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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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Coffee “Addicts” May Have Lower Risk of Stroke
Drinking two or more cups of coffee per day appears to reduce the risk for stroke among women,...
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Willem J. Kolff, ‘Father Of The Artificial Organ’ Dies
Dr. Willem J. Kolff, the man behind the first artificial kidney and several other devices that...
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Aspirin Found to Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
Long-term use of aspirin or other similar nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce the risk...
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Octuplets See The World At California Hospital
A California woman gave birth to the second set of live octuplets in the history of United States...
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Tom Cruise: It’s “Horrific” that Travoltas Lost Jett
As the private memorial service has been held in Florida for John Travolta’s 16-year-old son...
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John Travolta Did CPR to His Son, but in Vain
Actor John Travolta reportedly did everything he could to save his 16-year-old son’s life,...
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Quit Smoking Today!
What did your New Year’s resolutions include except losing weight and reducing debts? If you...
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Avoid Hangovers on New Year’s Party!
We’re just a few days away from the New Year’s Party and all the good things coming...
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Low-Glycemic Diet Keeps Diabetes under Control
For people who have type 2 diabetes,
following a low-glycemic diet designed to keep blood sugar...
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CBS Wins Week in Total Viewers, NBC Boosted by Football Game
Although CBS was again the most-watched network last week,
thus claiming its 11th consecutive...
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Fall-Born Babies More Likely to Develop Asthma
Babies who are born in autumn, four months before
the peak of winter virus season, have a higher...
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No Significant Difference between Genetic Testing, Traditional Methods in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
The results of genetic testing for Type 2
diabetes are not significantly better than an assessment...
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Patient Receives New Windpipe Made From Owen Stem Cells
Some European doctors have performed the first trachea transplant using a woman’s own stem cells...
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3,800 UTMB Workers to Lose Their Job
Some US
institutions have not been able to catch up with things after the Hurricane
Ike. One of...
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Magnetic Field Therapy Said To Help Cure Body's Ills
Munich - Magnetic fields, which are common in our everyday lives but cannot be felt, are also...
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More Migraines Equal Less Breast Cancer Risk?
Researchers from the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center
in Seattle have
good news for women...
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Hesitant about Sharing Your Genes? Personal Genome Project Needs Volunteers
Those who are hesitant about publicly
sharing any part of their genome data, including medical...
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The Beginning of Personal Genome Project: Positive and Negative Aspects
Harvard Medical School genetics professor
George Church, Harvard psychology professor Steven...
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Harvard's Personal Genome Project Set To Begin Soon
Harvard University’s Medical School is in preparations to
begin a research called the Personal...
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Angioplasty Overused in Heart Patients
Percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI is the clinical
name for angioplasty and cardiac...
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Vice-president Dick Cheney experiences Abnormal Heart Rhythm
Current vice-president Dick Cheney will receive treatment at George Washington University Hospital...
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Coffee and Breast Cancer, Risks and Benefits
Moderate caffeine consumption, found in
coffee and other caffeinated beverages, was not...
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AstraZeneca’s Seroquel XR Gets FDA Clearance for Bipolar Disorder
SEROQUEL XL, AstraZeneca Plc’s schizophrenia drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
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"Express" Is Not Your Usual Sporty Movie
A new sporty fairytale has just hit the theaters: Universal Picture’s “Express,” a story about the...
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How Does Gene Testing Influence Lifestyle Habits?
A 20-year, landmark study involving 10,000
participants, funded by a research group and three...
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US Surgeon General Issues 'Call to Action' to Cut DVT and PE Numbers
In an attempt to reduce the number of people dying from deep
vein thrombosis and...
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Undisputable King of Movie Trailers Don LaFontaine Dies
The Man with the Unmistakable Voice, Don LaFontaine, who
voiced movie trailers throughout a...
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Boys More Likely than Girls to Beat Asthma by Adolescence
A study looking at the differences in the disease in both sexes revealed that boys are more likely...
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Obesity Comes With Heart Risks But Not Necessarily
Hundreds of previous studies have showed that obesity comes
with a number or risks, such as heart...
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People
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Jett Travolta’s Death, Medically Unclear
The life and death of John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s son, Jett, is still a mystery for...
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Autopsy Completed on Jett Travolta
John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, died last week on Friday after he had suffered a...
