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Rambo
John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, living a solitary and peaceful life in the mountains...
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Choke Trailer HD
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay...
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U.S.
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New York finds more probable cases, more schools closed
New York - Authorities confirmed Thursday a total of 49 swine flu cases in New York City and...
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Swine flu suspected of inflicting Marine
Washington - A US Marine is suspected of having contracted swine flu and has been quarantined at...
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US braces for worse from swine flu
Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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Case of Craigslist killer captivates America
San Francisco (dpa) - A medical student who allegedly targeted women advertising erotic services on...
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ROUNDUP: Three dead in California hospital shooting
Los Angeles - A hospital worker killed his boss and another manager at the Long Beach Memorial...
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Two dead in California hospital shooting
Los Angeles - A gunman killed one person and then took his own life when he opened fire at the Long...
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Red Cross: Medical personnel aided torture of US terrorism suspects
Washington/Geneva - Medical personnel aided in the interrogation of US-held terrorism...
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Girl Found Dead at Fort Lewis Barracks
Two girls were found irresponsive in an Army barracks at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington. One of...
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Court Denies Vaccines – Autism Link
There is no scientific evidence to prove childhood vaccines cause autism, according to a special...
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Chemical Exposure Scare Shuts Down San Jose Medical Center
Authorities announced that some parts of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from San Jose were...
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Second Peanut Butter Factory Closes Its Doors
The authorities continue to investigate the salmonella outbreak. Representatives at the company...
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Federal Panel: California Must Release 58,000 Inmates
Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state of California must reduce the number of inmates in...
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The NTSB Is Looking To Prevent Medical Helicopter Accidents
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, over the past 12 months, there have been an...
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The Two Boys Killed in Terrible Car Crash Might Have Been Brothers
Authorities reported on Thursday that three boys got killed after they had run away from the police...
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L.A. Man Kills Wife, 5 Young Children and Himself
A Los Angeles man shot and killed his wife and their five young children before killing himself....
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Human Stem Cell Research Gains Grounds in the US
Stem cell research is making another step to the future in the United States. Geron Corp, a...
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California Hospital Death Rates For 2006/2007 Released
In an attempt to help improve health care and people looking for better places to treat their...
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Hospital Fire Forces 600 Patients To Move
Six firefighters were injured and 600 patients had to be moved across a major hospital in New York...
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Fewer Americans Dying From First Heart Attack
Researchers from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University in New York City...
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Conjoined Twins Regain Self After Surgery At Oklahoma Hospital
A long surgery performed on Monday at the Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center gave a...
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The Big Day Has Come!
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are descending on Washington, hoping to see history unveil in...
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Groups, States File Suit Against U.S. Government On Abortion Rule
Seven states and two abortion rights groups filed suit against the...
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Seven States Sue over Bush Anti-Abortion Rule
Thursday, seven states sued the federal government over a rule that further expands...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Health Officials In Minnesota: Peanut Butter Might Have Started Salmonella Outbreak
Even if federal officials have yet to establish the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has...
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Barack Obama’s Health Reform Gets Vote Of Confidence
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Rumors Say that Gupta Will Be Surgeon General
Analysts believe that Sanjay Gupta might be the most influential surgeon general, if he is chosen...
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Sanjay Gupta Is Obama’s Pick for Surgeon General
President-elect Barack Obama's choice for surgeon general is CNN medical correspondent and...
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Blue Shield Agrees To Reimburse
Blue Shield has been involved in a controversy recently, regarding medical coverage in an already...
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Obama’s Health Care Reform May Not Work
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Music
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Michael Jackson Announces “Final Curtain” Concerts
Michael Jackson has re-entered the public eye after eight years discernible more through the...
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Louie Bellson Passed Away
Who does not know Louie Bellson, the great jazz drummer, the master musician who had the honor to...
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Usher Ditches Grammy Performance Due To Wife’s Illness
This year’s Grammy Awards were neglected not only by Chris Brown and Rihanna, who cancelled...
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Singer Mindy McCready In Hospital After Suicide Attempt
Country singer Mindy McCready is in a stable condition after her suicide attempt, Centennial ...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer dies at 61
San Francisco - Drummer Mitch Mitchell, who with Jimi Hendrix founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience...
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Britney Spears' Youngest Son, Jayden, Hospitalized After Seizure
What should have been a fun family homecoming turned into a medical scare for Britney Spears as her...
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Britney Spears Under Father’s Conservatorship Indefinitely
A court commissioner ruled Tuesday that pop singer Britney
Spears would remain under the...
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Britney Spears Agrees With Dad's Permanent Control Over Her Affairs
A judge decided on Tuesday that Britney Spears is not ready to handle everything by herself just...
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Amy Winehouse Hospitalized For Lung And Chest Problems Again
British songbird Amy Winehouse, whose health has been raising concerns for a long time, was...
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Janet Jackson To Reprise Tour And Hit The Stage
Can Janet Jackson really rock with us again? After
postponing several concerts due to health...
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Janet Jackson Postpones "Rock Witchu" Shows at Doctor’s Order
Pop star Janet Jackson decided to postpone some of her future performances within her "Rock...
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Janet Jackson Continues String Of Cancellations
An eighth show has been cancelled on Janet Jackson’s
would-be comeback tour, Rock Witchu, as her...
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Eddie Van Halen To Wed Band's Publicist Janie Liszewski
Healthier than he's ever been, Eddie Van Halen is ready and eager to spend the rest of his days...
