| | | | | Indonesia is preparing a regulation to ban the trade of meat derived from pets and exotic animals, aiming to promote animal welfare and rein in disease, an official said on Tuesday, a decision cheered by animal rights campaigners. | | |
| | | China must eradicate the African swine fever epidemic as soon as possible, and make sure the country is free of the disease, the country's agriculture ministry said at an emergency meeting on the outbreak on Tuesday. | | |
| | | Changsheng Bio-technology Co Ltd, a vaccine maker at the center of a safety scandal in China, began falsifying production records for its rabies vaccine in April 2014, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday. | | |
| | | (This July 23 story has been corrected to clarify that Changsheng falsified production documents related to a rabies vaccine and manufactured an ineffective vaccine for babies in third paragraph) | | |
| | | Health workers in Congo were setting up refrigerators on Monday to keep cool an Ebola vaccine needed to tackle an outbreak suspected to have infected 43 people, the health ministry said. | | |
| | | (Reuters Health) - Handing kids plates with pictures of fruits and vegetables may nudge them to serve themselves more of these foods and eat more of them, too, a small experiment suggests. | | |
| | | (Reuters Health) - In internal medicine, women earn less than men even when they're in the same specialty and working the same hours in similar types of medical practices, a U.S. study suggests. | | |
| | | (Reuters Health) - Adolescents who have smoked e-cigarettes are more than three times more likely to move on to marijuana than teens who have never tried vaping, a U.S. study suggests. | | |
| | | (Reuters Health) - Women who show up in the emergency room with a heart attack are less likely to die if they are treated by a female physician rather than a male, a new study finds. | | |
| | | (Reuters Health) - Compared to big corporations in other sectors of the economy, most healthcare organizations - even large ones - appear to be falling short when it comes to finding ways to protect the environment, a new study suggests. | | |
| | | One of Libya's few cancer clinics is relying on donors to keep its doors open for patients who often travel hundreds of kilometers (miles) for life-saving treatment. | | |
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