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Saturday, 15 November 2008 at 4:17 pm Posted by smp

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Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 12:49 PM CST

Li Xiaoyan sits on the lap of her mother Li Aiqing at their home in Liti village, near Runan, in China's Henan province, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Li Xiaoyan's nine-month-old twin sister, Li Xiaokai who had been drinking a brand of milk formula linked to the melamine scandal died from kidney failure. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.

Despite failures, search for obesity drugs still looks golden (AFP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 02:57 PM CST

An unidentified woman takes a walk in Washington,DC in 2007. Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world's fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.(AFP/File)AFP - Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world's fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.

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