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Janet Jackson Ill, Postpones More Shows
R&B icon Janet Jackson has postponed yet more concerts
of her current Rock Witchu Tour due to...
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Janet Jackson Hospitalized For Mystery Illness
Janet Jackson is in the midst of a North American concert
tour but has cancelled a Montreal
show...
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Travis Barker and DJ AM To Recover From Burns Within A Year
The scary news of Travis Barker and DJ AM’s plane crash
Friday night in South Carolina
is now...
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Travis Barker, DJ AM Suffer Burns In Plane Crash
Travis Barker, the former drummer of Blink 182, and DJ AM
have survived a terrible plane crash...
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Amy Winehouse Returns to Spotlight, Unhappiest News Ever
It’s been a quiet few weeks in what regards the troubled
life of British singer Amy Winehouse but...
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It’s A Baby Boy For Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale
The musicians’ family is enlarging with another member. Will
he sing, too? Thirty-eight-year old...
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Dave Matthews Band Performs In Memory Of Their Sax Man
LeRoi Moore, sax player for Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday
due to complications from injuries he...
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Dave Matthews’ Sax Player Passes Away
LeRoi Moore, one of the founding members and saxophonist of
the Dave Matthews Band passed away...
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Legendary Soul Singer Isaac Hayes Found Dead In Memphis Home
This weekend has been full of unpleasant events. First Bernie Mac died, now Academy Award winner...
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Lollapalooza Starts Today, Tickets Sold Out
Tickets for day one at the festival in Grant Park have sold
out, Lollapalooza spokeswoman Shelby...
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Mindy McCready Suffers Nervous Breakdown, Enters Rehab
Country singer Mindy McCready has reportedly entered rehab
after visiting an emergency room in...
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DMX’s Jailhouse Rap Keeps on Going
Rapper DMX is behind bars once again
after being detained by the police in Phoenix,
Arizona at a...
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James Brown’s Belongings Sold For $800,000
Christie’s auction house sold the belongings of James Brown
for $800,000.
Fans of the Godfather...
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Singer Natalie Cole Diagnosed With Hepatitis C
The Grammy-winning singer, who last made headlines for her comments about drug addict Amy...
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Conductor J. Levine to Miss Tanglewood Due to Kidney Surgery
James Levine, the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will reportedly miss the...
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Timothy Wright Seriously Injured in Car Crash, Wife and Grandson Die
Grammy Award nominated singer Timothy Wright, whose
illustrious career earned him the moniker...
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Amy Winehouse Has Serious Lung Problems
In an interview for the British newspaper Daily
Mail, Mitch Winehouse said that his daughter, Amy...
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Movies
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Close to death, Farah Fawcett blasts paparazzi
Los Angeles - Former sex symbol Farah Fawcett, reportedly terminally ill with cancer, has blasted...
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Kal Penn Leaves House MD For White House
Kal Penn, the Indian-American who portrayed Dr. Lawrence Kutner in the TV drama “House...
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Over 17 million tune in for final ER episode
Los Angeles - The curtain came down on long-running US medical drama ER Thursday night with over...
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Morgan Freeman’s ‘Friend’ Sues Him Over Car Crash
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman is facing a lawsuit filed against him by his female...
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Patrick Swayze Not Giving Up Cancer Treatment
Contrary to a huge mass of reports claiming that actor Patrick Swayze has stopped receiving medical...
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“Grey’s Anatomy” Offers the Wish to Know More about Medical Facts
Male fans of “Grey’s Anatomy” got scared on Friday night after one of the doctors...
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George Clooney Returns To His ‘ER’ Roots
Let’s hope those scrubs still fit George Clooney, who despite his rep’s denial, will be...
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"Notorious," a Good Way to Remember the Hip Hop Star
“Notorious” is a biographical film who depicts the life of the hip hop star Notorious...
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'Scrubs' Returns To The Roots In New Season Airing On ABC
The quirky bunch on 'Scrubs' are ready to make their fans laugh once again when the new season of...
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Piven Gets No Relief after Sushi Ordeal
Jeremy Piven’s withdrawal from David Mamet’s Broadway play...
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Dennis Quaid Gets $750,000 Settlement From Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife agreed to a $750,000 settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in...
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TR Knight Wishes to Leave “Grey’s Anatomy” Cast
Rumor has
it that TR Knight, who portrays Doctor George O’Malley in the „Grey’s
Anatomy” TV...
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T. R. Knight Planning Exit from “Grey’s Anatomy”
Another cast member is leaving ABC medical drama “Grey’s
Anatomy,” as T. R. Knight is reported to...
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Actor Vinnie Jones Facing Assault Charges Following Bar Fight
British movie star Vinnie Jones lived up to his "tough guy" reputation Thursday night...
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Keanu Reeves Cleared in Dubious Paparazzo Lawsuit
The jury weighing whether Keanu Reeves was at fault or not
for a paparazzo’s alleged...
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Keanu Reeves Cleared Of Paparazzi Abuse
Actor Keanu Reeves was glad to find out a Los Angeles jury unanimously rejected a civil trial...
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Update: Keanu Reeves Is Free Of All Charges
Keanu Reeves’ trial issued by a paparazzo is now finished and the actor has been cleared of all...
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Jury Clears Keanu Reeves In Paparazzo Case
The jury didn’t take more than an hour to figure out that a tabloid paparazzo didn’t have what he...
