Health Photos on Yahoo! News Photos

World Health Organization assistant director general Keiji Fukuda ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:43:31 GMT

(AFP) - World Health Organization assistant director general Keiji Fukuda attends a plenary session of the WHO Summit "Influenza Lessons Learned and Preparedness", in Cancun, Mexico. Universal access to a swine flu vaccine remains a "critical question," the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.(AFP/Luis Acosta)

A DNA test for the Mexican strain f swine flu, is prepared at ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - A DNA test for the Mexican strain f swine flu, is prepared at a laboratory. The World Health Organization (WHO) and developing nations called Friday during a swine flu summit here for measures to ensure poorer countries have access to a future A(H1N1) vaccine.Laboratories with the capacity to produce a vaccine for swine flu.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

Laboratory technicians test nasal swab samples. The World Health ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - Laboratory technicians test nasal swab samples. The World Health Organization (WHO) and developing nations called Friday during a swine flu summit here for measures to ensure poorer countries have access to a future A(H1N1) vaccine. Laboratories with the capacity to produce a vaccine for swine flu, which has developed into the first pandemic of the 21st century, are mostly located in Europe.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

DNA test kits for the the A(H1N1) or swine flu virus at a British ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - DNA test kits for the the A(H1N1) or swine flu virus at a British laboratory in Southampton. The World Health Organization (WHO) and developing nations called Friday during a swine flu summit here for measures to ensure poorer countries have access to a future A(H1N1) vaccine.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

DNA test kits for the the A(H1N1) or swine flu virus at a British ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:53:14 GMT

(AFP/File) - DNA test kits for the the A(H1N1) or swine flu virus at a British laboratory in Southampton. The World Health Organisation says it still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

Taiwan researchers sort through eggs used for the cultivation ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:53:14 GMT

(AFP/File) - Taiwan researchers sort through eggs used for the cultivation of swine flu vaccine in Taichung. The World Health Organisation says it still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.(AFP/File/Patrick Lin)

Interactive graphic on "swine flu" as the latest World ...

(AFP iactiv) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:53:14 GMT

(AFP iactiv) - Interactive graphic on "swine flu" as the latest World Health Organisation figures show the death toll from the pandemic at 311 and total infections at 70,893.(AFP iactiv)

A scientist prepares a DNA test for the A(H1N1) virus. The Croatian ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:34:19 GMT

(AFP/File) - A scientist prepares a DNA test for the A(H1N1) virus. The Croatian government on Friday announced the country's first swine flu case in a woman who had recently returned from Australia.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

China's Health Minister Chen Zhu delivers his speech before ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:27:13 GMT

(AFP/File) - China's Health Minister Chen Zhu delivers his speech before the WHO World health assembly's in Geneva in May 2009. Zhu, Friday, apologized to his Mexican counterpart for failing to warn him about the tough measures Beijing imposed on Mexicans to combat swine flu.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)

A mother comforts her son as a doctor performs a circumcision ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:52:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - A mother comforts her son as a doctor performs a circumcision in 2007. Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region.(AFP/File/Fayez Nureldine)

A scientist prepares a DNA test for the A(H1N1) virus. The World ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:40:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - A scientist prepares a DNA test for the A(H1N1) virus. The World Health Organisation says it still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

The anti-viral drug Tamiflu is prescribed to treat influenza ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:14:42 GMT

(AFP/File) - The anti-viral drug Tamiflu is prescribed to treat influenza A (H1N1). Hong Kong has detected a strain of swine flu that was resistant to Tamiflu.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)

A woman who performs genital cutting displays a knife she uses ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:45:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman who performs genital cutting displays a knife she uses to perform the procedure. Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region.(AFP/File/Kambou Sia)

South Korea's health ministry announced it would spend 193 ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:21:13 GMT

(AFP/File) - South Korea's health ministry announced it would spend 193 billion won (152 million dollars) to secure vaccines against swine flu for 13 million people -- more than a quarter of the population.(AFP/File/Alix Guigon)

People who live alone in middle age face nearly double the risk ...

