SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean health authorities on Monday ordered a
recall of U.S. peanut butter-based cookies that may have been contaminated with
Salmonella.

BANGKOK, Jan 19 (Bernama) -- Successful ways of preventing avian and human
influenza in Thailand will be extended to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Vietnam,

13 die of dengue fever and malaria in Champasak

Abhishek Shukla
New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) Every 25th Indian carries a
mutant gene which makes the person vulnerable to an "almost

SANAL'A, Jan. 17 (Saba) - A workshop on the National Strategy for Protection from AIDS and combating it for 2009-2015 was held in Sana'a on Saturday.

Rafah, Jan 17 (ANTARA) - A team of volunteers from Medical Rescue Committee (MER-C) Indonesia was allowed to enter Gaza Strip in Palestine on Saturday.

OSAKA, Jan. 18 Kyodo -
The first combined transplantation of a heart and lungs in Japan was
successfully completed Saturday at Osaka University Hospital using organs from

New York, Jan 17 (PTI) Using a NASA radar flying aboard
India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their
first look inside the moon's coldest and darkest craters.

Tour de France legend and cancer campaigner Lance Armstrong says he's optimistic of getting extra funding from incoming US president Barack Obama to fight the disease.

Farmers opposed to genetically modified (GM) crops have welcomed the results of the
first independent trials of GM canola, which show it produced similar yields to