Maria Cheng

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Europe’s financial crisis leads to suicide surge

Maria Cheng · March 27, 2013 12:24 am

Many UK doctors give useless drugs, treatments

Maria Cheng · March 21, 2013 7:44 am

UK: Public OK with creating babies from 3 people

Maria Cheng · March 20, 2013 2:37 pm

Pope’s partial lung shouldn’t affect duties

Maria Cheng · March 14, 2013 10:14 pm

Study: UK among unhealthiest of W. Europe nations

Maria Cheng · March 5, 2013 8:38 am

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2005 file photo, a mother gently places her son in a basket as she takes him to a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic after he contracted malaria, in Lankien, Southern Sudan. The fight against malaria is slowing down with a dramatic drop in the number of protective bednets distributed last year, even as health officials insist they will try to meet their ambitious target of eliminating deaths from the parasitic disease by the end of 2015. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

Malaria progress falters, WHO goals unrealistic

Maria Cheng · December 17, 2012 2:25 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2009 file photo, a general practitioner measures the blood pressure of a man at a surgery in Stuttgart, Germany. Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But more and more the world is grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats nation by nation. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker

Maria Cheng · December 13, 2012 8:56 pm

FILE - This is a Jan. 14, 2006 file photo of a street vendor selling regional smoked cheese 'oscypek ' in Zakopane, Poland. Little Miss Muffet could have been separating her curds and whey from the sixth millennium B.C., according to a new study that finds the earliest solid evidence of cheese-making. Scientists performed a chemical analysis on fragments from 34 pottery sieves discovered in Poland to determine what they were used for. Until now, experts weren't sure whether such sieves were used to make cheese, beer or honey. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Cheese first made at least 7,500 years ago

Maria Cheng · December 12, 2012 8:53 pm

FILE - Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge seen during her visit to St. Andrewâs School, where she attended school, in Pangbourne, England, in this file photo dated Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby, St James's Palace officially announced Monday Dec. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Arthur Edwards, File)

Explainer: Why was pregnant duchess hospitalized?

Maria Cheng · December 3, 2012 8:49 pm

WHO: 2 more cases of new virus in Jordan

Maria Cheng · November 30, 2012 6:34 pm

Officials debate whether to scrap malaria program

Maria Cheng · October 31, 2012 4:15 am

Animals suspected in spread of new virus

Maria Cheng · September 28, 2012 1:04 pm