(BMJ) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:07:19 GMT

(BMJ) - People who live alone in middle age face nearly double the risk of developing cognitive problems in later life compared with married or cohabiting counterparts, according to a study published Friday.(BMJ)

A woman looks at her reflection in a mirror. Repeating positive ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:32:54 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman looks at her reflection in a mirror. Repeating positive statements such as "I am a lovable person" or "I will succeed" makes some people feel worse about themselves instead of raising their self-esteem, a study showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)

Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:03:52 GMT

(AFP/File) - Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). The World Health Organization on Thursday vowed poor countries in the Americas would receive enough antivirals to combat the swine flu outbreak, amid fresh concern over the epidemic's spread.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)

Travellers wear facemasks as they leave the international airport ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:41:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - Travellers wear facemasks as they leave the international airport in Buenos Aires in April 2009. Britain's health secretary warned Thursday the country could soon face more than 100,000 daily cases of swine flu, while fears linked to the virus soared in Argentina after the death toll nearly doubled.(AFP/File/Daniel Garcia)

DNA test kits for the the A(H1N1) or swine flu virus at a British ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:41:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - DNA test kits for the the A(H1N1) or swine flu virus at a British lab. Britain's health secretary warned Thursday the country could soon face more than 100,000 daily cases of swine flu, while fears linked to the virus soared in Argentina after the death toll nearly doubled.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:12 GMT

(AFP/File) - Boxes of the antiviral drug Tamiflu prescribed for influenza A (H1N1). A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.(AFP/File/Carlos Jasso)

An Alzheimers patient at a hospital. US health care giant Johnson ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:01 GMT

(AFP/File) - An Alzheimers patient at a hospital. US health care giant Johnson & Johnson is to take up an 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan and acquire rights to Elan's Alzheimer's disease trial drugs, the companies said Thursday.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)

A Royal Bengal tiger walks inside its cage at the Karachi zoo, ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:17:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Royal Bengal tiger walks inside its cage at the Karachi zoo, in 2005. Police in southeastern Bangladesh arrested a man Thursday for beating an endangered Bengal tiger to death after it strayed into a village. The IUCN Red List estimates there are less than 2,500 Bengal tigers left in the world with as few as 200 of those in Bangladesh.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)

Michel Sidibe, seen here at the Thirteenth International Conference ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:06:09 GMT

(AFP/File) - Michel Sidibe, seen here at the Thirteenth International Conference on AIDS in Africa in 2003. Sidibe, the head of the UNAIDS agency, said the global economic crisis poses a "major threat" to the fight against AIDS in Africa as funding for treatment programmes dries up. He said 96 percent of Africans receiving AIDS medications depend on aid from rich countries.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)

Arne Soerensen, a retired Danish doctor and expert on kidney ...

(AFP/Scanpix/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:47 GMT

(AFP/Scanpix/File) - Arne Soerensen, a retired Danish doctor and expert on kidney diseases, poses with his book at his home in Aalborg. In the book, he argues that Napoleon Bonaparte did not die from poisoning, but from kidney and urinary problems, which inflicted him for many years.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Henning Bagger)

Retired Danish doctor Arne Soerensen and his wife Birte pose ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:47 GMT

(AFP) - Retired Danish doctor Arne Soerensen and his wife Birte pose at their home in the northern Danish city of Aalborg. The kidney specialist says he found the cause of death of Napoleon: he died of a kidney infection and not of poisonning.(AFP/Slim Allagui)

A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:55 GMT

(AFP/File) - A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

A man wears a face mask at Rio de Janeiro's international ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:46:40 GMT

(AFP/File) - A man wears a face mask at Rio de Janeiro's international airport in May 2009. The number of swine flu cases in Turkey has reached 40 after another three people were diagnosed with the desease, the health ministry has said.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)