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'Desperate Housewives' Hottie Critically Injured In Motorcycle Crash
Actor Gale Harold who plays Teri Hatcher's new boyfriend on ABC's drama "Desperate...
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Concerned Citizen In Locklear Arrest Case May Have Own Concerns
The person who apparently did a good deed by calling police
when she saw a confused Heather...
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Hilary Swank Is Currently Recovering After Surgery
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank had to be hospitalized in order to remove a benign tumor, her...
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Darren Aronofsky Wrestles Golden Lion Out Of Venice
The aging hero who battles time and wins – now here is a
story the grace of which never fails to...
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Without Don LaFontaine, Movie Trailers Will Never Sound The Same
The most famous
voice in the U.S.A. died Monday. Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized
the...
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'I Served The King Of England' – A Funny And Emotional Czech Story
In his latest film based on a Bohumil Hrabal novel, director
Jiri Menzel managed to tell the...
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Scandal over the R-Word
It appears that Ben Stiller, who co-wrote and directed the
comedy “Tropic
Thunder” didn’t get his...
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“Tropic Thunder” Is Full Of Surprises
The upcoming comedy “Tropic Thunder” which opens
on August 13 features some notorious names like...
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Heath Ledger’s Case is Dropped
Federal prosecutors have decided to drop the criminal case about how Heath
Ledger obtained the...
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Morgan Freeman And Wife Divorcing After Quarter Century
More Morgan Freeman news: The actor, who fractured his arm
and elbow Sunday in a car crash and is...
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Nikki Blonsky Will Appear in Criminal Court
“Hairspray” star Nikki Blonsky is likely to have another
lawsuit on the role, due to assault...
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Shia LaBeouf’s Hand “Crushed” in Accident, Still at Risk
Actor Shia LaBeouf’s recovery after undergoing “extensive”
surgery on his left hand following the...
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Science
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Nefertiti's "hidden face" proves Berlin bust is not Hitler's fake
Hamburg - Using 21st Century medical computer technology, German researchers have unveiled the...
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Dutch researchers discover sudden heart failure gene
Amsterdam - Researchers have discovered the gene responsible for sudden heart failure among young...
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NASA Delays Discovery Launch Again
NASA delayed the launch of space shuttle discovery for the fifth time. This time the space agency...
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NASA’s Discovery Shuttle to Launch Tonight
NASA’s space shuttle Discovery is set for launch on Wednesday on a mission that aims to...
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Researchers Find Virus-Free Way Of Reprogramming Stem Cells
Stem cells have always been controversial, from ethical and biological point of view, but the...
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New Flu Vaccine Based On Human Antibodies May Come In Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Newer Antipsychotics Double Heart Risks
The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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New Drug From Genetically Engineered Goats May Be On Its Way
The Food and Drug Administration revealed Wednesday that for the first time an...
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Researchers Will Test Breast Cancer Vaccine
Good news for cancer fighters all around the world! Scientists at the University of Arkansas for...
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Holiday Myths Scrutinized By Researchers
Ah the holidays! Whether you celebrate Christmas or Chanukah, or Capitalism, one and all,...
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Heart Disease Rates Are On Decline
Deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes have declined by about 30 percent since 1999 most...
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Study Says Immune System Works Stronger At Night
Medical research is an on-going process, whether the aim is to find cures for cancer and AIDS or a...
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Vatican Puts Stem Cell Research, Cloning, In Vitro on List of Sins
The Roman Catholic Church applauds the developments of
medicine in the scientific age we live in,...
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Brain Swelling: The Cause Of Many Deaths On Mount Everest
Not avalanches, falling ice or lung problems seem to be the reasons for which many climbers on...
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Upset? Call a Friend Near You!
Happiness seems to be transmitted through social networks, almost like a germ is spread through...
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Study Says Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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EPA Adopts Tighter Medical Waste Management Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to move
forward with the proposed regulations over...
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Obese Older Women Have An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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Harvard Scientists Unravel The Secret Of Aging
As we get older, our health becomes our worst enemy. What’s
the secret of living a longer healthy...
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Study: CT Scans Nearly As Accurate As Angiography
New research published in this week’s New England Journal of
Medicine reveals that noninvasive CT...
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Research: Exercise May Diminish Cancer Risk
Regular exercise can help sufferers in the fight against cancer, according to new research....
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Study: Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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Avastin Drug Linked To Blood Clots
Research
conducted by United States scientists has revealed that the
Avastin cancer drug...
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Study: Ginkgo Biloba No Good To Prevent Alzheimer’s
Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of
years. Today, it is one of the top...
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First Stem Cells Trachea Transplant
An article in the British medical journal The Lancet
recently reported that physicians from four...
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Study: Vitamin C, E Supplements Fail To Reduce Cancer Risk
A series of studies have lately shown that vitamins don’t reduce
cancer risk. Just two weeks ago,...
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Study: Magnetic Substance In MP3 Player Headphones Deludes Pacemakers
The impact of portable devices on pacemakers and defibrillators
has been the subject of fiery...
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Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism
Children living in regions with higher levels of annual
rainfall may be more predisposed to...
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NASA's Space Tourist Is Back On Earth
The return of the Soyuz capsule carrying space tourist
Richard Garriott and cosmonauts Oleg...
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Cancer Treatment Connected To Gene Make-Up
Recently, scientists have discovered another gene mutation, which makes bowel cancer patients...
