http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The death toll from a killer E. coli outbreak centred in Germany has risen to 50 with another death in Germany and one in the United States, health authorities said Thursday. http://phys.org/news228666230.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:24:07 EST news228666230 An elderly man has become the latest fatality from an outbreak of a killer strain of E. coli bacteria in Germany, bringing the death toll to at least 38, authorities said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news227351592.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:13:34 EST news227351592 New research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is helping Duvas Technologies Ltd (Duvas) to develop improved air quality monitoring instrumentation. Currently over 1bn people a year suffer from respiratory disease associated with pollution, and according to the World Health Organisation, over 3m a year die from its effects. Duvas is planning to help provide technology to understand and address this problem. http://phys.org/news226056395.html Technology Tue, 31 May 2011 10:26:55 EST news226056395 The World Health Organisation had problems handling the swine flu epidemic, but there was no evidence it tried to boost vaccine makers, the UN body's member countries agreed on Friday. http://phys.org/news225116921.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 May 2011 13:28:54 EST news225116921 In the opening editorial to the latest edition of the Journal of Radiological Protection, published today, Wednesday 18 May, radiological protection expert Professor Richard Wakeford of the Dalton Nuclear Institute, The University of Manchester, gives a detailed account of events at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station, and poses several questions that remain unanswered, several weeks on from the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. http://phys.org/news224930543.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 09:42:32 EST news224930543 Initial test results indicate that a 12-year-old girl died of the deadly Ebola virus in a town about 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Kampala, health officials told AFP on Saturday. http://phys.org/news224676872.html Medicine & Health Sun, 15 May 2011 11:16:07 EST news224676872 The wrong approach to wiping out the mosquitoes that cause dengue infections could lead to worse epidemics in the future, according to a study released Tuesday. http://phys.org/news223621285.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 May 2011 06:30:01 EST news223621285 The World Health Organisation will help India study whether a multi-drug resistant "superbug" allegedly found in New Delhi's water poses a health risk, a report Thursday said. http://phys.org/news221985936.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:40:01 EST news221985936 On Tonga's supermarket shelves, huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts long ago -- contributing to an obesity epidemic that sees the Pacific region ranked as the fattest in the world. http://phys.org/news221655706.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:02:14 EST news221655706 The World Health Organisation on Wednesday urged donors to stamp out multidrug-resistant tuberculosis after the number of the hard-to-treat strains of the lung disease doubled in recent years. http://phys.org/news220113133.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:32:29 EST news220113133 A UN agency that monitors for clandestine nuclear tests said Friday it was sharing its data about radioactivity levels in Japan with the world body's atomic watchdog and health organisation. http://phys.org/news219680548.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:22:49 EST news219680548 Japan's nuclear crisis has sparked panic buying of iodine pills, with online bids exceeding $500 for a single packet, but health experts hosed down the hysteria and warned the pills are of limited use. http://phys.org/news219387095.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:51:53 EST news219387095 Flu vaccines made from lab-grown cells work at least as well as those derived from viruses cultivated in chicken eggs, the preferred method for 50 years, according to a study released Wednesday. http://phys.org/news217016006.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:13:42 EST news217016006 The World Health Organisation is advising people engage in at least 150 minutes of "moderate" physical exercise a week to reduce the risk of breast and colon cancers, in new recommendations published Friday. http://phys.org/news215980455.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:34:28 EST news215980455 French health watchdogs said on Wednesday the country was officially in the grip of a flu epidemic after 176,000 people had fallen sick, two of whom have died. http://phys.org/news212838006.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:50:01 EST news212838006 Scientists at the University of Leeds are joining the global fight to eradicate polio by developing a new type of vaccine that can trick the body to develop immunity against the disease. http://phys.org/news211543105.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:40:01 EST news211543105 Health issues facing so-called "megacities" like Tokyo, Mumbai or New York are poised to become a huge challenge for global policy as the cities grow, experts at the World Health Summit said. http://phys.org/news206076973.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:20:01 EST news206076973 Scientists have developed a new test which can diagnose tuberculosis in one hour, potentially helping to curb the spread of the disease, a British health agency said in a study Wednesday. http://phys.org/news203746389.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:13:20 EST news203746389 The World Health Organisation on Friday called on health authorities around the globe to monitor a multi-drug resistant superbug that surfaced in South Asia and spread to Britain. http://phys.org/news201528869.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:40:02 EST news201528869 Five of the 15 experts that advised the World Health Organisation about swine flu pandemic alerts had received support from the drugs industry, including for flu vaccine research, the WHO revealed on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news200742869.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:54:49 EST news200742869 University of Queensland research has found the Nanopatch - a needle-free, pain-free method of vaccine delivery - is now dissolvable, eliminating the possibility of needle-stick injury. http://phys.org/news199102072.html Nanotechnology Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:30:01 EST news199102072 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Sydney have found the combined intake of iron-folic acid supplements with World Health Organisation (WHO)-endorsed anti-malarial drugs during pregnancy could reduce early infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa by a quarter. http://phys.org/news199041989.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:00:04 EST news199041989 Women who attend programmes with ongoing support about healthy eating are less likely to gain weight and be more physically active than women who receive a one-off information session on dietary guidelines, finds an Australian study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://phys.org/news198300291.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:25:06 EST news198300291 More than nine out of ten cases of tuberculosis, which kills 1.8 million people each year, could be averted by 2050 with better testing, drugs and vaccines, according to a major review released Wednesday. http://phys.org/news193432561.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 May 2010 21:00:01 EST news193432561 World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan said Monday that the world had been "lucky" with the swine flu pandemic after the virus failed to mutate to a more deadly form. http://phys.org/news193317977.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 May 2010 13:00:01 EST news193317977 (PhysOrg.com) -- The prevalence of childhood obesity might be stabilising in developed countries, but there is still much to be done to combat this major threat to health, according to a Seminar co-authored by Professor Debbie Lawlor of the Department of Social Medicine in an upcoming issue of The Lancet. http://phys.org/news192376797.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 May 2010 16:30:05 EST news192376797 Health experts on Monday began a WHO probe into the controversial response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, nearly a year after global alarm was raised over the new swine flu strain. http://phys.org/news190270072.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:00:01 EST news190270072 What gives a guy the best chances of attracting a girl? Should he be metrosexual or macho? http://phys.org/news187989746.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:23:03 EST news187989746 An outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Marshall Islands has been declared a public health emergency, as the government Saturday considered invoking special powers of quarantine. http://phys.org/news184082162.html Medicine & Health Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:58:26 EST news184082162 US researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday. http://phys.org/news181245375.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:56:53 EST news181245375