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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)

Graphic fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:22:57 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Graphic fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/Graphic)

Fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. Breast ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:08 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/Graphic)

A nun wearing a T-shirt with the words, "Every Life Counts" ...

(AFP) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:59:25 GMT

(AFP) - A nun wearing a T-shirt with the words, "Every Life Counts" takes part in a demonstration to protest the government's law about abortion in Madrid. More than one million people took to the streets of Madrid Saturday to condemn plans by the socialist government to liberalise the abortion laws in the overwhelmingly Catholic country, organisers said.(AFP/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)

A diet heavy in processed and fatty foods increases the risk ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:41:54 GMT

(AFP/File) - A diet heavy in processed and fatty foods increases the risk of depression, according to researchers at University College London.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)

Switzerland restricted the use of British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline's ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:08 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Switzerland restricted the use of British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, excluding pregnant women, minors and people over the age of 60, regulators said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Greedy)

A bag containing seized ecstasy pills. The government's ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:02:17 GMT

(AFP/File) - A bag containing seized ecstasy pills. The government's chief drug adviser has criticised the current classification of substances, claiming that alcohol and tobacco were both more harmful than ecstasy, LSD and cannabis.(AFP/File/Douanes Francaises)

Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon is seen here in Mexico ...

(AFP/File) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:12:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon is seen here in Mexico City, in August, during the XVII International AIDS Conference. Ban Ki-moon hailed US President Barack Obama's removal of a decades-old travel ban on HIV-positive visitors, and urged other countries to do the same.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)

Jade Jarqurn (L) receives a H1N1 nasal flu spray vaccine from ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:12:31 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Jade Jarqurn (L) receives a H1N1 nasal flu spray vaccine from nurse Shajaira Powell-Bailey at the Broadmoor Elementary school on October 19, in Miami, Florida. Up to 5.7 million people in the United States may have been infected with swine flu in the first four months of the outbreak, or more than 100 times the number of laboratory-confirmed cases that were reported, a study said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)

People hold banner from the Right to Live charity during an ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:06:22 GMT

(AFP/File) - People hold banner from the Right to Live charity during an anti-abortion demonstration in Madrid in March. Opponents of abortion from across Catholic Spain are gathering in to condemn plans by the socialist government to allow women as young as 16 to terminate pregnancies without their parents' consent.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)

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

(AFP/File) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:31:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - Medical masks on display at the Hyatt Regency Washington Hotel in Washington, DC. A timely sneeze made Americans more likely to back substantial government spending on health care than on job creation, a study concluded Monday.(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)

A man holding a banner with caricatures of Spanish Prime Minister ...

(AFP) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:59:25 GMT

(AFP) - A man holding a banner with caricatures of Spanish Prime Minister Jose luis Rodriguez Zapatero and First Vice President and Minister of the Presidency Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega takes part in a demonstration to protest against the government's law about abortion in Madrid.(AFP/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)

An AIDS patient joins AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and other ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:24:01 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - An AIDS patient joins AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and other AIDS patients in a protest rally in June 2009 in Hollywood, California. The United States is poised to lift a decades-old ban on HIV-positive visitors from abroad that was based on fear and ignorance of the facts, President Barack Obama said Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)

File photo shows a woman undergoing a mammogram scan at a hospital ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:22:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - File photo shows a woman undergoing a mammogram scan at a hospital in Paris. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)

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)

A photo provided by the Ukrainian prime minister's press ...

(AFP/HO) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:19:50 GMT

(AFP/HO) - A photo provided by the Ukrainian prime minister's press service shows Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaking during a cabinet meeting in Kiev. Tymoshenko has ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine's schools and cinemas in the toughest measures adopted yet to combat the swine flu virus in Europe.(AFP/HO/Alexander Prokopenko)

Patients infected with leptospirosis, a bacterial disease usually ...

(AFP) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:38:00 GMT

(AFP) - Patients infected with leptospirosis, a bacterial disease usually caused by exposure to water contaminated with rat urine, crowd the lobby of a state-run medical centre in Marikina City in suburban Manila. More than a million flood survivors are getting antibiotics to help them resist a deadly bacterial outbreak, one of several diseases menacing crowded evacuation centres.(AFP/Jay Directo)

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)