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Specials
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Casey Aldridge Badly Injured in Car Crash
It has been who knows how long since we herd something about Casey Aldridge and Jamie Lynn Spears,...
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Report: Verizon and Apple in Talks for an iPhone Partnership
Apple and the iPhone are too-large of a boon to chew for only one dog. The dog that has been...
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Stem Cell Transplant Shows Promise in Treating Type 1 Diabetes
Scientific world may soon offer a solution for millions of people suffering from type 1 diabetes...
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Bone Fractures May Soon Have a Cure
A drug currently prescribed for osteoporosis may be available soon for people suffering from bone...
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Octomom Wants to Trademark the Name
Nadya Suleman, the controversial mom that gave birth to octuplets, encountered some trouble in her...
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Depression Boosts Risk for Heart Failure
Heart disease patients who are depressed are at a greater danger of developing heart failure,...
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Type 1 Diabetics Closer To Be Cured
Type 1 diabetics may soon benefit from a treatment that could enable them to survive without the...
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Brown Fat Makes You Slimmer
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that adults still have a type of fat that...
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After TV suicide, actor finds new life in White House
Los Angeles - After a sudden suicide in the hit US TV medical drama House MD, actor Kal Penn found...
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Restless Legs Syndrome Associated with Obesity
Having too much belly fat appears to be an increasing risk even for developing restless legs...
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Intel and GE Sign $250 Million Deal in Health Care Field
Two Giant US companies announced Thursday that they will team up to produce a line of...
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Need a dog toilet, a knotless balloon? Meet the inventors
Geneva - What to do if you live next door to a veterinarian whose clients' dogs always leave behind...
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Most Americans Should Reduce Salt Intake, But Do They?
As rates for high blood pressure and implicitly for heart disease and stroke are dramatically...
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FDA Ordered To Reconsider Restrictions on the Morning-After Pill
No matter she’s over 18 or not, every girl in the US should have access to the morning-after...
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New Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Proves Successful in Mice
A study published in the 20 March issue of the journal Science concluded that by electrically...
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Fritzl wanted "second family" in cellar, says lawyer
St Poelten, Austria / Berlin - "He wanted to build up a second family in the...
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Anna Nicole Smith’s Boyfriend, Doctors Charged with Conspiracy
Ana Nicole Smith’s longtime boyfriend and two doctors were charged on Thursday for giving the...
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
If you don’t know the song, now it’s a good time to search for it and listen. It might...
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Optimism Adds Years to Your Life
Having a healthy concept about life has always helped people to forget things that made them...
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Unhappy Marriages May Hurt Women’s Heart, Literally
Marital stress raises health risks for women, but nor for men, according to a new study presented...
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FDA-Approved Labels - No Guarantee against Lawsuits
The US Supreme Court ruled against pharmaceutical company Wyeth on Wednesday in a case involving...
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Radiation Exposure for Americans Is 7 Times Higher
A recent study revealed the staggering fact that the radiation levels to which American citizens...
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Parents Can Now Have the Perfect Baby
A fertility clinic with offices in New York and Los Angeles will offer parents the chance of...
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ABC Cancels Second Season of “Life on Mars”
It’s back to earth again as ABC’s “Life on Mars” will not return for a...
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U.S. to Allow States to Make Their Own Rules on Marijuana
Recently, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has begun hinting at the fact that President...
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Healthy Men Should Take Finasteride to Prevent Prostate Cancer
Healthy men who want to prevent prostate cancer should begin taking finasteride, a drug used to...
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Octomom Is Eager To Take Her Children Home
Nadya Suleman told TV host "Dr. Phil" McGraw on Tuesday that she fears Kaiser Permanente...
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New Flu Vaccine Based on Human Antibodies May Come in Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Doctors at Cleveland Clinic Weigh Chimp Victim’s Alternatives
Surgeons at famous Cleveland Clinic in Ohio find themselves in front of a difficult case, as they...
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Medtronic’s Brain Stimulator Gets FDA Approval for OCD Patients
Patients suffering from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that has not responded to medication...
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Business
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GE claims data storage breakthrough with 100 DVDs on one disc
San Francisco - General Electric has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology, using...
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Apple Posts Strong Financial Results, Beats Expectations
Apple Inc.’s financial report for the first quarter of the current fiscal year easily topped...
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Medicare Decides To Expand Coverage For Cancer Drugs
Doctors and patients who need Medicare reimbursement for certain experimental treatments...
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Natus Medical Q4 Results Below Expectations
Tough economic conditions have made Natus Medical Incorporated project its fourth-quarter and...
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Apple Will Certainly Make It Over The Next Five Months
The discussions on Steve Jobs’ health appear to keep on going, as the interest on the...
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UnitedHealth Agrees To Update Its Database
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new...
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Vicks VapoRub Linked To Breathing Problems In Infants
A new study has recently revealed that Vicks VapoRub, a popular cold remedy, could cause airway...
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Abbott to Purchase Advanced Medical for $1.36 Billion
Monday, Abbott Laboratories Incorporated announced it would buy Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) for...
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Abbott Acquires Advanced Medical Optics for $1.36 Billion
Medical products and drug maker Abbott Laboratories on Monday said it has agreed to purchase...
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New York Times Co Selling Red Sox Stake
Friday, the Financial Times reported that the New York Times Company had started searching for...
