TOKYO, May 20 (Kyodo) - Group of Eight finance ministers are expected to discuss global economic conditions, development issues and how to tackle climate change during their upcoming meeting in Osaka in June, Vice Finance Minister Hiroki Tsuda said Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

Australia: Head protection push for children, the elderly Courier Mail Ainsley Pavey PROTECTIVE headgear for babies and the elderly could become compulsory in Queensland childcare centres and nursing homes amid brain injury fears. Australia’s Brain Injury Centre is leading a push for a State Government trial of the headwear, which has been designed and manufactured by a suburban Brisbane mother. Fears of ‘cotton wool’ generation Parenting in-depth sectionUp to 50,000 people suffer brainhttp://friedbrains.com/?p=2137...

Australia: Head protection push for children, the elderly Courier Mail Ainsley Pavey PROTECTIVE headgear for babies and the elderly could become compulsory in Queensland childcare centres and nursing homes amid brain injury fears. Australia’s Brain Injury Centre is leading a push for a State Government trial of the headwear, which has been designed and manufactured by a suburban Brisbane mother. Fears of ‘cotton wool’ generation Parenting in-depth sectionUp to 50,000 people suffer brainhttp://friedbrains.com/?p=2137...

John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, the latest casualty of a presidential campaign eager to cauterize damage caused by its ties to lobbyists.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

Hospital antibiotics 'fuelling superbugs' Extract from the Telegraph: "GPs are already being urged not to hand out the drugs for coughs and colds but many hospital doctors also overuse the medication, Prof Mark Wilcox, of Leeds University, said. Prof Wilcox, an expert on the control of hospital acquired infections, will tell a conference on intensive care medicine in London next week that part of the problem is that the health service does not know what antibiotics hospitals prescribe."http://aboutsalt.blogspot.com/2008/05/hosp...