April 2008


A lethal intestinal virus which has already claimed 20 lives could cause more deaths in eastern China.
The BBC hears that rising rates of child health issues in Afghanistan may be linked to depleted uranium weapons.
Junior doctors face tougher competition this year after a bid to give UK-trained medics priority in applying for jobs fails.
US officials say Chinese-made ingredients for a blood-thinning drug may have been deliberately contaminated.
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, dies at the age of 102.

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