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BERLIN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Whether a child tends to eat healthy food, or processed or sweet foods, depends on the education and household income of the parents, said a new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition on Monday. Based on information from children from eight European countrie ...

BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) -- More than half of the proceeds from China's lottery ticket sales in the name of promoting social welfare will be used for the old-age service, according to a government document. Local governments have also been urged to improve their investment structure and increase s ...

BERLIN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Whether a child tends to eat healthy food, or processed or sweet foods, depends on the education and household income of the parents, said a new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition on Monday. Based on information from children from eight European countrie ...

WUHAN, April 3 (Xinhua) -- China will put more effort into training rural medical workers so that the country can meet the goal of having one doctor for every family by 2020, a senior medical official has pledged. Speaking at a medical industry conference which concluded on Friday, Li Bin, head of t ...

GAZA, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Gaza authorities said Monday that 800 chickens infected with bird flu have been culled. The chickens were tested at the Agriculture Ministry's labs where they were confirmed to have been infected with the virus, a veterinary official told Xinhua. The culling was made in li ...

LJUBLJANA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- A Slovenian citizen, suspected of being infected with Ebola, has passed his first medical test on Thursday after he was admitted to University Medical Centre Ljubljana (UKC) on Wednesday evening. The preliminary test results came back negative, UKC hospital announced ...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Food and Drug administration (FDA) on Monday warned consumers to stop using a dietary supplement for muscle growth linked to serious liver damage. The FDA said it's investigating Tri-Methyl Xtreme, distributed by Las Vegas-based Extreme Products Group, after ...

GAZA, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Gaza authorities said Monday that 800 chickens infected with bird flu have been culled. The chickens were tested at the Agriculture Ministry's labs where they were confirmed to have been infected with the virus, a veterinary official told Xinhua. The culling was made in li ...

MILAN, April 10 (Xinhua) -- For the first time in Italy, a patient received a kidney "for generosity" from a stranger, which created a domino effect leading to a total of six transplants, local authorities said Friday. The donor, a woman from the Italian northern city of Pavia, is unidentified as th ...

AMMAN, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian Health Ministry said Sunday five fatalities were reported from the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu since the beginning of 2015, the state-run Petra news agency reported. Deifallah Lozi, the ministry's secretary general, said about 130 cases of the influe ...

SINGAPORE, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Singapore has the highest proportion of younger patients with type-2 diabetes across nine Asian territories, Channel NewsAsia reported on Friday, citing a study by the Asian Diabetes Foundation. The two-year study polled 319 patients from Singapore, Thailand, China, th ...

WUHAN, April 3 (Xinhua) -- China will put more effort into training rural medical workers so that the country can meet the goal of having one doctor for every family by 2020, a senior medical official has pledged. Speaking at a medical industry conference which concluded on Friday, Li Bin, head of t ...

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Results from an early trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Chinese researchers indicate it is safe, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal. The findings suggest the high-dose vaccine is safe and "robustly immunogenic," its developers said Wednesd ...

KUNMING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Yunnan Province on Monday reported a human infection of H5N1 avian flu. The provincial health authority said the infection was an isolated case. The patient, who is said to be in a stable condition, lives in Kunming City, according to the Yunnan health authority.

BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong met with World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati in Beijing on Monday, pledging to cooperate more in health care. Liu said he appreciated the World Bank's support and help on China's medical and health care reform and briefed ...

BRUSSELS, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) will allocate 150 million euros (159.64 million U.S. dollars) to distribute fruit and vegetables in schools, a statement said Wednesday. This scheme, proposed by the European Commission, aims to reach 12 million children aged between six to 10 a ...

NAIROBI, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's ministry of health on Thursday launched a three-year strategic plan to revitalize the war against tuberculosis (TB), which is the fourth leading cause of deaths in the country. The launch of 2015-2018 National Strategic Plan for tuberculosis marks a significant ...

BRUSSELS, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) will allocate 150 million euros (159.64 million U.S. dollars) to distribute fruit and vegetables in schools, a statement said Wednesday. This scheme, proposed by the European Commission, aims to reach 12 million children aged between six to 10 a ...

MELBOURNE, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Australia's world-first tobacco plain packaging laws are working successfully according to research released by the Cancer Council of Victoria on Thursday. The research, published as a supplement to the British Medical Journal, is the first "comprehensive evaluation" ...

MELBOURNE, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A team of Australian researchers are a step closer to finding a vaccine to prevent malaria, after discovering patterns in the human immune system that helps fight the disease in its early stages. The team from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne collaborated with univer ...

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Regular use of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) can reduce most people's colorectal cancer risk but a few individuals with rare genetic variants do not share this benefit, a study suggested Tuesday. "Previous studies, including randomize ...

SYDNEY, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian Aboriginal children will receive free flu shots this winter in an effort by the government to prevent unnecessary fatalities, Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley said on Tuesday. Ley said that indigenous children were five times more likely to die from the flu ...

CONAKRY, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Guinea's authorities in charge of eradication of Ebola epidemic are putting final touches on an interim plan to end the disease by April 15, 2015, an official source has said. This is after the initial plan dubbed "Zero Ebola in 60 days," that elapsed on March 10, 2015 ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The region of West Africa would lose at least 3.6 billion U.S. dollars per year on average between 2014 and 2017 as a consequence of ripple effects of Ebola, according to a UN report released Thursday. Due to a decrease in trade, closing of borders, flight cancel ...