(AFP/File) - Tsuyoshi Takado, professor of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine displays an artificial bone (white piece) which fits neatly into patient's skull at his laboraotory in Tokyo, on November 17. The custom-made bones are created from the calcium phosphate powder and a solidifying liquid which is more than 80 percent distilled water, using computer-assisted design.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

(AFP/File) - Cigarettes burning in an ashtray. Delegates from 160 countries agreed Saturday on new guidelines to block the tobacco industry from interfering in state health policies and the implementation of a global anti-tobacco treaty.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)

(AFP/File) - This 2006 file picture shows a nurse holding a test-tube with HIV positive blood in an infectious diseases hospital in Moscow. Greater investment in combatting AIDS is failing to slow its spread in Russia, the director of the Russian federal AIDS centre Vadim Pokrovsky said Friday.(AFP/File/Maxim Marmur)

(AFP/File) - A young girl walks through sewage water in the Harare township of Dzivaresekwa. Nearly 300 people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe, the United Nations said Friday, as health authorities battled to contain unprecedented countrywide outbreaks.(AFP/File)

(AFP/File) - Women hold beer samples during a tasting festival in Melbourne. A new Australian government campaign is targeting binge drinking among young people.(AFP/File/William West)

(AFP/File) - A woman pushes a buggy in Caen. A British study suggested that babies transported in forward-facing buggies could end up "emotionally impoverished" due to lack of face-to-face contact with the parent pushing them.(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau)

(AFP/Medecins Sans Frontieres /File) - A Medecins Sans Frontieres team takes a blood sample from a man suspected of carrying the Ebola virus in Bundibugyo following an Ebola outbreak in Uganda in 2007. Scientists said Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses.(AFP/Medecins Sans Frontieres /File/Claude Mahoudeau)

(AFP/Graphic) - Scientists said Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses.(AFP/Graphic)

(AFP/File) - File photo shows an immunologist conducting tests on the Ebola virus in a laboratory in Zaire. Scientists said Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses.(AFP/File/Desirey Minkoh)

(AFP/File) - An electronmicrograph of the Ebola virus. Scientists said Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses.(AFP/File/Dr. Larissa Kolesnikova)

(AFP/File) - Groups of activists backing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Law Project hold banners during demonstrations outside the Palacio Legislativo (Congress) where the bill is being voted on November 4, 2008 in Montevideo. Lawmakers in Uruguay did not raise enough votes to overturn a presidential veto of a bill that would have decriminalized abortion, legislators told AFP on Thursday.(AFP/File/Miguel Rojo)

(AFP/File) - Healthcare workers at a hospital. A 14-year old girl survived four months with an external pump in lieu of a heart while awaiting transplant surgery, hospital officials in Florida said Thursday.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)

(AFP/File) - Spanish customs test a shipment of cocaine that was intercepted in June 2008. Researchers in Spain, which has the highest rate of cocaine use in the European Union, will test a vaccine next year that they hope will help addicts break free of their addiction to the drug, health officials said Thursday.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)

(AFP/File) - US ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee, gives a lecture in June 2008. McGee, said Thursday that a total of 294 people have been confirmed dead from cholera in Zimbabwe, amid some 1,200 cases of the water-borne disease.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)

(AFP/File) - Zimbabwean doctors and nurses demonstrate in Harare on November 18, 2008. Cholera and starvation are spreading in Zimbabwe as a political deadlock and economic meltdown trigger a manmade "food and health emergency," the US ambassador to Harare James McGee said Thursday.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)

(AFP/File) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai answers journalists' on November 18, 2008 in Paris. Cholera and starvation are spreading in Zimbabwe as a political deadlock and economic meltdown trigger a manmade "food and health emergency," the US ambassador to Harare James McGee said Thursday.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)

(AFP/File) - Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque attends a press conference in Manila in October 2008. Global warming may have contributed to a recent spate of outbreaks of deadly diseases in the Philippines, Duque said Thursday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

(AFP/File) - A nurse gives medecine to a boy, against onchocerciasis or river blindness, caused by a parasitic worm and spread by the bite of an infected blackfly, in the Ivorian town of Kouadioa-Allaikro. River blindness is found in 30 African countries, in regions of six countries in the Americas, and Yemen.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

(AFP/File) - A nurse measures a patient as he distributes medecine, ivermectin, against onchocerciasis or river blindness, caused by a parasitic worm and spread by the bite of an infected blackfly, in the Ivorian town of Kouadioa-Allaikro. River blindness is found in 30 African countries, in regions of six countries in the Americas, and Yemen.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

(AFP/File) - A blind man, suffering from onchocerciasis or river blindness, caused by a parasitic worm and spread by the bite of an infected blackfly, is pictured in the Ivorian town of Kouadioa-Allaikro. River blindness is found in 30 African countries, in regions of six countries in the Americas, and Yemen.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)

(AFP/ANP/File) - Pieces of freshly cut fish are seen for sale at a market in Tokyo. Nutritional balance can be achieved by eating around two portions of oily fish, containing both EPA and DHA, per week, according to some specialists.(AFP/ANP/File)

(AFP/File) - Fish sit out on display for sale at a market in suburban Manila. Nutritional balance can be achieved by eating around two portions of oily fish, containing both EPA and DHA, per week, according to some specialists.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

(AFP/File) - A nurse checks up on a typhoid fever patient in southern Philippines, earlier this year. The Philippine military has mobilised medical teams to help fight an outbreak of typhoid fever that has left more than 100 people hospitalised northeast of Manila, according to the military.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

(Stony Brook University) - Stony Brook University logo. The anti-cancer drug Avastin increases the risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs by 33 percent, according to an analysis published by US researchers Wednesday.(Stony Brook University)

