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Europe's Freeze: Why Climate Change Is Not Fully to Blame

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Tue, 02/14/2012 - 00:35

How can the continental U.S. and Europe be experiencing such radically different winters?


 

Highest level of drug-resistant TB found in Europe

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:06

Highest level of drug-resistant TB found in Europe Experts said trends in drug-resistant TB in most countries "are still unclear." In research published in the February edition of WHO's journal, Bulletin, experts reported that about 29 percent of new TB patients in parts of Russia were drug-resistant.


 

US: Don't publish all details of lab-bred bird flu

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:04

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government asked scientists Tuesday not to reveal all the details of how to make a version of the deadly bird flu that they created in labs in the U.S. and Europe....


 

WHO issues Europe measles warning

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Fri, 12/02/2011 - 07:12

European countries need to act now to tackle measles outbreaks, the World Health Organization warns.


 

Ruling 'threatens stem cell work'

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Tue, 10/18/2011 - 06:23

Europe's highest court has ruled that stem cells from human embryos cannot be patented, in a case that could have major implications for medicine.


 

E. coli crisis 'not Europe-wide'

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Tue, 06/07/2011 - 03:17

The EU health commissioner says the E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 is limited geographically and does not need Europe-wide controls.


 

Oregon woman develops foreign accent after surgery

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sun, 06/05/2011 - 18:53

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny.

A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, and her story has traveled around the world....


 

4 in US now linked to German E. coli outbreak

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 06/03/2011 - 17:04

ATLANTA (AP) -- Four people in the U.S. were apparently sickened by the food poisoning outbreak in Europe, health officials said Friday.

Three are hospitalized with a serious complication....


 

U.S. Possibly Touched by Deadly E. Coli Strain

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 06/03/2011 - 16:51

(MedPage Today) -- Four Americans are suspected of being infected with the new deadly strain of Escherichia coli that is rapidly spreading across Europe.


 

Scientists probe deadly cucumbers

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Mon, 05/30/2011 - 09:01

Germans are warned not to eat cucumbers until tests identify the source of a E.coli outbreak that has reportedly killed 13 and spread across Europe.