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Michael Jackson, Too Ill For Court
Michael Jackson is the eternal King of Pop. Five oh his records were worldwide best-sellers, namely...
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Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66
Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
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David Blaine Is Alive And Well After 'Dive Of Death'
I believe it is safe to say magician/illusionist David Blaine landed on his feet with no apparent...
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Kelsey Grammer Says Aloha to Hospital
Kelsey Grammer, the actor well known for his leading role in "Frasier" and "Cheers", said aloha to...
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Christian Brando's Autopsy Not Edifying
An autopsy on the body of Christian Brando performed at the request of his estranged mother has...
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‘Jeopardy’ Host Alex Trebek Safely Out Of Hospital
The Emmy Award-winning game-show host will be spending the holidays with his family after being...
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Lindsay Lohan's Courthouse Luck
The Beverly Hills Courthouse proved to be lenient towards troubled youngster Lindsay Lohan today,...
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Famous Entertainer Merv Griffin Dies At 82
The famous inventor of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel
of Fortune", Merv Griffin, has...
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World
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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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Man Sporting Samurai Swords Shot at Scientology Building
A man wielding two samurai swords was shot and killed by a
security guard at the Church of...
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Thai court sentences deranged student stabber to four years
Bangkok - A Thai court on Thursday sentenced a woman with a history of mental disorders to eight...
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PG Project Makes Available The Personal Genome Of Volunteers
The genomes of 10 people, volunteers in the
Harvard Medical School’s
Personal Genome Project,...
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Ike death toll in US rises to 30, tens of thousands stranded
Houston - More than 1,000 rescue personnel Monday intensified their feverish search for survivors...
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Engineer blamed in deadly LA train crash with 25 dead
Los Angeles - The death toll from the worst train crash in southern California history mounted...
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Nebraska Beef In The Spotlight Once Again With Another Major Recall
One month after Nebraska Beef Ltd., one of the nation’s
largest meatpackers, was involved in a...
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20th Century Medicine Giant Michael DeBakey Dies At 99
Heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, whose revolutionary heart transplants
and coronary bypass surgical...
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Prosecutor Confirms That Brooke Bennett’s Death Was Homicide
According to Vermont’s
chief medical examiner, Brooke Bennett was killed. He ruled her death...
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Senator Byrd Is Hospitalized
Monday night, Sen. Robert C. Byrd was taken to hospital and
remained under observation as he was...
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Obama Can Take Pride in His Health
Following John McCain’s release of his medical record, amounting to more than one thousand pages,...
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Senator John McCain Is As Fit As Can Be
After Senator John McCain’s alleged health problems reached the spot light, his medical records...
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DNA Confirms Austrian Incest Case
DNA results were presented by Austrian authorities in the
extremely shocking and highly debated...
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73-Year-Old Austrian Accused Of Incest With Hostage Daughter
A 73-year-old Austrian has been arrested after being accused of an extremely disturbing wrongdoing....
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Bus Accident In Ecuador Leaves Five Victims
A statement was given yesterday by Britain’s Foreign Office
concerning a tragic bus crash...
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State Offers Settlement To Families Of The Va. Tech Victims
The state is offering a
settlement to the families of the Virginia Tech slaughter of...
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Pakistan Elects First Female Parliament Speaker in History
The Pakistani government elected on Wednesday the country’s
first female...
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Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR
The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
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$270 Million Won By One Ticket
The Grand Prize from
the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing was won by a single player.
Lottery...
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Ten People Injured In Fight At Juvenile Detention Center
Ten people from the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention
Center were rushed to the hospitals...
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Five Killed During L.A. House Standoff
The gunman who shot his relatives and two SWAT officers
during a standoff at a house in San...
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Child Molester Kenneth Parnell Dies in Prison at 76
Convicted Kenneth Eugene Parnell known for kidnapping Steven
Stayner in 1973 and for being the...
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Woman Walks Children on I-495, Murder-Suicide
A woman with a brief history of mental illness walked with her niece and nephew on Interstate 495...
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Richardson To Withdraw From Presidential Race
Democratic presidential
candidate Bill Richardson is expected to announce his withdrawal from the...
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Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office Ends Peacefully
The disturbed man who took over Hillary Clinton campaign
office in Rochester, New Hampshire, has...
