The White House pushes the "hurry up" button on what is becoming an alarming situation in the nation's capitol.

The Bush Administration presses domestic vaccine manufacturers to increase the nation's ability to fend off an avian influenza pandemic, a vaccine to prevent humans from being infected with a strain of bird flu now circulating in Asia

Biological health care product provider CSL Ltd announces that a new vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Merck, based on CSL technology, has prevented high grade cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers, reports Asia Pulse.

CSL says that the Gardasil prevents the pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 that make up about 70 per cent of all cervical cancers

Experts claim SUVs pose a greater threat to pedestrians than other vehicles, adding because of the growing number of drivers purchasing these models, the cars should carry health warnings

According to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Sydney Children's Hospital pediatric cancer, patients as young as 10 years old, who know that their disease is incurable, have the ability to participate in talks about their own end-of-life care with family members and health care professionals.

The children studied understood their deaths as an outcome of their decisions to limit treatment, understood that they were actively participating in decisions about the end of their own lives. Researchers said the children recognized the consequences of their decisions

Researchers say warming ocean waters may have tainted Alaskan oysters with a bacteria that prompted four outbreaks of illness on a cruise ship among people who ate the raw food.

"The rising temperatures of ocean water seem to have contributed to one of the largest known outbreaks of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the United States," says Joseph McLaughlin of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, referring to the bacterium responsible for the outbreak