Morning News Run
December 20, 2006 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Morning News
FDA Urges New Warnings For Over The Counter Pain Relievers – MSNBC
Federal health officials cautioned Tuesday the tens of millions of Americans who take popular over-the-counter pain pills of their potentially serious side effects and released planned label changes intended to warn of the sometimes deadly risks.
HIV Verdict Lacks Medical Support – ABC News
A verdict Tuesday from Libyan judge Mahmoud Hauissa sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for deliberately infecting hundreds of hospitalized children with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. While relatives of the infected children cheer, doctors and scientists said there is no medical evidence to support the charges.
You’ve Got Mail, and Your Period – Wired News
Women hoping to become pregnant are transforming themselves into busy data machines, tracking everything from waking temperature to moods and various bodily fluids. A cottage industry of websites feeds the obsession by offering online charts and e-mail services to alert women on their fertile days.
Bird Flu Outbreak in Vietnam – BBC
Some 5,500 ducks and 500 chickens have died in the last two weeks in two provinces on the Mekong Delta, health ministry officials said.
Air Rich With Bacteria, Study Finds – Science Daily
Want biodiversity? Look no further than the air around you. It could be teeming with more than 1,800 types of bacteria, according to a first-of-its-kind census of airborne microbes recently conducted by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
