Phoenix, AZ (AHN) A new study by University of Arizona Microbiology Professor Chuck Gerba - "The Germ Doctor" - ranks the TV remote control as the highest carrier of bacteria in a patient's hospital room compared to the toilet bowl handle, bathroom door and call buttons.

Duke University psychologist Martin Binks reveals the findings at a meeting of The Obesity Society on Monday. He has found shedding a few pounds can improve a person's sex life, as people feel better about their bodies.

The World Health Organization has warned against panic-buying stocks of a drug thought to work against the virus.

A new label for the antidepressant, known generically as duloxetine, also includes reports of hepatitis, jaundice and other liver-related problems in patients using the drug, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says on its Web site.

Horrible rains and snow in the upper mountain regions of the country have hampered rescue operations for the last four-days, but now seem to be subsiding enough to allow choppers to search for more victims and bodies of those effected by the killer quake.