mali produced a robust immune response in young children, the group most vulnerable to the mosquito-borne disease, according to a report released on Thursday.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

A man who had been presumed to be in a vegetative state for ...

(NEJM) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:04:50 GMT

(NEJM) - A man who had been presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years, can communicate yes and no via his thought patterns, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday.(NEJM)

Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:43:30 GMT

(AFP/File) - Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame. A new study may help tip the balance in favour of those who claim that fat runs in their family and there is little they can do about it.(AFP/File)

A mosquito is bloated with blood as it inserts its stinger into ...

(AFP/USDA-HO/File) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:18:17 GMT

(AFP/USDA-HO/File) - A mosquito is bloated with blood as it inserts its stinger into human flesh in this undated photo released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Investigators said on Wednesday they had made important lab discoveries in mosquitoes and the parasite which causes malaria, opening up new paths for attacking a disease that claims nearly a million lives per year.(AFP/USDA-HO/File)

An illustration explaining how malaria infects humans. Investigators ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:18:17 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - An illustration explaining how malaria infects humans. Investigators said on Wednesday they had made important lab discoveries in mosquitoes and the parasite which causes malaria, opening up new paths for attacking a disease that claims nearly a million lives per year.(AFP/Graphic)

A dissected Pompilidae-Pepsis sp. is pictured at the laboratory ...

(AFP/file) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:10:48 GMT

(AFP/file) - A dissected Pompilidae-Pepsis sp. is pictured at the laboratory of the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBIO) on February 2 in Santo Domingo de Heredia, on the outskirts of San Jose. In the laboratory of INBIO, with funding from the Netherlands, scientists of Costa Rica, Bhutan and Benin are working on the reproduction of various types of native insects that can be eaten.(AFP/file/Yuri Cortez)

Elisabeth T. Zannou from Benin, works at the laboratory of the ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:10:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - Elisabeth T. Zannou from Benin, works at the laboratory of the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBIO) on February 2 Santo Domingo de Heredia, on the outskirts of San Jose. With funding from the Netherlands, scientists of Costa Rica, Bhutan and Benin are working on the reproduction of various types of native insects that can be eaten.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)

Ugyen Yangchen from Bhutan works at the laboratory of the National ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:10:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - Ugyen Yangchen from Bhutan works at the laboratory of the National Institute of Biodiversity on February 2 in Santo Domingo de Heredia, on the outskirts of San Jose. With funding from the Netherlands, scientists of Costa Rica, Bhutan and Benin are working on the reproduction of various types of native insects that can be eaten.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)

A dissected Erotylidae is pictured at the laboratory of the ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:10:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - A dissected Erotylidae is pictured at the laboratory of the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBIO) on February 2 in Santo Domingo de Heredia, in the outskirts of San Jose.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)

Vehicles are caught in a heavy traffic on the main expressway ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:08:42 GMT

(AFP/File) - Vehicles are caught in a heavy traffic on the main expressway in Seoul, in 2008. A court ruled Wednesday that South Korea's government and five main automakers are not responsible for respiratory diseases allegedly caused by air pollution.(AFP/File/Jeon Young-Han)

After struggling for years to explain why some apparently healthy ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:54:20 GMT

(AFP/File) - After struggling for years to explain why some apparently healthy babies die suddenly in their sleep, a study published Tuesday singles out serotonin deficiency as a key culprit in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or cot death.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)

US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) speaks alongside Health and ...

(AFP) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:54:35 GMT

(AFP) - US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) speaks alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (L) on childhood obesity, and steps that families, schools and communities can to fight it, during a meeting with Cabinet and Congressional members in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Saul Loeb)

Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield (R) and his wife Carmel are ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:16:51 GMT

(AFP/File) - Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield (R) and his wife Carmel are seen outside the General Medical Council in central London on January 28. Medical journal The Lancet has retracted a 1998 study linking autism with innoculation against three childhood illnesses, a paper that caused a major ethical storm and a backlash against vaccination.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)

Medical journal The Lancet has retracted a 1998 study linking ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:16:51 GMT

(AFP/File) - Medical journal The Lancet has retracted a 1998 study linking autism with innoculation against three childhood illnesses, a paper that caused a major ethical storm and a backlash against vaccination.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)

Protestors hold banners during a demonstration by members of ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:53 GMT

(AFP/File) - Protestors hold banners during a demonstration by members of anti-racism associations in solidarity with the immigrant workers of Rosarno in front of the Interior ministry on January 9 in Rome. Camps for refugees and migrants in Italy are "ineffective," the humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)

Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield (right) and his wife Carmel ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:21 GMT

(AFP/File) - Disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield (right) and his wife Carmel are seen outside the General Medical Council in central London on January 28. Medical journal The Lancet has retracted a 1998 study linking autism with innoculation against three childhood illnesses, a paper that caused a major ethical storm and a backlash against vaccination.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)

A southern Sudanese girl collects sorghum grain spilled from ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:03:22 GMT

(AFP/File) - A southern Sudanese girl collects sorghum grain spilled from split bags that were earlier airdropped from the United Nations World Food Programme in the state of Jonglei, in 2009. The number of hungry people in southern Sudan has quadrupled since last August to some 4.3 million because of conflict and drought, the UN emergency food agency said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Peter Martell)

Australian researchers said Tuesday they had discovered a gene ...

(AFP) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:25:40 GMT

(AFP) - Australian researchers said Tuesday they had discovered a gene associated with long-sightedness, a development they said could lead to drug treatments that will replace glasses.(AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)

Half of the 400,000 deaths from coronary heart disease predicted ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:59:25 GMT

(AFP/File) - Half of the 400,000 deaths from coronary heart disease predicted in the United States in 2010 could be avoided if people ate healthier food and stopped smoking, according to research published Monday.(AFP/File/Frederick Florin)

A row of ¨Tacos Dorados¨ (corn tortillas filled with cheese, ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:07:52 GMT

(AFP/File) - A row of ¨Tacos Dorados¨ (corn tortillas filled with cheese, beans, pork meat and chilli sauce) on display by a "comal" (metal hotplate) at a street stand in Mexico City in 2008. Mexico's rich diet of tacos, tortillas and tortas (large sandwiches), which is jokingly nicknamed "Vitamin T," has steered its children to the top of world obesity charts.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)

A one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother competes at the shot ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:12:04 GMT

(AFP/File) - A one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother competes at the shot put during the World Masters Games in Sydney. Australia on Monday unveiled a 43 million dollar (38 million US) plan to keep older people in the workforce, as it strives to ward off an economic slowdown expected as the growing population ages.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)