The Xinhua News Agency in China reports an unauthorized Hepatitis A vaccine has killed one child and sickened more than 200.

Officials say village doctors in an eastern province gave the Hepatitis A vaccine to about 2,500 children two weeks ago without permission. A 6-year-old girl reportedly suffered an infection and breathing problems and died a few days later. Other children suffered dizziness, headaches and breathing trouble

Doctors are encouraging mothers of premature babies to breast feed, citing breast milk is the perfect food for them, especially those born weighing under 3 1/2 pounds.

Many mothers of premature babies are scared to breast-feed, given the child's delicate condition, but doctors are trying to change this with strategies ranging from free breast pumps to implementing breast-feeding "peer counselors" into intensive care units to train new mothers how to nurse

A report from the Trust for America's Health non-profit group predicted Friday that half a million Americans could die and more than 2 millions could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hits.

The group warns the United States only has 965,256 staffed hospital beds, an insufficient amount in the event a pandemic does hit

Nearly six months after a devastating tsunami left over 200,000 people dead or missing in Asia and Africa, survivors are suffering from unusual lung and sinus infections, and even a paralyzing brain infection.

Reuters reports doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine the case of a 17-year-old girl from Indonesia who was 2.5 kilometers inland when a wave from the Dec. 26 tsunami swept her up and carried her another kilometer

Infertility could double in the next decade in Europe, according to specialists.

Obesity and sexually transmitted diseases are cited as the main reasons for rising European infertility