Health authorities in London are looking for anthrax spores in the home of a musician and drum maker who died Sunday from symptoms of the killer disease.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has sealed off the flat of Fernando Gomez, 35, at the Dalston Lane building in Hackney and plans to conduct a cleanup if any anthrax sign emerge

The Canadian Blood Services appealed on Friday for more blood donations as its supply dropped by 40 percent in the last two months. As of Thursday the CBS had only two days supply for common blood types, while its normal reservoir is four to six days.

Ron Vezina, CBS director of media relations, said the situation could not be considered a crisis, but it wants to avoid reaching that level of shortage. "We're vulnerable right now... We haven't heard about any surgical or cases being either postponed or delayed, but we've been rationing shipments to the hospitals for long enough now that we think, if things don't turn around soon, that might be inevitable," Vezina told the Canadian Press

Amnesty International is alarmed over the risk of extreme hunger in Zimbabwe after a failed agricultural season. The economic difficulty of Zimbabweans is worsened by the ongoing political crisis in the country.

AI pointed out most of the victims of political violence after the March elections were subsistence farmers. Some became crippled because of secret police beatings that left them too weak to work in the fields. The bulk of the violent incidents were made by state security forces, AI said

Manhattan hospital Beth Israel Medical Center is teaming up with designer Donna Karan's foundation to try a combination of Eastern and Western healing methods to treat cancer patients.

The Karan-Beth Israel project will turn the hospital's cancer treatment floor into a year long experiment in using yoga, meditation and aromatherapy to enhance traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments to combat cancer, according to a New York Times report

Four people have died in South African hospitals from a hemorrhagic fever caused by a new rodent-borne virus while one is recuperating from the same disease.

Cecilia van Deventer, a safari tour guide from Zambia, was the first fatality of arena virus dying on Sept. 14 at the Morningside Medi-Clinic in Johannesburg or two days after she was airlifted from Zambia