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Two Hostages Released From Clinton Campaign Office
A man who took over Hillary Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire released
two hostages and a...
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High School Shooting in Finland: Seven Dead and Three Wounded
At least seven persons were killed and another three were wounded after a teenager opened fire in...
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Truck Crashes in India, At Least 85 Killed
A truck packed with Hindu and Muslim pilgrims crashed into a gorge in northwestern India late...
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Car Bombs Kill 220 People in Northwest Iraq
Coordinated attacks killed 220 Iraqis and injured at least 400 in a northwestern town late Tuesday,...
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US Vice President Dick Cheney Gets A New Heart Device
On Saturday US
Vice President Dick Cheney has underwent a small chirurgical procedure to
install...
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Health
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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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Google Health Expands Partnership with CVS Caremark
Rhode Island Company CVS Caremark Corp. said it has expanded its partnership with Google Health by...
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HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended
HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend...
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Zimbabwe Fights Worst Cholera Outbreak in Its History
Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in the history of the country with almost...
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Women Who Enjoy Coffee Have Lower Stroke Risk
Women who enjoy coffee on daily basis have a lower risk of stroke, according to a study to be...
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The Number of Kids in Need of Statins Lower than Expected
Fewer than 1 percent of American kids need cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to a new study...
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Physical Activity May Cut Colon Cancer Risk
Many studies have shown that physical activity helps the body get rid of extra pounds, thus...
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Multivitamins Are Not Associated with a Reduced Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Multivitamins failed in preventing cardiovascular disease or cancer in postmenopausal women,...
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Study Finds Heart Rate At Rest Very Important For Heart Disease Evolution
A study of postmenopausal women has released some interesting conclusions. It looks like a...
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Women’s Heart Rate May Predict Heart Attack
Women’s pulse may be a good predictor of their risk of heart attack later in life,...
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Hormone Therapy – Breast Cancer Link Once Again Confirmed
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms once again the link between hormone...
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Multiple Births – A Reason Of Concern Rather Than Joy
Thanks to fertility treatments, multiple births have become more common in the last few decades,...
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Octuplets Born for the Second Time in U.S. History
On Monday morning, a California woman gave birth to octuplets by Caesarean section in a hospital...
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Women Surviving Childhood Cancer Don’t Get Regular Mammograms
Chest radiation received during childhood may increase women’s odds of developing breast...
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Octuplets in California are “very well”
On Tuesday, a doctor at the hospital were the octuplets were born stated that the eight...
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Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder May Have Common Genetic Causes
A new study on the link between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia has found evidence that the...
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Vicks VapoRub Poses Risks To Children Under 2
Vicks VapoRub, a common cold remedy, may create respiratory problems in infants and small...
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Blood Donations Needed during the Winter Months
January is a difficult period for local blood centers to collect blood donations due to the...
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How To Avoid Hangovers On New Year’s Party
We’re just a few days away from the New Year’s Party and all the good things coming...
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Less Sleep Hardens Arteries, Leads to Heart Disease
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that not getting...
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Surgeon Acquitted of Speeding Death for Organs
San Luis Obispo County Superior Court on Thursday acquitted an Iranian-born transplant surgeon...
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Quit Smoking to Prevent Colon Cancer! Smoking Increases the Risk of Colorectal Cancer
Smoking increases the risk of getting colon
cancer by about 18 percent and the risk of dying from...
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Low-Glycemic Diet Controls Glucose Levels in Diabetes
People suffering from diabetes have to carefully choose their foods in order to prevent gaining...
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Hypertension Pill Combo Safer than Diuretics
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
notes that combination therapy with the...
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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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Exercise May Diminish Cancer Risk
Regular exercise can help sufferers in the fight against cancer, according to new research....
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UTMB Announces 3000 Layoffs Because of Damage Caused by Hurricane Ike
The University of Texas Medical
Branch will begin notifying 3,000 workers on
Tuesday that they...
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Hurricane Ike Causes Some 3,800 Layoffs at UTMB
The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, which was severely damaged by
Hurricane Ike...
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Leukemia and HIV Gone After Bone Marrow Transplant
Medical history was written recently, after a patient with both leukemia and HIV received a bone...
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Research Shows No Benefit from Vitamin D in Breast Cancer Prevention
A new study in the online edition of the Journal of the
National Cancer Institute adds to the...
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