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| Aug. 17 |
 Egypt |
Septuplets' mother has seen them on TV  Map of Alexandria Egypt| A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old woman said she's only seen her babies on TV and hopes to hold them and name them soon | |
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| Jul.2 |
European Union |
EU plans cross-border healthcare The European Commission has unveiled a package designed to make it easier for patients to get medical treatment elsewhere in the EU
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| Jun.20 |
 India |
8-limbed baby becoming normal little girl Rural villagers believed 2-year-olds Lakshmi was a goddess, not a girl and underwent a surgery last fall
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| Feb.18 |
 Tanzania |
 Bush promotes health solution in Africa President Bush focused on a low-tech way to save the lives of African children as he and first lady Laura Bush toured a Tanzanian clinic
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| Jan.29 |
New Delhi |
Police broken organ-trafficking scheme| Police have broken up what they call a global organ-trafficking scheme and are hunting its alleged mastermind, doctor Amit Kumar | | |
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| Dec.30 |
 London |
 Drug firms probed in Iraq scandal 3 drug makers allegedly paid bribes to secure contracts while Saddam was in power
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| Dec.18 |
European Union |
Plans to end health queues in EU  A blueprint for health care across the EU is expected to call for an end to unjustified obstacles for patients who go abroad for treatment
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| Nov.6 |
Southern India |
Girl separated from twin | Doctors, who operated on a 2-year-old Lakshmi Tatma who was born with four arms and four legs, say the surgery has been successful. | |
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| Nov.5 |
Southern India |
Surgery on many-limbed girl Doctors are attempting rare surgery to give a chance of a normal life to a 2-year-old girl who was born with 4 arms and 4 legs
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| Sep.21 |
 USA |
Merck abandons HIV vaccine trials International drug company has halted trials on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising in the fight against AIDS
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Opera legend Pavarotti dies at 71
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| Jul.20 |
 Nigeria |
Pfizer faces new Nigerian lawsuit Nigerian government lawyers withdrew a $7 billion civil lawsuit, saying they have discovered new material and plan to file an even stronger ...
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| Jul.4 |
 Brazil |
Brazil gets cut-price Aids drug Brazil has accepted an offer from Abbott , a manufacturer of an important drug, to cut its price by around 30%
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| Jul.3 |
 United Kingdom |
Terror suspects all linked to Health Service 8 people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London have links with the National Health Service
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| Jun.21 |
Southern India |
Inquiry into 'teenager surgeon' Officials are probing allegations that a doctor couple let their teenage son perform surgery
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| Jun.4 |
Nigeria |
Nigeria sues drugs giant Pfizer Nigeria accusing the pharmaceutical company of carrying out improper trials for an anti-meningitis drug
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| Dec.21 |
United Kingdom |
Triplets for woman with two wombs
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| Sep.27 |
 France |
Zero-gravity surgery 'a success' Doctors have carried out an operation on a human under weightless conditions in an adapted aircraft
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| Jul.26 |
London |
 Glaxo has bird flu 'breakthrough' GlaxoSmithKline Plc: A vaccine for humans has proved effective in clinical tests and could be available in 2007
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| Jun.8 |
USA |
US approves cervical cancer drug
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| Feb.6 |
France |
Face patient wants 'normal life' Isabelle Dinoire, 38, who received the world's first partial face transplant, stepped before the media
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| Dec.2 |
France |
Face transplant woman thanks team Map of Amiens France| The woman thanked her doctors when she awoke 24 hours after her surgery | | |
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| Oct.21 |
Ohio |
Candidates turn focus to jobs, health care
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Oil rises to $50
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| Aug.19 |
Nigeria |
$248 million to be spent on AIDS drugs
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| Apr.3 |
France |
Rabies vaccines recalled
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| Jan.21 |
France |
Health staff set to strike
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Mad cow disease confirmed
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| Oct.12 |
Italy |
Twins joined at temple separated
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| Aug.8 |
 South Africa |
S. Africa to distribute AIDS drugs Cabinet has ordered to develop an operational plan to make anti-AIDS drugs available to infected with HIV
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| Jul.23 |
South Africa |
AIDS 'threatens economic catastrophe'
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| Jul.13 |
France |
AIDS forum calls for cheap drugs
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| Feb.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Aids vaccine only limited success
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| Jul.8 |
USA |
$36 million AIDS vaccine trial
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| Jul.5 |
South Africa |
Court orders end to HIV drug block
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| Apr.10 |
Washington |
Bush presses for human cloning ban
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| Dec.3 |
Malawi |
Malawi cuts AIDS drugs prices 20%
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| Nov.25 |
 Boston |
Human embryo clone created| Advanced Cell Technology aim is to use the embryo as a source of stem cells | |
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| Aug.15 |
Melbourne |
Stem cell breakthrough
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| Aug.10 |
Washington |
Bush OKs limited stem cell funding
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| Aug.7 |
Washington |
Human cloning conference Scientists blasted researchers who will attempt to clone a human being within the year
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| Mar.21 |
Netherlands |
Foot-and-mouth reaches Netherlands
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| Nov.28 |
 Netherlands |
Euthanasia legalized Euthanasia has been tolerated in the Netherlands for decades and carried out thousands of times
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