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PEPFAR Program Decreased AIDS-Related Deaths in Africa
According to a study published online Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine, the...
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WHO earmarks 15 billion dollars to curb drug-resistant TB by 2015
Beijing - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to...
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China launches partnership to fight drug-resistant TB
Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates...
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FDA Panel Backs Sanofi-Aventis’ Heart Drug for Approval
A panel of cardiology experts recommended Wednesday that Sanofi-Aventis experimental drug Multaq...
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Optimism Helps You Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Pessimists are now given one more reason to turn the page and be more optimistic, according to...
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Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB
Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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Air-ambulance Pilot – A Dangerous Job
According to experts on this kind of problems, air-ambulance helicopters have the worst fatal crash...
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Gates Optimistic About Malaria Vaccine and Eradication Of The Disease
Malaria is considered by many a thing of the past, or perhaps a disease restricted to the poor...
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HealthGrades: Top-Rated Hospitals Have 27 Percent Lower Death Rate
Another report, this time coming from HealthGrades, comes to the rescue of people looking for the...
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Infant Suffocation Death Rates Increase Fourth Times In 20 Years
A new study in the journal Pediatrics reveals that infant mortality rates caused by accidental...
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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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Smoking Death Rates – The Highest in Kentucky and West Virginia
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in its journal Morbidity and...
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California Hospitals’ Death Rates Vary Widely
According to a recent study that looked at mortality rates for California hospitals between 2006...
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Reduced Air Pollution Adds Years To Your Life
Pollution has always been thought to reduce survival due to its noxious effects on people’s...
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Wyeth Vaccine Helped Slash Pneumococcal Meningitis Rates
Pneumococcal meningitis rates have declined substantially since a new vaccine was introduced in...
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Sleep More! You'll Be Healthier
A new study has revealed that if one person gets less than seven hours of sleep a night, it's three...
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Health Groups Dissatisfied with U.S. Tobacco Control Policies
The annual report on U.S. tobacco control efforts released by the American Lung Association gave...
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Levels of Two Proteins Help Predict Ovarian Cancer Survival
A woman’s chance of surviving ovarian cancer may be linked to levels of two proteins, US...
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Heart Attack And Stroke Death Rates Have Decreased
The American Heart Association has reasons to be proud as it can achieve its goal of decreasing...
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How Much Effective Are Colonoscopies at Preventing Death from Colorectal Cancer?
A new study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopy
in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC)...
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Deaths Caused By Heart Attacks, Strokes Decline But For How Long?
Deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes have declined by about 30 percent since 1999 most...
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Racial Gap in Colorectal Cancer Deaths is Widening, New Research Shows
Colorectal cancer deaths have fallen in the
United States
this decade, but the racial gap in...
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Glaxo Malaria Vaccine Proves Successful in Early Tests
Researchers have been trying for years to develop a vaccine for malaria, the deadly, mosquito-borne...
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Measles Deaths Declined, Global Authorities Say
The global authorities released a report on Thursday announcing that the deaths caused by measles...
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State Health Rankings – Louisiana Last, Vermont First
The health of Americans has recently been under close scrutiny in a study that analyzed health...
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‘America’s Health Rankings 2008’- Vermont Is Healthiest State
A comparison of state rakings from 2007 to 2008 released
Wednesday by the United Health Foundation...
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Texans Face Growing Health Risks
Because of the continuously failing health care system in the United States, health risks are...
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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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Quit Smoking to Prevent Cancer! Lung Cancer Incidence Higher in Smokers
There are some easy steps Americans can do in order to prevent cancer: avoid smoking, whether it be...
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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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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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Justice Ginsburg Fights Terrible Disease
Pancreatic cancer, the terrible disease that kneeled actor Patrick Swayze last year, has recently...
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Higher Altitude Improves the Effects of Dialysis
Dialysis patients who live at higher altitude have more chances to survive for a longer...
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Study: Forests in Western U.S. and Canada Are Dying
More and more trees in Western U.S. and Canada forest are dying as a consequence of the warming of...
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Sleeping 7 Hours Or More Protects You From Common Cold
A new study suggests the connection between lack of sleep and common cold is stronger than...
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Taiwan Bans Indoor Smoking
Taiwan on Sunday announced the decision to ban indoor smoking, becoming the 17th state in the...
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Zoos Detrimental to Elephants from the Wild
Researchers and conservationists who have
compared, in a premiere study, the behaviour of captive...
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Zoo Conditions Not So Great For Elephants
Seeing elephants at the zoo might be an incredible
experience for many, but knowing that their...
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Vermont Ranked Healthiest State, Louisiana Least Healthy
Health continues to be an important issue for the United States,
as recent studies have shown that...
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Quit Smoking To Prevent Cancer! Lung Cancer Incidence Higher In Smokers
There are some easy steps Americans can do in order to prevent cancer: avoid smoking, whether it be...
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Report: US Cancer Cases, Deaths Down For First Time In A Decade
For the first time in ten years, the number of men and women
in the US developing and
dying from...
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African-Americans No Longer Underprivileged When It Comes To Liver Transplants
Thanks to a new scoring system, patients with the greatest
need will be the ones to most benefit...
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CDC’s Report Finds Food Allergies In US Kids Are On The Rise
A new report released by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics shows that
the number of...
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1 in 4 US Teen Girls Received Merck’s HPV Vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that only 25 percent of...
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Government: Get Fit To Avoid Health Risks!
Whether you’re young or old, you need to keep moving! No
matter you’re doing brisk walks, running...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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AHA Recommends Screening For Depression In All Heart Patients
People suffering from some form of heart disease appear to
be at a higher risk of depression as...
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Flu Shots while Pregnant Cut Risk of Infections for You and Your Baby
Mothers-to-be should consider getting a flu shot while
pregnant in order to protect their newborns...
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Fish-Oil Can Reduce Heart-Failure Mortality Rate
A study conducted by a team of 357 Italian cardiology
centers has found that omega-3...
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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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2008 Kids Count Data Book
The situation of children in the United States shows slight signs of
improvement from 2000 to...
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Giant Networks ABC, CBS and NBC Join Hands in Cancer Initiative
It
is always great news when you hear that the fight against cancer brings more
people together,...
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Death Gap Expands between Educated and Less Educated in the US
Being educated could boost your chances to live longer new
research suggests.
American...
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Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US
Americans’ life expectancy is stagnating or falling as
obesity, high blood pressure, different...
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American Diabetes Risk Test Available Online - Get Tested!
March 25th will mark the 20th anniversary of the American
Diabetes Association (ADA) Diabetes...
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Rock Stars Rock, But They Die Younger: Study
You would not believe it by looking at the Rolling Stones however, a new study says rock stars are...
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