Experts weigh giving up on killing polio
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Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 &#151; and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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A polio epidemic spreading from Nigeria  throughout West and Central Africa has begun to come under  control, but more funds are needed to wipe out the disease in  2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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There&#39;s enough flu vaccine available now for seniors and others at high risk, but many have given up trying to get a shot, worried health officials said yesterday.
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SYDNEY - Australian authorities moved Saturday to reassure people vaccinated against polio in the 1950s and 1960s after a report that a contaminated vaccine linked to cancer was issued at that time.
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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Postmortem tests on an Illinois woman who died mysteriously in July after getting an experimental gene treatment show no evidence that she was killed directly by the genetically altered viruses she was given, a committee of experts was told yesterday.
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A review into contaminated polio vaccine has been ordered by Australia&#39;s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott, after an investigation showed at least two batches were released for use after testing positive for contamination, according to a report in The
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Health ministers from the most seriously affected countries in Africa say they can stop polio's spread by the end of this year by intensifying efforts to immunize children.
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New research finds that people who give up on unattainable goals are physically and mentally healthier than âbulldogsâ who persevere against all odds. The importance of knowing when to throw in the towel.
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Christopher Reeve&#39;s death has extra significance for Mike DiScipio. The Colonie resident has been paralyzed since a diving accident in 1999, and he&#39;s been fighting the same fight as Reeve.
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Top health officials in India will   hold an emergency meeting on Thursday as the country grapples   with an outbreak of polio that threatens other countries.
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The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
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GENEVA Aug. 24, 2004 - Polio has spread to new countries in Africa, further setting back global attempts to wipe out the disease, UN officials said Tuesday.
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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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The death of actor and embryonic stem cell research advocate Christopher Reeve, who passed away Sunday from heart failure, has refueled debate on both sides of the embryonic stem cell issue.
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The study is unlikely to end the increasingly charged debate about vaccine safety.