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BEIJING, (Xinhua) — President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahd Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday called on all OCA members to support China for the successful delivery of the 2008 Olympic Games.
“It is important for Asian countries to stand behind China … as the success of the Beijing […]

The theme heading into the NFL owners meeting is integrity. Coming off Spygate and the 49ers’ tampering penalty, commissioner Roger Goodell must make sure the game is as clean as possible.
Give Goodell credit. He’s willing to confront tough issues. Although it can be debated whether his penalty against Patriots coach Bill Belichick for the illicit […]

By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
In 2004, Medicare reduced its reimbursement rates to doctors for drugs that treat prostate cancer by blocking the activity of male hormones.
Coincidentally or not, the use of surgery — castration — to accomplish that same goal started to increase at just the same time, a new study found.
It’s not possible to say […]

By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
The government’s bill for treating chronically ill seniors and the disabled in the nation’s teaching hospitals is nearly four times higher at some of those medical centers than others, says a report out today.
The reason? Sharp differences in how long patients spend in the hospitals during the final two years of […]

Thats new research on hospital treatment raises concern among parents, as it shows that medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses, and bad drug reactions harm roughly one of 15 children while being hospitalized.
Researchers, led by Paul Sharek of Stanford University’s Packard Children’s Hospital followed over 900 children’s cases from 12 different U.S. children’s hospitals in 2002.
The study […]

HealthDay News - Call it a case of gator aid. New research suggests that alligator blood could serve as the basis for new antibiotics targeting infections caused by ulcers, burns and even drug-resistant “superbugs.”
The research is in its early stages — extracts of alligator blood have only been tested in the laboratory — and there’s […]

Shares of Antigenics Inc. spiked in Tuesday premarket trading, after the biotechnology company said its Oncophage treatment for kidney cancer patients was approved for use in Russia.
The drug is approved for patients with medium risk of cancer relapse. The company expects to launch Oncophage in Russia in the second half of 2008, and will file […]

By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Infants and toddlers who slept fewer than 12 hours in a 24-hour period were twice as likely to be overweight than longer sleepers by the time they’re 3 years old, a study showed Monday.
The children most likely to be overweight were those who slept less than 12 hours and watched at […]

The according to Patrick Klepek from MTV’s Multiplayer blog, Microsoft is secretly working on a new accessory for its Xbox 360, that will mimic some of the features of Nintendo’s widely acclaimed Wiimote.
Citing an anonymous source close to the matter, Klepek said that the new controller has “four face buttons, an analog stick and […]

Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service, PC World
Google is offering to host enterprise Web applications on its own infrastructure with a new tool for developers, App Engine.
It isn’t the first to do so — App Engine will compete with similar services such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Salesforce’s Appexchange — but it may be the […]

Most people are probably annoyed for having to turn off their phones during flights, but that is not the case anymore as long as travelers are in the European skies, according to a decision announced at the beginning of this week by the European regulators. It is for the first time that such an approval […]