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The Gates Foundation Delivers On Its Projects
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced earlier today the kickoff of a $6.9 million...
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Palm Gets Its Own App Store
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Wyeth Accused Of Paying Medical Ghostwriters For Medical Articles
Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid a medical writing company to ghostwrite articles about its...
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Medicare Premiums To Remain Steady In 2009
Medicare
officials have announced that 2009 would be the sixth year not to register an...
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German Billionairess Triumphant in Takeover Battle
Berlin - The bitter power struggle for the giant German auto supplier Continental AG ended in the...
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US inflation hits 17-year high in July
Washington - US inflation was the highest in 17 years in July as consumer prices rose 5.6 per cent...
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Salmonella Outbreak Moves to Court; Wal-Mart Sued by Victim
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been sued by a Colorado man who says he got sick of
salmonellosis after...
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Google Rolls Out Knol. An Alternative To Wikipedia?
More than half a year after first unveiling the Knol
concept, Google rolled out the new...
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Fresenius Acquires APP for $4.6 Billion
Fresenius SE, the biggest European producer of intravenous medicines, will purchase APP...
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Google Health Brings First Insurer Aboard
On Thursday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts said
it would become the first health insurer...
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FDA Offices Slowed Down by Chinese Bureaucracy
After last year’s discovery of a series of contaminated
drugs and food shipments from China,
the...
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Fujifilm Makes $1.44 Billion Offer to Purchase Toyama Chemical
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. made public on Wednesday its offer of about ¥155 billion ($1.44 billion) to...
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Philips to Acquire Respironics for $ 5,1B
Royal Philips Electronics NV, one of the largest electronics companies in the world and the biggest...
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Medical Device Makers Settle Kickbacks Probe for $311M
Four medical device makers reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice totaling $311...
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Metz Fresh Issues Voluntary Spinach Recall, No People Infected
Metz Fresh, LLC announced it found traces of Salmonella bacteria in its spinach bags and is...
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Boston Scientific Will Settle Defibrillator Probes
Boston Scientific Corp., a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices, has...
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Spinach Recall Due to Salmonella Threat
More than 68,000 pounds of bagged spinach are to be withdrawn from market by a Monterey County...
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Medtronic Buys Kyphon for $3.9 Billion
The medical company Medtronic announced it will acquire the
device maker Kyphon in a transaction...
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Wyeth's Lybrel Contraceptive Approved By FDA
US
Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive designed to
stop women’s...
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Austrian Wine Industry Takes A Hit
The Austrian debate over teenage binge drinking has been
fueled by a controversial radio ad that...
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Technology
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WSJ: Steve Jobs Still In Charge At Apple
Despite being on medical leave until June, Steve Jobs is still involved in Apple’s...
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Steve Jobs To Show Up At WWDC 09?
When Apple has just announced the schedule for its upcoming WWDC event, one question popped out...
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Apple Board Offered No New Info On Jobs During Annual Meeting
Steve Jobs may not make the world go round, but he does have life and death power over Apple...
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Hoax Story About Steve Jobs’ Death Hits Wired
Wired.com has become the victim of a prankster who published a hoax story saying that Apple CEO...
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Apple to Release Q1 Earnings Report
Apple Inc will most likely release its earnings report for the first quarter on Wednesday, January...
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Hudson River Plane Crash Picture Makes Twitter User Famous
Janis Krums became famous after being the first to upload a picture of the Hudson River plane crash...
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Tim Cook: The quiet man behind Apple's success
San Francisco - Few world-class companies are so closely associated with one man as Apple is with...
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Jobs’ Health Issues Cause Quite a Stir Inside the Company
Apple’s shares were down by 4.8% to $81.29 in morning trading on Thursday as a consequence of...
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Will Apple Face Lawsuits Because Of A Tight-Lipped Approach To Jobs' Health?
Even if many people only think of Steve Jobs' speedy recovery, members of the legal and investment...
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Could You Imagine Apple Without Steve Jobs?
The announcement made by Steve Jobs that he is leaving the company until June due to medical...
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Steve Jobs Announces He Will Keep His Job As Apple CEO
Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, responded on Monday to months of rumors about his health, making the...
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Media, Our Children’s Parent?
The U.S. National Institutes of Health, Yale University and the California Pacific Medical Center...
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Baidu’s Revealed Search Ad Scandal
China's Internet search leader Baidu said on Friday it will overhaul operations due to the fact...
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Intel Develops Health Care Program
Intel announced at a medical conference in New Orleans that it will introduce technology which will...
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NVIDIA Reveals First 4GB Professional Graphics Card
Today NVIDIA announced the newest of the professional Quadro
line of graphics cards, the Quadro FX...
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Ever Wanted a Cray Supercomputer? Now for $25K You Can Have One
Back in April, Cray and Intel Corp. formed a partnership to “collaborate to develop future...
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Immersion Settles The Rumble Lawsuit With Microsoft For $20.8 Million
Immersion will pay $20.8 million to Microsoft to settle the
lawsuit triggered by the tactile...
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Intel Rolls Out Its New System-On-A-Chip Technology
On Thursday, Intel addressed the embedded market with the first eight products of its...
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Update 1: Why Knol Won’t Be Wikipedia
Google has finally unveiled one of its latest projects, Knol, an online-publishing service which...
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Google Rolls Out Knol, Authors' Cash Flow Alternative To Wikipedia
More than half a year after first unveiling the Knol
concept, Google rolled out the new...
