In Taiwan, officials have warned people to be mindful of bird flu during the holiday. Vietnam also has stepped up bird flu controls, including banning duck blood pudding in restaurants and ordering more careful scrutiny at its borders to prevent smuggling.

About one in 5,000 children are born with a heart defect so bad that they'll need a transplant in the first year or two of life.

Yet few babies die of conditions that allow their hearts to be donated.

On Sunday, police arrested a gynecologist and janitor at a hospital near the central Indian city of Bhopal after the discovery of nearly 400 bones from fetuses and newborns in a pit behind the hospital. It is believed they are the remains of unwanted baby girls.

In a University of Massachusetts study published last year, graduate-level nursing students reported learning better pelvic exam skills from trained "fake" patients than from practicing on each other.

"Thank God there's somebody to teach the students how to do it so they don't do their first one on you," said Yudkowsky.

Some 73,000 Malaysians have been infected with HIV, of which 75 percent are intravenous drug users and 7 percent are women, he said.

"Based on the trend that we are seeing, HIV infections can escalate to 300,000 cases by 2015 if we do not do anything," Ramlee said.

Socrates quotes figures compiled by abortion rights groups and disputed by their opponents that around 10,000 women are hospitalized every year with complications arising from botched back-street abortions

For the nation as a whole, roughly 4 percent of those surveyed had had a heart attack. A slightly higher percentage reported angina or coronary heart disease, and 6.5 reported any of those conditions.

But in West Virginia, more than 10 percent had at least one of the conditions. The prevalence in Kentucky was nearly 9 percent, and Mississippi was No. 3, with 8 percent.

Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said.

James Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups, the business community and governments to join forces in a global movement to alleviate and eliminate hunger especially among children.

Women with early stage breast cancer may soon get another gene test to help predict whether they'll relapse in five or 10 years, information that could influence how aggressively they fight the initial tumor.

The test is far from perfect, warned FDA's Dr. Steven Gutman.

Six more schools have reported cases of herpes among Minnesota high school wrestlers. The mild form of herpes was found in 16 additional wrestlers after the Minnesota State High School League shut down the sport last week because of the virus. So far, 16 teams and 40 wrestlers have reported infections of the skin-to-skin virus. Symptoms have included lesions on the face, head and neck of wrestlers.

She was a 16-year-old honors student, keenly interested in politics and eager to work for her candidate in last fall's congressional elections.
But when election day came around, the girl wasn't on the campaign trail.
She was in the hospital, with anorexia.

Britain is confronting Europe's biggest outbreak of bird flu with a massive slaughter of turkeys and worried consumers are asking whether the disease will hit humans next.

Experts are trying to spread the word that conditions in Britain are so different from Asia and Africa that the chance of human infection is infinitesimal. They also stress that no human bird flu cases have ever been traced to eating properly cooked poultry or eggs.

Hospitals can successfully tackle the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection with an aggressive program to immediately identify and quarantine patients carrying the superbug, infectious disease doctors said at a conference Tuesday.

A drug widely used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart surgery appears to raise the risk of dying in the five years afterward by nearly 50 percent, an international study found.