A rabies alert was declared in a Serbian town after several infected cats bit and scratched seven people, including two pre-school children, the national television RTS said Wednesday.

A 27-year old woman has given birth to septuplets in Al-Shatbi hospital
in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, the Middle East News Agency
(MENA) reported Saturday.

A two-week exercise to test the preparedness of Singapore's financial
industry for a deadly flu outbreak is to start at the end of this
month, organizers said Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday urged Philippine
hospitals to tighten infection-control measures to save babies from
neonatal sepsis, a blood infection that kills nearly 8,000 infants in
the country every year.

Germany's semi-ban on smoking in bars is unconstitutional, senior
judges ruled Wednesday, because tiny one-room taverns cannot set aside
space for patrons who smoke.

Hailed for keeping people slim, healthy and living longer, the
Mediterranean diet has followers all over the world - but is
increasingly disregarded around the Mediterranean, a United Nations
expert said Tuesday.

The increased use of the internet by women seeking to buy medication to end unwanted pregnancies in countries where abortion is restricted is worrying campaigners in Britain, a report said Friday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on the international
community Friday to help 4.6 million Ethiopians currently in need of
urgent food relief.

Over many decades, people have thought that radiation is dangerous for the body. In large amounts it is even deadly and leads to cancer. But short-term effects of radiation in moderate quantities are useful for health, experts from the University of Missouri believe.

Cuban scientists discovered vaccine against lung cancer, which in their words was the first in the world and could extend life of patients by up to five months.