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Medpedia, The Online Collaborative Project On Health
Almost everyone who uses the Internet surely knows about
Wikipedia, the largest online...
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Panasonic Unveils Its New Toughbook
Today, Panasonic announced the release of it new ruggedized
notebook, the Toughbook CF-U1, which...
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Doctors Are Not Ready For Electronic Medical Records
According to a national survey conducted by the U.S. government, doctors have a hard time switching...
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Aliph Offers You Jawbone 2
As the hands-free driving legislation will be adopted in
five states and the District of
...
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Microsoft Presents Thoughts On Online Privacy
A few days ago, The
Federal Trade Commission presented their proposition on the guidelines for...
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Verizon, AT&T Reveal Their Plans For The Wireless Spectrum
Verizon Wireless said that the spectrum it gained in the FCC’s
700 MHz auction will allow the...
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AMD Offers ATI FireGL V7700 For Professionals
AMD unveiled first commercially available 3D workstation
graphics card with DisplayPort support,...
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Study Warns: Heart Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacker Attacks
U.S. researchers unveiled on Wednesday
that even humans can be vulnerable to hacker attacks. How...
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Google Expands Into Medical Software Business
Google Inc. is continuing its expansion into new IT business areas, with the announcement of a...
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Google.org Started Giving Grants
The charitable arm of Internet search engine company Google, Google.org, has announced it will...
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Sports
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Sore back shelves Iverson for rest of the season
Los Angeles - Unhappy with his recent demotion from a starter to a reserve, Allen...
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Safin Siblings Storm Into Hopman Final Against Slovakia
Perth, Australia - Marat Safin and sister Dinara Safina completed a dream scenario as a 2-1 win...
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Hewitt Hip Holds Up In Australia Loss To Germany
Perth, Australia - Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a...
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Weight Training Improves Strength And Mobility
Bonn, Germany - The image of the body-builder with bulging thighs and arms no longer fits the...
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Van Nistelrooy out for season after knee surgery
Madrid - Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy is expected to be sidelined for the rest of the...
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Nadal steps down from Davis Cup final over knee injury
Barcelona - Spain's Rafael Nadal, world number one, stepped down from the Davis Cup final against...
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Massa in command to win in Valencia
Valencia, Spain - Ferrari's Felipe Massa kept McLaren rival Lewis Hamilton in check to clinch...
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Olympics were close to disaster - huge TV income
The Beijing Olympics were close to becoming a disaster over the protest-marred torch relay,...
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One Lucky Indianapolis 500 Race
The 92nd Indianapolis 500 race offered a set of worrying incidents during this weekend’s Memorial...
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Authorities All Over Baseball Related Steroids Scandal
Federal authorities announced yesterday an indictment on a
Californian doctor who apparently...
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Blood On Ice: Zednik Had His Neck Cut By A Skate
Slovakian forward Richard Zednik
of the Florida Panthers took a nasty cut on the Sunday’s game...
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Moss Fights Back, Accuses Alleged Victim of Extortion
Randy Moss can’t even sit back
and relax after the history-making season with the Patriots, as...
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Everett Makes Remarkable Recovery
Kevin Everett showed remarkable signs
of recovery upon his Sunday stopover to the Buffalo Bills...
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Blockbuster Deal: Tigers Get Cabrera & Willis from Marlins
The Detroit Tigers and the Florida Marlins reached an agreement on Tuesday that already sent...
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Former Marathon Champ Tragically Dies During US Marathon
Saturday was a black day not just for the US athletics, but all around the world. Former US...
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Leafs’ Jason Blake Diagnosed with Rare Form of Leukemia
Maple Leafs forward Jason Blake was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia that fortunately is of...
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Football Player Gunned Down In University Campus
Taylor Bradford, the Memphis University’s defensive lineman, was shot and killed Sunday night in...
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Teen Soccer Player Dies While Training
A teenage soccer player collapsed on the field and died during a training session in Croatia, local...
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Alligator Bites Off Diver’s Arm, Victim Will Get the Reptile’s Head
A man was brought in critical condition at Medical University of South Carolina after he was bitten...
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Sevilla’s Young Puerta Dies at Hospital
Sevilla FC midfielder Antonio Puerta died in hospital today. The 22-year-old was struck by heart...
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Federer Chases 50th Trophy After “Classic Match” With Hewitt
Roger Federer managed to overcome Australian Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-1) after a...
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US Rising Football Star Freddy Adu Ready for Move to Portugal
The rising star of US national football team Freddy Adu is ready to make the big step to a titled...
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French GP: Kubica To Race Again, Hamilton Looking For Third Win
Polish Formula One driver Robert Kubica is fit to race in
this weekend's French Grand Prix, FIA...
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FIA: No Race for Kubica in Indianapolis
FIA didn’t approve the return of BMW Sauber driver Robert
Kubica in US Grand Prix race. Last week...
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Robert Kubica Is Ready Race In Indianapolis
Despite he was involved in one of the worst crashes from the
recent history of Formula One, Robert...
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Rafael Nadal Ready To Play After Medical Check
Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal is ready to extend his
73-match clay-court win streak on...
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World
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Japan triples medical staff at airports to check for flu
Tokyo - Japanese airports increased the number of quarantine officials Tuesday as...
