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US President Barack Obama (C) walks out of the Caucus Room with ...

(AFP) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:07:06 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama (C) walks out of the Caucus Room with House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (L) and Congressman John Larson (2nd R) after a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Obama hoped to bring the full persuasive power of the US presidency to bear in an 11th-hour push to secure the 218 votes needed to pass health care overhaul.(AFP/Jim Watson)

US President Barack Obama (C) shakes hands with Speaker of the ...

(AFP) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:07:06 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama (C) shakes hands with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (2nd L) as he walks out of the Caucus Room with House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (L) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, (R) after a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.(AFP/Jim Watson)

Protestors wave flags during a news conference "To Make ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:07:06 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Protestors wave flags during a news conference "To Make a Healthcare 'House Call' on Washington" at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. The US House of Representatives opened a historic debate Saturday on remaking US health care, with President Barack Obama set to make a rare in-person appeal for his top domestic priority.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kris Connor)

A Palestinian pilgrim receives an H1N1 flu jab at Gaza's ...

(AFP) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:16 GMT

(AFP) - A Palestinian pilgrim receives an H1N1 flu jab at Gaza's southern Rafah crossing with Egypt as worshippers head to the annual pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Saudi Arabia has begun vaccinating its population against swine flu, with priority going to government employees working on the annual hajj pilgrimage that takes place later this month.(AFP/Said Khatib)

The US flag flies above the Capitol building in Washington, ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:16:12 GMT

(AFP/File) - The US flag flies above the Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, is to make a rare in-person plea for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to remake US health care.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)

US President Barack Obama speaks about healthcare reform legislation ...

(AFP) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:16:12 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama speaks about healthcare reform legislation during a daily press briefing in the White House. Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, is to make a rare in-person plea for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to remake US health care(AFP/Saul Loeb)

Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:30 GMT

(AFP/File) - Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.(AFP/File)

An aerial view shows the southern Sudanese town of Malakal, ...

(AFP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:52:20 GMT

(AFP) - An aerial view shows the southern Sudanese town of Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned on Friday.(AFP/Peter Martell)

Sudanese children recover from the kala azar disease in the ...

(AFP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:52:20 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese children recover from the kala azar disease in the grounds of a hospital in Malakal. Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned on Friday.(AFP/Peter Martell)

A southern Sudanese man recovers from the kala azar disease ...

(AFP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:52:20 GMT

(AFP) - A southern Sudanese man recovers from the kala azar disease at a hospital in Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has warned.(AFP/Peter Martell)

AIDS ribbons. Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda's ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:03:52 GMT

(AFP/File) - AIDS ribbons. Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda's HIV/AIDS bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status.(AFP/File)

Activists from a Ukrainian youth political organization burn ...

(AFP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:51:56 GMT

(AFP) - Activists from a Ukrainian youth political organization burn a symbolic protective mask during a prostes against swine flu (H1N1) fears organized, in their opinion, by the government. The number of swine flu deaths has grown by more than 370 over a week to pass 6,000, as the pandemic spread into more than 199 countries and territories, World Health Organisation data showed(AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

A cow is milked at a farm in Germany.The World Health Organisation ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:21:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - A cow is milked at a farm in Germany.The World Health Organisation has called for close monitoring of farm workers and animals for influenza A viruses, following recent cases in a wider range of creatures than pigs.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)

Infants and their mothers are cared for on in a ward at the ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:06:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - Infants and their mothers are cared for on in a ward at the main hospital in Juba, southern Sudan, in April. Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has warned.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

A Sudanese child recovers from the kala azar disease at a hospital ...

(AFP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:54:26 GMT

(AFP) - A Sudanese child recovers from the kala azar disease at a hospital in Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned(AFP/Peter Martell)

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Friday it is cooperating ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:38:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Friday it is cooperating with South Korean investigators who are looking into alleged illegal sales of its swine flu treatment Tamiflu.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)

So far, Citigroup has requested 2,200 H1N1 vaccines and received ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:31:34 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - So far, Citigroup has requested 2,200 H1N1 vaccines and received 1,200, according to health department figures. News that US swine flu vaccines, meant to be prioritized for the nation's most vulnerable, are being distributed to Wall Street firms have sparked uproar.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)

A nurse is pictured filling a syringe with the H1N1 vaccine. ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:31:34 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A nurse is pictured filling a syringe with the H1N1 vaccine. News that US swine flu vaccines, meant to be prioritized for the nation's most vulnerable, are being distributed to Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, have sparked uproar.(AFP/Getty Images/File/George Frey)

Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. A breakthrough mix ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:09:38 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)

The logo of the US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA). The US ...

