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Doctors Urge HIV Tests for All Patients Over 13
On the very same day the world was celebrating the World
AIDS Day, the American
College of...
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UN Report: Early HIV Diagnosis and Treatment Essential to Save Babies’ Lives
A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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New Canadian Campaign Promotes At Home Colorectal Cancer Tests
The latest cancer incidence report has found that survival rates among cancer sufferers are...
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At Home Colorectal Cancer Tests
Recently, a
new Canadian campaign has started to promote at home screening for
colorectal...
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Study: CT Scans - an Alternative to Angiography, but Questions Persist
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that newer CT scans that use...
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HIV Protection: Could Pills Work Wonders Against HIV?
New York /Bethesda, Maryland - Anti-HIV medicines have rescued tens of thousands or perhaps even...
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CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test
Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that even though Medicare, the United...
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Hospital Don’t Test For HIV Routinely
In 2006, the Federal Government strongly advised that all patients who visit emergency rooms and...
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CDC Advice For HIV Testing Still Not Followed In Many ERs
Back in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
called for virtually all patients...
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Crestor and Its Effects
The drug Crestor, e new comer designed to lower cholesterol, has also been proven to lower the risk...
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New Test to ID Heart Failure Patients in ER Proves Better in Trial
Researchers at the American Heart Association’s Scientific
Sessions 2008 presented on Tuesday a...
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A Simple Blood Test Can Spot People Who Are At Risk Of Heart Attack
According to the findings of a new study
presented at the meeting of the American Heart...
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A Study Finds New Ways of Detecting Heart Disease
A regular medical exam could soon contain a simple, low-cost blood test, which could help assess...
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Intel Launches Its Health-Monitoring Device, Health Guide PHS6000
Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in July this
year, Intel’s Health Guide...
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Statins Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes, May Benefit Healthy People Too
Heart attacks and strokes may be cut by
roughly 50 percent among patients who receive preventive...
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Experimental Drug “Lures” The Body Into Burning Off Fat
Couch potatoes all over the world, here’s your chance to
lose weight due to a “magic” pill, which...
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Study Shows Fibromyalgia Is a “Real Disease,” Related to Brain Dysfunction
According to a new brain scan study,
fibromyalgia may be related to a dysfunction of cerebral...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Dangerous For The Heart
Rheumatoid arthritis may be on the rise in women, according to research presented this week at the...
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Study Calls For Earlier AIDS Treatment
HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend,...
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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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Biden’s Medical Records Released, He Is In Good Health
Democratic US
vice president nominee Joe Biden appears to be in good health, according to...
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Heart Patients Don’t Get the Recommended Tests before Angioplasty
Less than half of all Americans who undergo
non-emergency artery-opening procedures for heart...
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Scientific Advances in Stem Cell Field: Yamanaka Finds New Method for Safer iPS Cells
The search for viable alternatives to replace
the embryonic stem cells that are derived from the...
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Update: LabCorp Doesn’t Have FDA’s Approval to Sell Ovarian Cancer Test
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
posted a warning letter on its Web site, saying that...
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Sales Of LabCorp’s Ovarian-Cancer Test Violate The Law
The Food and Drug Administration warned Burlington-based Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings...
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FDA Warns LabCorp Over Illegal Sales Of Ovarian Cancer Test
Laboratory Corporation of America, also known as LabCorp, was
sent a warning letter in which...
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Safer Test For Down Syndrome In Fetuses
Presently, pregnant women that are worried about their baby
suffering from Down syndrome have to...
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Colorectal Cancer Screenings Should Stop at Age 75, Government Task Force Recommends
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has
rejected the latest X-ray screening technology, called...
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Safer Prenatal Test To Detect Down Syndrome
Researchers found a safer method to diagnose Down’s syndrome and several other genetic disorders, a...
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New Discovery in Stem Cell Field Improves the Cell Reprogramming Technique
The results of a study conducted by researchers
at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard...
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People
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Heidi Montag’s Mom Gives Her Daughter’s Marriage Six Months
Heidi Montag’s mom is not at all satisfied with her new
son-in-law, as she considers her...
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No DUI Charge for Shia LaBeouf, Perhaps Suspended License
Shia LaBeouf’s late July arrest on suspicion of drunk
driving has come to a pretty decent...
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It Only Makes Sense To David Blaine
American illusionist David Blaine has come up with yet
another idea to test his endurance: this...
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Barron Hilton Pleads Guilty To DUI
Paris and Nicky Hilton's little bro, Barron Hilton, pleaded no contest to a DUI charge stemming...
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In Sister's Footsteps: Barron Hilton Charged with DUI
Paris Hilton’s little brother, Barron Hilton, has been officially charged with DUI,...
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Paris' Little Bro Gets His Own DUI
Barron Hilton, the younger brother of socialite Paris Hilton, is adding further “glory”...
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Kiefer Sutherland Completes Sentence, Is Released
Actor Kiefer Sutherland was released Monday morning from the California jail where he served his...
