UK funds for S Africa Aids fight
The UK is to give South Africa’s new Health Minister Barbara Hogan £15m to help combat Aids in the country.
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New Zealand drink-driving doctor’s ‘handwash’ defence dismissed
A New Zealand doctor is convicted of drink-driving, despite blaming an alcohol handwash he used in surgery.
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Drug firms ‘block cheap medicine’
Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, the European Commission says.
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Whooping cough vaccine call
Vaccinating parents of newborns against whooping cough could prevent fatal infections in babies, say doctors.
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