A woman has her temperature taken at the swine flu clinic at ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:51:23 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman has her temperature taken at the swine flu clinic at the Banyule Community Health Centre in Melbourne in June 2009. Australian authorities have told parents not to panic after the country announced its first child death linked to swine flu.(AFP/File/William West)

Retired Danish doctor Arne Soerensen shows a book on Napoleon ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:20:14 GMT

(AFP) - Retired Danish doctor Arne Soerensen shows a book on Napoleon in his library in the northern Danish city of Aalborg. The kidney specialist, whose library contains over 500 books on the French emperor, wrote "Napoleons Nyrer" (Napoleon's Kidneys"), which was published in May.(AFP/Slim Allagui)

Strips used to test samples for signs of the swine flu virus ...

(AFP/DDP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:28:12 GMT

(AFP/DDP/File) - Strips used to test samples for signs of the swine flu virus at a laboratory in Hanover. Policy makers from 50 countries are to gather in Mexico on Thursday to discuss their response to this year's swine flu outbreak, as South America continues to be hit by new cases.(AFP/DDP/File/Nigel Treblin)

The United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:53:11 GMT

(AFP/File) - The United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, with two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, according to an annual report(AFP/File/Greg Wood)

In the past year, nearly half of the 50 US states saw obesity ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:53:11 GMT

(AFP/File) - In the past year, nearly half of the 50 US states saw obesity rates rise and no state saw a fall in the number of people who were obese, according to the sixth annual "F as in Fat" report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.(AFP/File)

A smoker shows a package of Zyban. The US Food and Drug Administration ...

(AFP/BELGA/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:46:10 GMT

(AFP/BELGA/File) - A smoker shows a package of Zyban. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered Pfizer, which makes Chantix, and GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Zyban, to place a warning highlighting the "risk of serious mental health events" when taking the drugs, including behavior changes, depression, hostility and suicidal thoughts.(AFP/BELGA/File/Robert Vanden Brugge)

A picture shows the logo of US drug giant Pfizer at the Paris ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:34:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - A picture shows the logo of US drug giant Pfizer at the Paris headquarters in March 2009. US federal drug regulators on Wednesday required manufacturer to warn against the mental health dangers, including suicidal thoughts, of two popular anti-smoking drugs.(AFP/File/Boris Horvat)

Human Rights Watch (HRW), a US-based rights group, urged Rwanda ...

(HRW) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:43:06 GMT

(HRW) - Human Rights Watch (HRW), a US-based rights group, urged Rwanda to revise a draft law which it said would introduce compulsory HIV testing and require all people with mental disabilities to be sterilized.(HRW)

A patient is pictured in the smoking area of Saint Jean de Dieu ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:15:27 GMT

(AFP/File) - A patient is pictured in the smoking area of Saint Jean de Dieu pyschiatric hospital in Lyon, France in 2006. Three teams of scientists said on Wednesday they had identified hundreds of tiny genetic variants that together account for more than a third of the inherited risk for schizophrenia.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)

Experts perform in-vitro fertilization in 2006. Test-tube fertilisation ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:07:37 GMT

(AFP/File) - Experts perform in-vitro fertilization in 2006. Test-tube fertilisation in Europe has scaled a record high for success while also reducing the risk of multiple births, fertility experts reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)

A nurse gives medicine to combat onchocerciasis or river blindness, ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:35:34 GMT

(AFP/File) - A nurse gives medicine to combat onchocerciasis or river blindness, caused by a parasitic worm and spread by the bite of an infected blackfly in the Ivorian town of Kouadioa-Allaikro, 2008. The World Health Organisation said it was launching a clinical trial for a drug that could halve the treatment period for river blindness, a disease that threatens 100 million people mostly in Africa.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

Strips used to test samples for signs of the swine flu virus ...

