Month: June 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there.

ROME (AP) — Three people were being treated Saturday for a new respiratory virus that is alarming global health officials, in the first cases in Italy, the country’s health ministry said.

ROME (AP) — Italy’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first case of a new respiratory virus that is alarming global health officials.

MOSCOW (AP) — A law that bans smoking in public places has taken effect in Russia, a contentious move in a country with one of the highest smoking rates in the world.

By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) – A cancer drug sold by GlaxoSmithKline was shown in a clinical trial to extend by several months the length of time ovarian cancer patients lived without their disease worsening. The findings suggest that the oral drug, Votrient, could be used as a “maintenance” therapy for many ovarian cancer patients whose disease had returned after initial surgery and chemotherapy. “This is the first positive clinical trial for a targeted agent in ovarian cancer,” said lead study author Dr. …

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic extremist rebels are fighting a campaign in Somalia to administer a polio vaccine, charging that it contains the virus that causes AIDS or could make children sterile, a battle of words that is frustrating health workers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there.