Health News Watch Monday, May 12th 2008.
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U.S. health secretary visits China to discuss outbreak (USA Today)
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt visited Shanghai on Monday to discuss a viral outbreak that has killed at least 34 children.
US health secretary: Chinese Heparin now safe (Chicago Tribune)
A blood thinner manufactured in China and linked to dozens of deaths in the United States is now safe because of tighter testing and controls, a top American health official said Monday, while warning that all U.S. imports would face closer scrutiny in the future.
Health disaster feared in Burma (Boston Globe)
BANGKOK - An estimated 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned yesterday, as desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food, and other help.
Health Highlights: May 11, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Loan effort lures recruits to health centers (Boston Globe)
Twice as many doctors and nurse practitioners than expected took or remained in jobs in Eastern Massachusetts community health centers during the first year of a program that helps pay off their student loans, the initiative's architects will announce today.
Myanmar faces overwhelming health catastrophe (Denver Post)
An estimated 1.5 million Myanmarese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday, as desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other help.
Muslim clinics fill health care needs of underserved (Houston Chronicle)
The Ibn Sina Foundation community clinic is one of many Muslim health facilities popping up across the country, according to a report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a national nonprofit, policy-research organization.
Retiree health benefits bill criticized (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
The measure would ban local governments for a year from changing health benefits for retirees unless they also change them for active workers.
Mental health workers blast CPS for separating polygamist families (Dallas Mo...
SAN ANTONIO ? Removing children from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch was unnecessary and traumatizing, several mental health workers sent to aid the families wrote.
Health information for women offered at midday event this week (Seattle Times)
National Women's Health Week is being celebrated with Walking Across Cultures, an event where women in the community will be able to get...

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