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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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CDC Urges Vaccination against Hib
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged parents to have their children vaccinated...
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Radio Host Continues to Be Investigated for Drug Companies Ties
Dr. Fred Goodwin, a popular radio host of
the NPR program, “The Infinite Mind,” has reportedly...
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EPA Strengthens Air Quality Standards For Lead Emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday strengthened
the nation’s air quality...
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Overeating Causes “Vicious Cycle” Leading to Obesity
A recently-conducted study revealed that overeating causes the brain to go haywire. Eating like a...
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Controversial Autism Study Canceled over “Unethical” Reasons
The National Institute of Mental Health decided to give up
on its study of a therapy called...
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Ayurvedic Medicines Sold Online Contain High Levels of Toxic Metals
Ayurvedic medicines are frequently
contaminated with lead, mercury and arsenic, a new study found....
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Report: Parents, Other Adults Supplying Alcohol to Teens
A nationwide survey, by the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration carried out...
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No More Solitary Confinement for Nick Hogan
Nick Bollea, Hulk Hogan's son, who is currently serving a
sentence of 8 months in prison for a...
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Hulk Hogan’s Son Has a Hard Time in Jail, Wants Home
Nick Bollea, Hulk Hogan's son, who is currently serving a sentence of 8 months in prison for a...
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Jury Awards Family $22.6 M for Daughter Harmed during Birth
A woman from Cincinnati,
Ohio was awarded $22.6 million in
damages on Monday in a medical...
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Health Officials on Alert after CMU Student Dies of Meningitis
Health officials are trying to identify all persons who were
in close contact with the 26-year-old...
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Scientists Show How Scratching Relieves an Itch
Have you ever wondered why is it that scratching makes you feel better? Maybe you don’t...
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Brain Stimulator Approved for OCD Treatment
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Medtronic’s Reclaim Deep Brain...
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Bacterial Meningitis Kills Second Soldiers at Missouri Base
Bacterial meningitis made a second victim among soldiers stationed at the Army’s Fort...
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Meningitis Strikes the University of Pennsylvania: Three Students Hospitalized
Three University of Pennsylvania students have been hospitalized with meningitis, school officials...
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
A UK and Canadian team of researchers have managed to put forward evidence of a link...
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Insulin And Diabetes Drug Avandia May Prevent Alzheimer’s
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that...
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Strange Disease Leads to Warnings and Parents are Encouraged to Vaccinate their Children
Five cases of the infectious children's bacterial disease known as HiB, or Haemophilus influenza...
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Rise in Hib Cases in Minnesota Makes CDC Officials Urge Vaccination
Five children were infected in Minnesota with a bacterial infection known as Hib: Haemophilus...
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FDA Approves First Phase Of Stem Cells Treatment
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first clinical trial using human...
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Fifteen-Year-Old Dies From Bacterial Meningitis
Ashley Andreasen, a 15-year-old girl, died on Friday from bacterial meningitis, barely a...
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MS Drug 'May Cause Brain Infection'
A drug used to treat multiple sclerosis might make some patients vulnerable to brain...
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Eight People Hospitalized in Redwood City with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Eight people at a Redwood City home have been hospitalized in what authorities have called...
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FDA Is Trying to Reconsider Advice on Fish Consumption
The Food and Drug Administration has been reviewing the information according to witch pregnant...
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Report Calls For More Screening Of Brain Injury In Military Personnel
A report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine,
a government advisory group that studies...
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Radio Host Involved In Drug Company Commercial Interests
Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who for over a year has been leading an investigation...
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Vaccines Shortage For Hib May Lead To An Epidemic
Epidemics and pandemics are very hard to keep under control or be successfully quarantined. A...
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Doctors Should Be Alert During Hib Vaccine Shortage, CDC Says
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
Thursday urged doctors and health agencies to...
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Research Proves Gingko Biloba Is No Good
The widely used herbal supplement, Ginkgo biloba, does not appear to prevent the Alzheimer disease...
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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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Far Too Few People Recognize First Signs of Stroke
Dresden, Germany - Far too few people recognize the first signs of a stroke, experts from Dresden...
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Shaking a Crying Baby Might Cause Brain Damage
Cologne, Germany - A crying baby should never be shaken as this can cause severe brain damage or...
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Eating Fish Regularly May Prevent Kidney Damage In Diabetics
One of the most serious complications of diabetes is kidney
disease. British researchers have...
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Leukemia Drug Found To Stop MS
Recently, an outstanding discovery in the field of medicine and in the fight with multiple...
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EPA Sets New Standard On Lead Emissions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced yesterday the decision to change the federal...
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Vitamin B - Useless In Treating Alzheimer’s
Fighting Alzheimer’s is proving more difficult by the day,
as the merciless disease has become...
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Number of Stroke Patients Treated with Blood Clot Busters Could Double
German scientists speaking at the 6th World Stroke Congress being
held this week in Vienna said...
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Clot-Busting Stroke Drug To Help Patients
If you are a stroke sufferer you can take advantage of a clot-busting drug even if you take it...
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Compensation To Rise for Veterans with Brain Injuries
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Monday that
it will more than quadruple disability...
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Study Warns about Threatening Levels of Fire Retardants in Kids’ Blood
A study of chemical fire retardants in parents and their
children conducted by the Environmental...
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Scientists Map Cancer Genome
A team of U.S. researchers claimed it found new genetic mutations involved in glioblastoma, the...
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