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The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Conexant Systems, Herley Industries, Exide Technologies, Vical, and Motricity. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: ADDvantage Technologies Group, PennantPark Investment, Breitburn Energy Partners, Allot Communications, and Glu Mobile.

The Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) is considering a major overhaul of revenue-sharing that will see South Africa keeping a far bigger slice of pooled customs receipts, according to a policy document.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a respiratory infection that led to his hospitalisation last week but doctors are worried there may be too many people trying to visit him.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: NPS Pharmaceuticals, DepoMed, Xenoport, Sohu.com, and Glu Mobile. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Mattson Technology, Partner Communications, Savient Pharmaceuticals, Silicom, and CIENA.

A computer worm that first appeared more than two years ago is still a threat, even though security experts were successful in mitigating possible damage.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Ener1, Eagle Bulk Shipping, Sinovac Biotech, LM Ericsson Telephone, and Silicon Laboratories. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: MIPS Technologies, RF Micro Devices, Pacific Sunwear of California, CIENA, Gilead Sciences, and Yahoo!.

With the reopening of clinic where a hyperbaric chamber exploded killing a woman and her grandson, the debate over the dependability of these medical devices has risen again. Hyperbaric Chambers, life-saving devices or killer machines?

Zsa Zsa Gabor and her husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt are planning to sell their Bel Air, Calif., mansion for about $28 million. An option of lease and buy is also available, said John Blanchette, a publicist for Gabor.

The Emmy award-winning actress Debbi Morgan, 54 year-old, hasconfessed that she is diagnosed with Lyme disease on a recent Tom Joyner Morning Show.

British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections -- a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading and causing deadly epidemics in humans.

Rockville-based biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced the start of a early-stage clinical trial for its third generation Anthrax vaccine candidate called NuThrax.

Foodborne disease, commonly called food poisoning, is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food. Salmonella was the leading cause of foodborne disease in the U.S., according to a study.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: CyberDefender, Lattice Semiconductor, support.com, Cost Plus, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Cogo Group, Sky-mobi, LJ International, Entropic Communications, and Novavax.

German researchers say they have cured a man of HIV infection that could prove to be a scientific advance but researchers familiar with the work feel it is not necessarily a treatment advance.

The World Health Organization has endorsed a new, rapid tuberculosis (TB) test that can diagnose the killer disease within two hours.

Pharma giant Merck said it discontinued Isentress once daily study in treatment-naïve adult HIV-1 patients after it failed to show non-inferiority to the treatment regimen that included Isentress twice daily.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Magic Software Enterprises, Tesla Motors, Deckers Outdoor, F5 Networks, DryShips, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Amazon.com, Baidu, Oracle, and Netflix.

Researchers in the United States have developed a new biosensor from plasmonic nanohole arrays to detect dangerous viruses like Ebola and Marburg. The tool could be used in developing nations, airports and other places where natural or man-made outbreaks could erupt.

DARMSTADT, Germany (Reuters Life!) - A German pop singer who confessed to knowingly exposing two men to the risk of HIV after finding out she had the virus herself was convicted by a court Thursday of grievous bodily harm.

As many as hundreds of WA patients who had received treatments from a number of regional hospitals in Northwest of WA breathe a sigh of relief as they have been cleared of any serious infections including HIV and hepatitis following the breach of infection control measures by an anaesthetist.

Health authorities revealed on Thursday that there are three Australians infected with the superbug or bacteria resistant to antibiotics.