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Swine flu cases rise to over 50 in EU
Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Mexico shuts schools nationwide as flu deaths reach 149
Mexico City - Mexico on Monday closed schools and universities until May 6 and limited commercial...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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EU calls emergency talks as Spain confirms swine flu case
Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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Argentina considers doping tests on polo horses after deaths
Buenos Aires (dpa) - The deaths in the United States of 21 polo horses belonging to the Venezuelan...
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China announces human rights action plan
Beijing - China has published an action plan to protect the rights of its citizens, including...
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Thai army moves in, clashes with anti-government protestors
Bangkok - Thai soldiers fired at protestors driving buses at them and used tear...
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Israel places police on high alert for Passover festival
Jerusalem - Israel was placing its police forces on high alert Wednesday for the Passover festival...
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Search for Italy quake survivors becomes priority
L'Aquila, Italy - Rescue workers, paramedics and soldiers spread out across central Italy...
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French bishop sparks new row on condoms and AIDS
Paris - The bishop of the French city of Orleans, Monsignor Andre Fort, rekindled a row...
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Beijing upholds two-year sentence for rights activist
Beijing - A Beijing court has upheld a two-year prison sentence for a...
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Self-confessed incest murderer's verdict due Thursday
Berlin - The third day in the trial of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian father in court for imprisoning...
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Austrian incest father pleads "not guilty" to murder
St Poelten, Austria - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian father who achieved worldwide notoriety in 2008 on...
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Trial of incest father Josef Fritzl opens in Austria
St Poelten, Austria - The trial of incest father Josef Fritzl began Monday in the Austrian...
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Campus violence leaves one killed, many injured in Bangladesh
Dhaka - Authorities ordered the indefinite closure Friday of three educational institutions in the...
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Octuplets Mom Received Disability Payments
Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets last month, was apparently injured in...
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Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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CDC Probing Salmonella Outbreak In The United States
Just months after salmonella Saintpaul caused more than 1,400 illnesses all over the United...
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UN Security Council Urges Immediate Ceasefire
New York - The UN Security Council late Thursday urged Israel and Hamas to immediately end the Gaza...
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Not-so-cuddly panda mauls third Beijing zoo intruder
Beijing - A giant panda at Beijing Zoo has mauled a third intruder who climbed into its enclosure,...
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Film Studio Unveils Plans For Berlin's Tempelhof Airport
Berlin - Berlin's recently closed Tempelhof airport could become the new home for an historic...
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Hewitt Keeps Australia In Contention With Fighting Comeback Win
Perth, Australia - Lleyton Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip...
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Israeli tanks, troops continue push into Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv/Gaza - Israeli troops pushed further into the Gaza Strip Sunday morning, battling...
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London's Tube sees first birth since 1924
London- The days before Christmas saw the first childbirth in London's subway system since 1924,...
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Israel Rejects Calls For Truce, Gaza Toll Nears 370
Gaza/Tel Aviv - Israel rejected calls by the United Nations and European Union for an...
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Cuban Revolution Survives 50 Years Despite Changing World
Havana - Collapsed political systems, presidents who came and went, wars and attacks, broken...
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Lagoons, Rivers And Mennonites Separate Belize And Mexico
Chetumal, Quintana Roo - The vast lagoons between Bacalar on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the...
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Cholera Epidemic In Zimbabwe Passes 1,000 Death Toll
Cholera is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium...
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People
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Jay Leno Released from Hospital
Talk show host Jay Leno has been released from hospital. He staid overnight after yesterday he was...
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US octo-mother has TV reality show deal on horizon
Lost Angeles - Nadya Suleman, the US single mother of 14 children including recently-born...
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Robin Williams recovering after surgery
Los Angeles - Funny man Robin Williams was said to be recovering well Monday from heart surgery and...
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Actress Natasha Richardson buried in New York
New York - Actress Natasha Richardson was buried Sunday at a small funeral service of family...
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Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged with suppling drugs
Los Angeles - Anna Nicole Smith's attorney and boyfriend as well as two doctors...
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Ed McMahon Is Currently in Intensive Care
Ed McMahon, the longtime helper of Johnny Carson on the popular “The Tonight Show,” has...
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Ed McMahon Hospitalized For A Number Of Weeks
Ed McMahon’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, says the 85-year-old former "Tonight Show"...
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David Beckham To Share A Villa With George Clooney?
Who knew George Clooney and David Beckham were BFFs?
Apparently, they’re not exactly that...
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Nadya Suleman Rejects $1 Million Porn Flick Offer
Well, I bet you did not expect this.
Octomom Nadya Suleman has rejected $1 million, as...
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Octomom Scared Hostpital Won’t Release Her Babies to Her
Talking to TV host “Dr. Phil” McGraw on Tuesday, Nadya Suleman revealed that her...
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Potential Octodad Insists On DNA Testing
The man who appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday saying he might be...
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Police Is Investigating Photo Leak that Shows Bruised Rihanna
The Los Angeles Police Department launched an internal investigation late on Thursday with regard...
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Taxpayers Angry With Octuplets Mom, Death Threats Under Investigation
Police said they launched an investigation into a series of death threats against the most...
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“Grey’s Anatomy” Departures: Katherine Heigl, T.R. Knight
Cast departures rumors have been swirling around medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy”...
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Rihanna Cooperating with LAPD in Brown Investigation
Rihanna is said to be cooperating with the Los Angeles Police Department in the investigation...
