Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates is putting his financial muscle behind a campaign to get life-saving cervical cancer vaccines to women in poor countries.

Two rival vaccines targeting the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes the disease, are expected to be launched in the next year or two by Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc

A health expert on Tuesday revealed that more than 2,000 suspected cases of cholera have been detected in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

He also cautioned that Kabul is on the brink of an epidemic. "An epidemic is about to break out here. Over two thousand cases have been reported so far that would meet the case definition of cholera," The AP quoted Fred Hartman, the health expert, as saying

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter

New York (AHN)- Researcher D.r Charles Rice from the Infectious Diseases Unit at Rockefeller University told the journal Science how in a separate set of experiments they were able to use the lab-grown virus to cultivate hepatitis C

The Agriculture Department announces Friday there is no health risk to consumers after receiving conflicting results of a mad-cow test conducted on a bovine that was unable to walk and will seek further testing of a tissue sample of the cow.

There has only been one case of mad cow disease in The U.S., an infected dairy cow in Washington State in December 2003

According to the Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns there could be a second case of mad cow disease in the U.S.

Johanns said the new suspected case involved an older beef animal which was chosen for testing because it was a "downer" animal that could not walk when it arrived at the slaughterhouse