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As the price of gold rests near record highs, people from Spokane to Bangkok are selling jewelry or buying bullion.
Ever wondered how far your sneeze goes? Or if you can stop germs from spreading by cupping your mouth with your hand when you cough?
Protesters disrupted a large HIV/Aids conference in Indonesia on Wednesday to demand access to drugs to treat HIV patients dying from hepatitis C.
Airports have rushed to install temperature scanners to pick out the sick, but the swine flu virus is proving too clever for modern technology.
Malaysian plantation worker Rajam Murugasu became blind in one eye after she slipped and accidentally sprayed the weedkiller paraquat in her face.
Chiu Hei-chun spent 50 years washing dishes at a roadside stall in Hong Kong only to lose his life savings when Lehman Brothers went belly up.
When her baby turned blue, Nivetha Biju rushed the child to the emergency room of an Indian hospital and watched as the baby lost consciousness.
Hong Kong parents streamed into clinics this week after news that the imported milk they had been feeding their children may be contaminated.
Lupeol, a compound in fruits like mangoes, grapes and strawberries, appears to be effective in killing and curbing the spread of cancer cells in the head and neck, a study in…
Paul Lee got his liver from an executed Chinese prisoner; Karam in Egypt bought a kidney for his sister for  300; in Istanbul, Hakan is holding out for  700 for one of his…
If it wasn’t for the fresh, sharp scent, you could easily mistake sweet wormwood for any other kind of shrub. But this shrub, also called the Artemisia annua, is widely regarded…
Aid agencies and African states called for more help on Tuesday to fight malaria, a disease that kills more than a million people each year, 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. A…
HIV/Aids in China has spread beyond high risk groups such as drug users, prostitutes and homosexuals and the country was becoming ”like Africa” in how the virus is transmitted, a…
