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World Health Organisation slashes Iraq toll

A new study conducted by the World Health Organization and the Iraq Health Ministry, puts the estimated death count in Iraq since the US invasion at 151,000 – about a quarter of the figure estimated by John Hopkins University.

Circumcision might be the kindest cut

The Health Department in South Australia is now reviewing its position on male circumcision after Victoria joined NSW, Western Australia and Tasmania and recently stopped allowing the procedure at public hospitals for non-medical reasons, writes Dr Alex Wodak