603-pound Thai woman leaves apartment for first time in 3 years with help of forklift

603-pound Thai woman leaves home after 3 years

‘Eat Pray Love’ Balinese fortuneteller hospitalized with heart problems, has prostate surgery

‘Eat Pray Love’ fortuneteller hospitalized

Filipino teen singer Charice gets Botox, skin-tightening procedure before debut on “Glee”

Teenage singer Charice gets Botox for ‘Glee’ debut

Filipino singer Charice undergoes cosmetic procedure to prepare for US hit show “Glee”

Filipino singer undergoes cosmetic fix for ‘Glee’

Viloria undergoes scans after losing IBF light fly belt to Colombia’s Tamara: stable condition

Viloria hospitalized after loss to Tamara

MANILA, Philippines — Hawaiian Brian Viloria was taken to a hospital from apparent exhaustion soon after his TKO defeat by Colombia’s Carlos Tamara in Saturday’s IBF light flyweight title fight, a boxing official said.

WHO: Women at risk from ‘epidemic’ C-sections, China logs world’s highest rate

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Spanish 16-year-old becomes country’s first minor to undergo sex change operation

Spanish teen undergoes sex change operation

Indonesia reports 15 new bird flu deaths for 2009, taking human toll to 134

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Pacquiao planning to file defamation suit against Mayweather and his camp

Pacquiao says he plans to sue Mayweather

SARANGANI, Philippines — Manny Pacquiao says he is planning to file a defamation lawsuit against Floyd Mayweather Jr., the fighter’s father, and Golden Boy Promotions

Vietnamese officials report largest cluster of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cases on train trip

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WHO: Pregnant Cambodians get hooked on chewing tobacco to quell morning sickness

Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea

AIDS In Vietnam: Where it once waged war, America now saves lives

America wages new war in Vietnam - on AIDS

Thailand mandates waiting period, cross-dressing to make sex change surgery more difficult

Thailand looks to limit sex change surgery

As price of child vaccines drop, millions of lives saved from preventable diseases

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Diarrhea and pneumonia are biggest child killers, but world is focused on AIDS and malaria

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Experts: Radical swine flu measures in China, elsewhere, won’t stop outbreaks

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Malaysia baby born on plane to leave hospital after doctors assure mom of no complications

Malaysia baby born on plane to go home healthy

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian woman who gave premature birth aboard a plane said Saturday that doctors are expected to release her son from a hospital Monday or Tuesday.

Full results from first successful test of AIDS vaccine show it modestly prevents infection

Full results show AIDS vaccine is of modest help

Fresh results from the world’s first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective.

Big hearts, concern about disease credited with making Thai AIDS vaccine trials successful

Volunteers key to success of Thai vaccine trials

NONGTAPAN, Thailand — Nearly 16,000 Thais ignored the false rumors that they were being infected by the AIDS virus, and overcame their fears of becoming social outcasts to participate in the first HIV vaccine trials to show positive results.

A world first: AIDS vaccine cuts the risk of HIV infection by 31 percent in big Thai study

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.

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