(AFP/DDP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:31:00 GMT

(AFP/DDP/File) - Strips used to test samples for signs of the swine flu virus at a laboratory in Hanover. Existing anti-viral treatments are effective against swine flu, the World Health Organisation insisted, describing a reported case of resistance to Tamiflu as an isolated case.(AFP/DDP/File/Nigel Treblin)

Two nurses wait for people to arrive at the swine flu clinic ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:27:09 GMT

(AFP/File) - Two nurses wait for people to arrive at the swine flu clinic at the Banyule Community Health Centre, Melbourne, June 2009. Australian police and medical authorities are investigating the death of a three-year-old boy who tested positive for swine flu, officials said(AFP/File/William West)

Framed by tobacco smoke, a man smokes a cigarette in Athens, ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:03:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - Framed by tobacco smoke, a man smokes a cigarette in Athens, 2006. Wielding high fines, Greece's health ministry launched a nationwide smoking ban -- the third this decade -- in a bid to eliminate the habit in Europe's most nicotine-addicted nation.(AFP/File/Aris Messinis)

Greek riot police smoke cigarettes while watching a student ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:03:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - Greek riot police smoke cigarettes while watching a student demonstration in the center of Athens, 2008. Wielding high fines, Greece's health ministry has launched a nationwide smoking ban -- the third this decade -- in a bid to eliminate the habit in Europe's most nicotine-addicted nation.(AFP/File/Aris Messinis)

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has announced it is launching ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:49:11 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has announced it is launching a programme to produce and store anti-flu drug Tamiflu pandemic stockpiles for developing countries at a sharply discounted price. The programme for Tamiflu is designed to act as a "pandemic insurance policy for the world's developing economies," said the Basel-based group(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)

Doctors perform heart surgery. A protein known as a key indicator ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:45:01 GMT

(AFP/File) - Doctors perform heart surgery. A protein known as a key indicator of inflammation in the body and thought to cause heart disease is not linked to development of the fatal ailment, according to a British study published Tuesday.(AFP/File/Arnaud Roux)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, pictured on June 22, 2009, ...

(AFP/Pool/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:55:08 GMT

(AFP/Pool/File) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, pictured on June 22, 2009, Tuesday called for a tougher fight against alcoholism in Russia, voicing concern that Russian drinking was worse than in the bleak 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.(AFP/Pool/File/Yuri Kadobnov)

South African Minister of health Aaron Motsoaledi addresses ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:03:10 GMT

(AFP/File) - South African Minister of health Aaron Motsoaledi addresses the media as striking doctors march through the streets of Pretoria in May 2009. South Africa's health minister on Tuesday admitted serious challenges in public health, as the government came up with a revised wage offer to stop an illegal doctors strikes.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)

A Saudi policeman helps an elderly Muslim pilgrim to climb steps ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:37:17 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Saudi policeman helps an elderly Muslim pilgrim to climb steps at the site of the "Jamarat" ritual, the last and most dangerous rite of the annual hajj which symbolises stoning Satan, in the Saudi holy city of Mina in 2008. Saudi Arabia warned elderly Muslims and pregnant women on Tuesday against undertaking the hajj pilgrimage this year as the threat threat of swine flu mounts worldwide.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)

European Union Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou holds ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:14:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - European Union Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou holds a press conference in June 2009 in Luxembourg. The European Union commission on Tuesday called for public places throughout Europe to be smoke-free by 2012 in order to tackle the deadly effects of passive smoking.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)

Greek Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, seen here on May ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:06:17 GMT

(AFP/File) - Greek Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, seen here on May 2009, speaks during a meeting at the National Health Operation Center in Athens. Greece, Europe's heaviest-smoking nation, introduces a tobacco ban in public places on July 1, its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the country's love affair with cigarettes.(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)

Greece, Europe's heaviest-smoking nation, introduces a tobacco ...

(afp.com) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:06:17 GMT

(afp.com) - Greece, Europe's heaviest-smoking nation, introduces a tobacco ban in public places on July 1, its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the country's love affair with cigarettes. Duration: 01:38(afp.com)