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TV Personality Gary Collins Released from Glendale Jail
Gary Collins was released from Glendale City Jail early Friday after he served 96 hours for drunken...
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Victim In Collins DUI Crash Dies
The 89-year-old driver of the car Gary Collins hit the night he got arrested for drunk driving in...
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‘24’ Star Kiefer Sutherland Starts Serving His 48 Days In Jail
Hollywood actor Kiefer Sutherland was sentenced to 48 days behind bars in connection with his...
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Vivica Fox Ordered To Get Booked For DUI
Former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Vivica A. Fox turned herself in to the LAPD on...
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Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland Arrested for DUI
Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland was arrested for DUI – ironically just a week after it...
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Orlando Bloom Crashes Car, Won't Be Charged
Elf and pirate Orlando Bloom is among the luckier celebrities involved in car crashes, as his own...
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Kiefer Sutherland Gets 48 Days Behind Bars
"24" star Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest on Tuesday to a misdemeanor drunk driving...
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Eddie Murphy Takes Paternity Test
The alleged father of Melanie Brown’s 2-month-old daughter, Eddie Murphy, has reportedly submitted...
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Sports
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Cycling, skiing fear more doping cases
Berlin - Suspected doping cases are being investigated in cycling and cross-country skiing, an...
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After Kohl Doping Case, Austrian Media Call for Stronger Controls
Vienna - Following reports that Austrian Tour de France star Bernhard Kohl had tested positive for...
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Schumacher to Be Investigated for Fraud
Stuttgart - German cyclist Stefan Schumacher will be investigated for fraud after failing a dope...
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AFLD: Schumacher Tests Positive at Tour de France
Hamburg - German rider Stefan Schumacher tested positive twice for third-generation EPO at the Tour...
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Cycling's Olympic future may be reconsidered over doping
Hamburg - Cycling's future at the Olympics may have to be reconsidered, International Olympic...
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McQuaid: Spaniards Are "Too Lenient In Their Approach To Doping"
Beijing - The head of cycling's ruling body, Pat McQuaid, accused Spain of being "too...
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Phelps gets second gold as records tumble
Four world records tumbled in a remarkable second day of Olympic swimming Monday as American...
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Jim Leyritz Kills Mother of Two in Car Accident
Jim Leyritz, the Yankees hero,
faces serious accusations after killing a 30-year-old woman in a...
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Barry Bonds to Make His First Court Appearance
Barry Bonds, on of America’s biggest sluggers, will be in a San Francisco court this morning to...
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MLB Working to Introduce Blood Test for HGH
Major League Baseball officials announced they want to introduce a blood test starting next season...
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Harrison Suspended For Substance Violation
New England Patriots Rodney Harrison was suspended without pay for the first four games of the...
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Astana Quits Tour de France After Vinokourov Tests Positive
Astana team announced today its drop out from the Tour de
France after their rider Alexandre...
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Specials
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Heidi Montag’s Mother Gives Marriage to Spencer 6 Months Tops
Heidi Montag’s mother doesn’t care much for her new son-in-law and she isn’t afraid to say it out...
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A New Treatment Could Prevent HIV
A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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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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Take Your Statins To Prevent Heart Attack!
Half of heart attacks and strokes happen
among apparently healthy men and women with normal or low...
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Crestor Can Detect Risks Of Heart Attack
A cholesterol-lowering statin drug administered to people who have normal cholesterol can cut their...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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“Red Wine” Drug Fights Against Obesity Regardless of Diet
Are scientists one step closer to finding the secret weapon in the fight against obesity and...
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HIV Scare at a St. Louis High School
HIV testing is being given to students at a
suburban St. Louis
high school. The high school in...
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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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The Nobel Prize Rekindles 25 Years Old Controversy
On Monday, the
Nobel committee awarded the famous prize to Dr. Luc Montagnier, a...
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Genetic Test Could ID Down Syndrome, Safer than Current Tests
Pregnant women may find out whether their baby is likely to
be born with Down syndrome or other...
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Another Cure for Cancer Approved by FDA
Eli Lilly and Co. announced on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of...
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Just 1 in 5 Men Screened for Prostate Cancer Last Year
Although the American Cancer Society strongly recommends
annual testing, starting with at the age...
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Squash That Mosquito! Its Bite Could Be Deadly
Who would have thought that such a little insect, the
mosquito, could turn into the most dangerous...
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Prostate Screening’s Efficiency In The Elderly Questioned
Prostate-cancer screening or the PSA test for men aged 75 or
older should be stopped because there...
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New HIV Cases Were Underestimated by 40 Percent, the CDC Announces
The Centers for Disease Control has announced that the new cases of HIV infections were...
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Booze Cop Considered a Hero, Restored Back to Full Duty
The 15-year veteran detective that was shot and wounded gunman Stephon Allston outside of a...
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Day-Lewis Dedicates SAG Award to "Unique" Heath Ledger
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis dedicated the Screen Actors Guild Award he received during Sunday’s...
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Tom Wolfe Takes New Book to New Publisher
The New Year has brought its first major change for novelist Tom Wolfe: the end of a 40-year-long...
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