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Wrigley Suspends Chris Brown Ad Following Attack Allegations
Chewing gum producer Wrigley suspended on Monday an ad featuring singer Chris Brown following the...
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Usher’s Wife Tameka Recovering After Plastic Surgery Scare
After the sudden death of Kanye West’s mother due to complications from plastic surgery,...
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Lil Wayne Dropped Addictions
During a recent Grammys Special interview with NBC, Lil Wayne openly talked about his...
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Jamie Spears Gets Restraining Orders for His Daughter
According to court documents filed on Friday, Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears has obtained new...
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Heath Ledger’s Life Insurance Case Wraps Up
The lawsuit involving Heath Ledger’s $10 million life insurance policy is close to an end...
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Heath Ledger’s Parents Proud by Posthumous Oscar Nomination
Heath Ledger was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, for the extraordinary...
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Kelly Osbourne – Back to Rehab
Kelly Osbourne reportedly checked into Oregon's Hazelden Alcohol and Drug rehabilitation center...
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Is George Clooney Coming Back to ER?
“ER” is the television show which pushed George Clooney to become one of...
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Clooney Returns as the Sexy Dr. Doug Ross
For “ER’s” final series, George Clooney agreed to return on the set along with...
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Biggie’s Neighborhood Has Changed
While Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Antonique Smith and Derek Luke shoot the scenes for the...
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Mariska Hargitay Has Pneumotorax
Mariska Hargitay is an American actress you are certainly familiar with – or at least you...
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Howie Mandel Hospitalized For Irregular Heartbeat
You probably know Howie Mandel as one of Canada’s most successful stand-up comedians. In...
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Howie Mandel Hospitalized
Stand-up comedian Howie Mandel was rushed to Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital on Monday night...
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Announcing the Winners: The People's Choice Awards
"The Dark Knight" accepted every trophy it was nominated for at the 35th annual...
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Welcome Another Baby Girl
Ben Affleck's spokesman, Shawn Sachs, and Jennifer Garner's spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik,...
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Health
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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Germany Reports 1st Swine Flu Case
Authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday confirmed the country's first...
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Novartis says its new oral MS drug prevents relapses
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Wednesday that 80 to 83 per cent of patients in a year-long...
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Fish oil no help to heart patients after all, German researchers say
Hamburg, Germany - Contrary to conventional wisdom, fish oil supplements are not particularly...
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Fish Oil Supplements No Help for Cardiac Patients
Contrary to conventional wisdom, fish oil supplements are not particularly helpful to cardiac...
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Statins May Reduce Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer
According to new studies presented at the American Urological Association’s annual meeting...
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FDA Makes Plan B Available for 17-Year-Olds without Prescription
The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it will allow 17-year-olds to get the...
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Psoriasis May Lead to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
A new study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Dermatology concludes that...
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Parents Have One More Reason To Worry About: Video Gaming
A study by the National Institute on Media and the Family and Iowa State University concludes that...
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Meth Exposure during Pregnancy Predisposes Kids to Abnormal Brain Development
Methamphetamine use during pregnancy may cause abnormal brain development in children, according to...
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Quest Agrees to Pay $302 M to Settle ‘Misbranding’ Case
Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay $302 million to settle charges that one of its business units...
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FDA Asks Coast IRB to Stop Review New Studies Due to Violations
The Food and Drug Administration sent Tuesday a formal warning letter to Coast Independent Review...
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Osteoporosis Drug Effective in Healing Bone Fractures
People suffering from devastating bone fractures won’t have to go through so much pain or...
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Severe Hypoglycemia May Increase Risk for Dementia in Diabetes Patients
Older people suffering from diabetes are more likely to be diagnosed with dementia when they...
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Stem Cell Transplant Effective in Type 1 Diabetes
People suffering from type 1 diabetes may soon not need to inject themselves on daily basis in...
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Black Patients Less Likely to Get Appropriate Care for Lung Cancer
Racial disparities are still present in the American medical system when it comes to lung cancer....
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Do You Know What Diet To Follow?
Following a diet is not easy, especially if you choose it on your own. Why? Simply: because people...
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Heart Disease Patients Going Through Depression At Risk Of Heart Failure
Heart disease patients going through depression are at greater risk for heart failure, according to...
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New Technique to Detect Cancer May Soon Be Available
New research in the online issue of the journal Nature Medicine suggests that a new technique to...
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Women Fertility May One Day Be Restored through Stem Cell Treatment
Reporting in the journal Nature Cell Biology, Chinese scientists suggest that women may one day be...
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Immunotherapy against pollen allergy can help prevent asthma
Hamburg, Germany - Spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere - and with it, a time of...
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Drinking coffee could lower stroke risk for women
Boston/Berlin - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke,...
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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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Shriners Hospitals May Close a Quarter of Their Facilities
Shriners Hospitals for Children is considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations...
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Donda West Surgeon Surrenders His Medical License
Dr. Jan Adams, the controversial Los Angeles plastic surgeon who operated on rapper Kanye...
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FDA Wants to Review Older Medical Devices
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday required manufacturers of 25 types of medical devices...
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Acid Reflux Drugs Do Not Improve Asthma
A new study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treating...
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Brown Fat May Help People Fight Obesity
How many times have you heard your friends complaining of being fat? Or how many times you wished...
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Supervised Exercise Benefits Heart Failure Patients
Supervised exercise appears to be both safe and healthy for people with heart failure, according to...
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