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                  as of Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:22:18 GMT

    WHO backs away from 150 million flu deaths (Reuters)

Reuters - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday 2-7.4
 million deaths was a reasonable working forecast for a global influenza
 pandemic -- distancing itself from a top U.N. official's figure of up
 to 150 million.

    Health services not meeting obesity challenge-experts (Reuters)

Reuters - Healthcare systems have failed to come to grips with the
 global obesity epidemic and its serious health consequences, leading
 experts said on Friday.

    PDAs expected to change healthcare in future (Reuters)

Reuters - Personal digital assistants (PDAs) could change the way
 healthcare is delivered in the future by providing doctors with easy
 access to patient data and the latest information on treatment.

    1.4 million children could be saved with vaccines (Reuters)

Reuters - An estimated 1.4 children under five years of age die
 unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough or tetanus, all of
 them preventable with vaccines, the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF,
 reported on Thursday.

    High Blood Pressure Can Be Lethal in Overweight (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A major longitudinal
 study confirms what experts have long suspected: High blood pressure is
 key to the increased risk of fatal heart attack and stroke in
 overweight and obese people.

    Urine test spots chlamydia in male teens (Reuters)

Reuters - Sexually active male adolescents quite often have the sexually
 transmitted infection Chlamydia trachomatis but don't know it.
 Investigators in California have found that routine urine screening for
 chlamydia is an effective means of diagnosing these infections in
 sexually active young men.

    Insurers Court Elderly for Medicare Plan (AP)

AP - The hard sell began Saturday as dozens of private insurers tried to
 sign up some 42 million older and disabled people for the government's
 new Medicare prescription drug benefit.

    Insurance for Infertility Treatment Lags (AP)

AP - Alyce Robins counts herself among the lucky ones. After seven
 rounds of infertility treatment, she had a baby girl, and her health
 insurance paid for nearly everything -- costs totaling well over
 $30,000. The 34-year-old suburban Chicago woman is also one of the rare
 ones.

    Merck, Takeda join forces to develop anti-cancer treatment (AFP)

AFP - German pharmaceuticals specialist Merck said it is teaming up with
 Japanese rival Takeda to jointly develop and market Merck's Matuzumab
 cancer treatment, currently in Phase II of clinical trials.

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