HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a chemical compound that can stop the H5N1 bird flu virus as well as seasonal human flu viruses from replicating.

OSLO (Reuters) - The Group of Eight industrialized nations plan to invest in better health for mothers and young children in poor nations to meet faltering goals for slashing world poverty by 2015, a draft text for a G8 summit said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study confirms a link between obesity and asthma.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Memo to adults with heart disease: If you’re already eating a fair amount of fish and taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements, the extra boost may not be doing much to help your heart.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rate of induced labor among U.S. pregnant women nearly doubled between 1992 and 2003 — a trend that seems to have pushed more births to the earlier end of full-term, a new study finds.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Prescribing heroin to addicts who can’t kick their habit helps them stay off street drugs, British researchers said Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If milk does the heart good, it might do the heart better if it comes from dairy cows grazed on grass instead of on feedlots, according to a new study.

KIGALI (Reuters) - At midnight Valentine Uwingabire’s back began to hurt. Her husband ran to tell Germaine Uwera, a community health worker in their village in the fertile foothills of Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Australian girl and her mother are the first people to try an experimental treatment for a deadly virus after the girl’s horse died from the infection, researchers said on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blacksmith Brands Inc recalled on Friday four of its children’s cough and cold medicines made at a Johnson & Johnson plant which was temporarily closed after U.S. regulators found manufacturing lapses.