(JAMA) - The anti-cancer drug Avastin increases the risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs by 33 percent, according to an analysis published by US researchers Wednesday.(JAMA)

(AFP/Keystone/File) - A pink ribbon is seen as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. The European Patent Office on Wednesday restored on appeal a controversial patent for a breast cancer gene that had been withdrawn from a US biotech firm, but granting it in a more restricted form than before.(AFP/Keystone/File/Edi Engeler)

(AFP/File) - President-elect Barack Obama has picked former Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, pictured in 2004, as his future health and human services secretary, a Democratic official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)

(AFP/File) - Zimbabwean doctors and nurses demonstrate in Harare on November 18, 2008. South Africa has treated 68 cholera patients since the weekend in a town by the border with Zimbabwe, where the disease has killed dozens of people in recent weeks, a health official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)

(AFP/File) - A nurse checks the vital signs on typhoid fever patient lying on a floor of an overcrowded hospital in Calamba city, south of the Philippines capital Manila, March 2008. As many as 109 people have fallen ill due to a suspected outbreak of typhoid fever northeast of Manila, a health department official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)

(AFP) - EU agriculture commissionner Mariann Fischer-Boel talks with Slovenian Agriculture Minister Iztok Jarc during an Agriculture Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. School pupils throughout Europe will soon be offered free fruit every week under an EU initiative agreed Wednesday to improve children's health and tackle obesity.(AFP/Dominique Faget)

(AFP) - Afflicted children are placed on a table as patients wait at a hospital in Tagoloan town in Misamis Oriental province, located in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao following a suspected outbreak of cholera. At least two people have died and more than 1,500 are in hospital following a suspected outbreak of cholera in the southern Philippines, health officials said Wednesday.(AFP)

(AFP/LANCET PRESS OFFICE) - Undated file picture of 30-year old Colombian female recipient Claudia Castillo, taken at the Hospital clinic of Barcelona. The pioneering transplant of a windpipe stripped of its cells and seeded with recipient stem cells has given Castillo a new lease on life, according to a study released Wednesday.(AFP/LANCET PRESS OFFICE)

(AFP Graphic) - Graphic explaining the landmark transplant of a windpipe seeded with the recipient's stem cells.(AFP Graphic/null)

(AFP/File) - Two people talk on mobile phones. A Japanese professor launched what he said was the world's first web-based psychotherapy sessions available via mobile phone, as the country grapples with a growing problem of depression.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

(AFP) - Visitors examine various types of toilet in Ahmedabad. A Singapore-based non-profit organisation proclaimed World Toilet Day on Wednesday, but said it was no laughing matter(AFP/Sam Panthaky)

(AFP/File) - Cigarettes burn in an ashtray. The Dutch health ministry announced plans Tuesday to impose tougher fines and heavier punishments on restaurants and pubs that continue infringing a new smoking ban.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A man holds an inhaler. One-third of Canadians with asthma have likely been wrongly diagnosed by their doctor, said a study Tuesday that blames an explosion of asthma cases in developed countries on lack of proper testing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)

(Red Cross) - The global financial crisis will result in devastating cuts to aid funding, as economies of major donor countries slip into recession, the International Federation of Red Cross said Tuesday.(Red Cross)

(AFP/File) - Twopeople infected with cholera from the Mabvuku suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare resting at a local hospital in 2007. Up to 1.4 million people in Zimbabwe are at risk of cholera, which has already claimed 73 lives, health experts said on Tuesday, as local doctors warned they lack the drugs to fight the outbreak.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)

(UNICEF) - Cholera is spreading quickly in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where rebels are fighting government troops, the UN Children's Fund(UNICEF) warned Tuesday.(UNICEF)

(AFP/File) - Chinese health enforcement officers unload a truckload of fake and unsafe drugs and medical equipment, to be destroyed in 2002. Police across Southeast Asia have arrested 27 people and seized 6.6 million dollars worth of counterfeit anti-HIV drugs, antibiotics, and other medicines, Interpol said Tuesday.(AFP/File)

(AFP/File) - Some Lesothan HIV positive get drug and ARV at a hospital in Lesotho. The country's effort to give HIV tests to everyone in the country over 12 years old has failed due to lack of funding and poor training for health workers(AFP/File/Fati Moalusi)

(AFP/File) - A US soldier drives along the Iraq-Saudi Arabia border in 1991. A congressionally-mandated panel has concluded that "Gulf War syndrome" is real and that more than a quarter of the 700,000 US veterans of the 1991 conflict suffer from the illness.(AFP/File/Pascal Guyot)

(AFP/File) - French soldiers wear chemical warfare suits during the Gulf War. A congressionally-mandated panel has concluded that "Gulf War syndrome" is real and that more than a quarter of the 700,000 US veterans of the 1991 conflict suffer from the illness.(AFP/File/Pascal Guyot)

(AFP Graphic) - Key facts on Gulf War Syndrome. A congressionally-mandated panel has concluded that "Gulf War syndrome" is real and that more than a quarter of the 700,000 US veterans of the 1991 conflict suffer from the illness.(AFP Graphic/null)

(AFP/File) - A nurse wears a surgical mask to protect against infection. Health providers must arm themselves against a deadly drug-resistant germ that is becoming increasingly common in hospitals and other settings, a study warned on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - People work out at a gym in October 2008 in San Francisco, California. Regular physical activity can significantly lower a woman's risk of developing cancer, but skimping on sleep can eliminate those gains, a study released Monday has found.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)

(AFP/File) - Lab mice. A drug which increases the release of growth hormones has failed to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in humans, despite having offered promising results in studies on mice, a study published Tuesday has found.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)

(AFP/File) - The illicit global tobacco trade is on the agenda as more than 150 countries meet in South Africa to discuss an international protocol to eliminate the illegal cross-border market.(AFP/File/Jes Aznar)