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Cruise ships' toilets dirty

18/11/2009

Going on a cruise? To cut your risk of getting sick while sailing the high seas, avoid using the ship's public bathrooms.

 
 
 

Cause of death in SA

17/11/2009

Although HIV/Aids is gaining acceptance as a cause of death in South Africa, the leading causes are tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia.

 
 
 

Thin line between love and jealousy

13/11/2009

Scientists have discovered that the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin, which affects behaviours such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviours, such as jealousy.

 
 
 

Man eats a kilo of metal

12/11/2009

Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said.

 
 
 

Sick baby allowed to die

11/11/2009

A seriously ill baby at the centre of a court battle between his parents in Britain will be allowed to die after his father dropped his objection to switching off his ventilator.

 
 
 

Divorce expo in the city of love

9/11/2009

The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks on Sunday, as would-be divorces flocked by the thousands to the French capital's first annual divorce fair.

 
 
 

Palms, feet, forearms germ hotbeds

6/11/2009

A new "atlas" of bacterial life on and within the human body has uncovered the fact that your palms, feet and forearms are a veritable United Nations of germs.

 
 
 

Married+children=happiness

5/11/2009

Want to be a happy married couple? Consider having kids.

 
 
 

Babys right to die: mom fights dad

4/11/2009

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".

 
 
 

1st new lupus drug in decades

3/11/2009

Human Genome Sciences and GSK said their experimental lupus treatment passed another key goal on its path to potentially becoming the first new drug for the disease in decades.

 
 
 
 

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