(FDA) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:22:55 GMT

(FDA) - The logo of the US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA). The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could be dangerous.(FDA)

This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Scientists ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:23 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Scientists reported Thursday that nano-particles used in medical applications can indirectly damage DNA inside cells by transmitting signals through a protective barrier of human tissue.(AFP/HO/File)

Picture taken in August 2009, a medical laboratory technician ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:26:00 GMT

(AFP/File) - Picture taken in August 2009, a medical laboratory technician conducts a HIV test in a government hospital in Jakarta. Waning international donor support for the fight against AIDS is a threat to a decade of progress in HIV treatment, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko visits a children ...

(AFP/Pool) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:11:06 GMT

(AFP/Pool) - Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko visits a children hospital in western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. Health authorities in Ukraine said Thursday the death toll from an outbreak of flu and respiratory infections had risen to 95, but added the epidemic showed signs of easing.(AFP/Pool/Alexander Prokopenko)

South Sudanese infants and their mothers are cared for in a ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:56:52 GMT

(AFP/File) - South Sudanese infants and their mothers are cared for in a malaria ward at the main hospital in Juba in April 2009. Millions of people in South Sudan and Darfur face dire and worsening health conditions and a severe shortage of care, the World Health Organisation warned Thursday.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

A police officer opens a bag of cocaine that was seized in 2008. ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - A police officer opens a bag of cocaine that was seized in 2008. Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, an annual report into drug use and addiction showed on Thursday.(AFP/File/Elmer Martinez)

Spanish police unload a shipment of cocaine that was intercepted ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - Spanish police unload a shipment of cocaine that was intercepted in northwestern Spain. Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, according to an annual report into drug use and addiction by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)

A bag containing seized ecstasy pills. Cocaine's relentless ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - A bag containing seized ecstasy pills. Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, according to an annual report into drug use and addiction by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.(AFP/File/Douanes Francaises)

A man smokes a cannabis joint. Cocaine's relentless march ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:18:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - A man smokes a cannabis joint. Cocaine's relentless march through Europe's social order showed no sign of abating in 2009, according to an annual report into drug use and addiction by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.(AFP/File/Thomas Wirth)

A scientist prepares a DNA test for the swine flu virus. The ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:16 GMT

(AFP/File) - A scientist prepares a DNA test for the swine flu virus. The World Health Organisation has urged people not to drop their guard over the swine flu pandemic and insisted on the value of vaccination despite the broadly mild symptoms of the virus.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)

An Afghan woman wears a protective mask in Kabul. The World ...

(AFP) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:16 GMT

(AFP) - An Afghan woman wears a protective mask in Kabul. The World Health Organisation has urged people not to drop their guard over the swine flu pandemic and insisted on the value of vaccination despite the broadly mild symptoms of the virus.(AFP/Shah Marai)

'Baby Z' is pictured in Melbourne. The Australian baby ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:05:57 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - 'Baby Z' is pictured in Melbourne. The Australian baby has become the first person to be cured of a rare and often fatal brain-poisoning condition thanks to an experimental treatment previously tested only on mice.(AFP/HO/File)

Cats are pictured at an animal shelter. Vets in the US state ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:24:58 GMT

(AFP/File) - Cats are pictured at an animal shelter. Vets in the US state of Iowa said Wednesday that a household cat had tested positive for swine flu -- the first known case in the world of the new pandemic strain spreading to the feline population.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)

Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

(AFP/Getty Images) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:15:04 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images) - Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a hearing before the Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill. Swine flu infections in the United States will be past their peak when (A)H1N1 vaccine becomes readily available, Frieden said Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong)

Children have fun swimming in a water reservoir about 30 kms ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:19 GMT

(AFP/File) - Children have fun swimming in a water reservoir about 30 kms outside of Praia. Businesses, schools and government offices will shut in Cape Verde Friday for a day of mobilisation to try to curb a dengue epidemic which has killed four people since Sunday, authorities announced Wednesday.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)

A man disinfects his hands after bringing a cholera patient ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:27:23 GMT

(AFP/File) - A man disinfects his hands after bringing a cholera patient to a medical centre. A fresh cholera outbreak has killed 20 people and left 200 others infected in northern Nigeria's Adamawa State in the past week, a senior health official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Seyllou)

Pills of Oseltamivir, a drug similar to the Tamiflu in July ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:17:38 GMT

(AFP/File) - Pills of Oseltamivir, a drug similar to the Tamiflu in July 2009. The Netherlands reported its first case of drug-resistant swine flu on Wednesday, but said this was "no reason for panic".(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)

A Pakistani woman mourns the death of her relative outside a ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:58:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Pakistani woman mourns the death of her relative outside a hospital after a suicide bomb blast in Rawalpindi on November 2. Pakistanis are "losing quality of life", constantly in a state of fear and anxiety which is leading to ailments as well as sleep disorders.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)

Pakistani policemen check a motorcyclist as they cordon off ...

