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For determining risk of Type 2 diabetes, current genetic screening tests add little to traditional methods such as family history, two new studies suggest.

Food-borne diseases appear to be on the rise in both rich and poor countries, officials with the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

Treating babies infected with HIV rapidly with drug treatments dramatically reduces their risk of death, according to a study that has already prompted officials to recommend immediate treatment.

Fifteen people were officially named to the Alberta Health Services Board on Thursday, the authority that oversees all health-care delivery in the province.