(AFP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:58:50 GMT

(AFP) - Pakistani policemen check a motorcyclist as they cordon off a street after a suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi. The indiscriminate killing, beamed into living rooms by television channels broadcasting round the clock, is cultivating a state of fear and uncertainty across Pakistan.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)

Pakistani men try to identify their relatives' bodies at ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:58:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - Pakistani men try to identify their relatives' bodies at a hospital after a suicide bomb blast in Rawalpindi on November 2. The bomb site, still blocked by police, is about 200 metres (yards) from army headquarters where last month 10 gunmen kept up a nearly 24-hour siege that left 23 people dead and deeply embarrassed the military.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)

An Ukrainian undertaker, wearing a protective mask, carries ...

(AFP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:34:59 GMT

(AFP) - An Ukrainian undertaker, wearing a protective mask, carries a cross in front of his office in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Eighty-six people have died in Ukraine from flu and respiratory infections, the health ministry said, in an epidemic the World Health Organisation said could be largely due to the A(H1N1) virus.(AFP/Yuriy Dyachyshyn)

A laboratory technician collects a blood sample from a infant ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:49:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - A laboratory technician collects a blood sample from a infant suspected to have malaria in Bagamoyo, north of Dar es Salaam in October 2009. The most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far should be ready for use in three to five years after Phase three trials began in May, researchers have said.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

Burkina Faso is to supply its entire population with six million ...

(AFPTV) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:49:49 GMT

(AFPTV) - Burkina Faso is to supply its entire population with six million mosquito nets after research has shown many of the mosquitoes in the country have developed resistance to insecticides. The development fuels a malaria crisis in the West African nation -- over a disease which claims the life of an African child every 30 seconds, and has one million victims worldwide. Duration: 02:03.(AFPTV)

A mother and her child sit on a bed covered with a mosquito ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:49:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - A mother and her child sit on a bed covered with a mosquito net near Bagamoyo, Tanzania in late October. Researchers have said the most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far should be ready for use in three to five years after Phase three trials began in May.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

Russian lab technician Natalya Lepyoshkina handles a jar of ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:03:47 GMT

(AFP/File) - Russian lab technician Natalya Lepyoshkina handles a jar of leeches at the International Medical Leech Centre not far from Moscow, in Udelnaya. Founded in 1937, the Centre raises three million specimens per year and touts itself as the world's largest leech-growing facility.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)

Known for its anaesthetic, anti-inflammatory and even antibiotic ...

(afp.com) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:03:47 GMT

(afp.com) - Known for its anaesthetic, anti-inflammatory and even antibiotic qualities, the leech is making a return to the world of medicine. In Russia, 10 times more of the blood-suckers are grown than anywhere else in the world and leech therapy is nothing new. Duration: 01:55(afp.com)

Leeches squirm inside glass jars at the International Medical ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:03:47 GMT

(AFP/File) - Leeches squirm inside glass jars at the International Medical Leech Centre not far from Moscow, in Udelnaya. Founded in 1937, the Centre raises three million specimens per year and touts itself as the world's largest leech-growing facility.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)

A child is seen staring behind a belly of his pregnant mother. ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:20:34 GMT

(AFP/File) - A child is seen staring behind a belly of his pregnant mother. Women who take folic acid supplements during the later months of pregnancy may be increasing their baby's risk of developing asthma, according to a newly released Australian study.(AFP/File/Choi Won-Suk)

Medical masks on display at the Hyatt Regency Washington Hotel ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:59:14 GMT

(AFP/File) - Medical masks on display at the Hyatt Regency Washington Hotel in Washington, DC. People over the age of 50 who are hospitalized with swine flu are the group most likely to die from the illness, but (A)H1N1 flu remains a young person's illness, US researchers said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

A woman wearing a mask passes by a monument of the Goddess of ...

(AFP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:15:11 GMT

(AFP) - A woman wearing a mask passes by a monument of the Goddess of the Hunt Diana and her dogs, which are also wearing protective masks, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that it was valid to assume that most of the cases of influenza reportedly sweeping through Ukraine were caused by the pandemic A(H1N1) virus.(AFP/Yuriy Dyachyshyn)

The statue of justice outside a British courthouse in London. ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:57:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - The statue of justice outside a British courthouse in London. A seriously ill baby whose parents are locked in a legal battle about whether to keep him on the ventilator which allows him to breathe is living "on a knife edge", the High Court in London heard.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)