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Geneva - The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of...
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The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of swine...
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Women who breastfeed their babies appear to have a reduced risk of developing heart disease when...
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Two genetic variants appear to significantly increase the risk of ischemic stroke, US researchers...
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Supervised exercise appears to be both safe and healthy for people with heart failure, according to...
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People who are not ready to quit smoking right now, but they want to reduce their smoking are twice...
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned nine manufacturers for illegally making powerful...
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Ventricular reconstruction to improve symptoms in people with heart failure, a procedure often...
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Besides reducing the incidence of heart attacks and stroke, AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug...
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A new device implanted in the heart to stop blood clots from triggering strokes (from the rhythm...
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A new study reported online March 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that lowering...
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Mayo Clinic researchers say that if children have anesthesia 2 or more times before the age of 3,...
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Scientists at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine together with an...
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A panel of cardiology experts recommended Wednesday that Sanofi-Aventis experimental drug Multaq...
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Early detection of a second breast cancer in a woman can cut her risk of dying in half, researchers...
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A study of 100,000 women ages 50 and over since 1994, presented at the American Psychosomatic...
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Pessimists are now given one more reason to turn the page and be more optimistic, according to...
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Mixing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s anti-clotting Plavix, also known as clopidrogel, with...
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Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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Although the flu season is coming to an end, the infection seems to be more dangerous than ever....
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A new study in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology concludes...
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Three patients taking Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva are thought to have died of...
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A Levittown elementary school student died over the weekend apparently because influenza,...
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The US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left hospital Friday, a week after she underwent...
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A new study shows that overweight people are more likely to have migraines than those who are...
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A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that by adding Zometa...
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The FDA is expected to take a decision regarding an experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis which is...
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Protecting your heart is easier than you might think! High blood pressure, high cholesterol...
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Few people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but about 95 percent of those who suffer from...
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February 6th was National Wear Red Day, also known as Go Red for Women Day, when people were asked...
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Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state of California must reduce the number of inmates in...
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A recent study shows that trees on old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but...
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Researchers from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University in New York City...
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The US Food and Drug Administration is ordering companies that make epilepsy drugs to add warning...
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A US Food and Drug Administration panel decided on Thursday that two asthma drugs pose serious...
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Nogales, Mexico - The United States has stepped up efforts over the last two years to contain the...
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For many people trying to kick the noxious habit of smoking,
the Great American Smokeout is a...
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Statins have long been prescribed for people diagnosed with
high levels of bad cholesterol in...
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A Ku Klux Klan leader has been charged with
murder following the death of an Oklahoma
woman...
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The US Food and Drug Administration is ordering companies that make epilepsy drugs to add warning...
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The United States Food and Drug Administration issued Monday warnings to doctors and patients as...
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In an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning
America", Christina Applegate said she is...
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"Man on Wire” is a documentary on a Frenchman's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin towers....
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In a sad twist of events triggered by Heath Ledger's will, the actor's uncles have gone public with...
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It's been several months since Dennis Quaid's newborn twins almost died in a Los Angeles hospital...
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The woman who claims she was in the car that Lindsay Lohan allegedly chased right before she was...
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Yesterday, Dardenne Prairie’s
officials declared online harassment a crime, in a move that was...
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A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that carrying certain genes might...
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Researchers present Saturday at the American College of Cardiology Conference in Orlando, Florida...
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As rates for high blood pressure and implicitly for heart disease and stroke are dramatically...
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Having a healthy concept about life has always helped people to forget things that made them...
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva has...
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A new study shows that overweight people are more likely to have migraines than those who are...
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Pancreatic cancer, the terrible disease that kneeled actor Patrick Swayze last year, has recently...
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Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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A new study suggests the connection between lack of sleep and common cold is stronger than...
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Taiwan on Sunday announced the decision to ban indoor smoking, becoming the 17th state in the...
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First of all, Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease with no known cure. Except for...
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What did your New Year’s resolutions include except losing weight and reducing debts? If you...
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After last year’s massive toy fiasco something had to be done to increase toy safety, as...
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For people who have type 2 diabetes,
following a low-glycemic diet designed to keep blood sugar...
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A hormone therapy for breast cancer can
reduce the chances of the disease spreading by a...
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Cancer will become world’s number one killer by 2010, as the number of people in poorer countries...
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Friday in a
Montana court, Judge Dorothy
McCarter ruled that doctor-assisted suicide was...
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Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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There are some easy steps Americans can do in order to prevent cancer: avoid smoking, whether it be...
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A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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Thanks to a new scoring system, patients with the greatest
need will be the ones to most benefit...
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A new system adopted in 2002 for allocating livers for transplantation seems to be working for...
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Employees who say their bosses are inconsiderate and uncommunicative are more susceptible to heart...
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November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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Half of heart attacks and strokes happen
among apparently healthy men and women with normal or low...
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Your weight doesn’t bother you very much because you think
it’s ok and because it seems to be just...
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A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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The rate of premature birth in the United States has reached an alarming 12,7 percent, although the...
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A cholesterol-lowering statin drug administered to people who have normal cholesterol can cut their...
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Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to
reduce heart risk in people with...
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David Blaine is trying to get himself hurt once again for the pleasure of the crowds. The...
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Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington
decided to file a lawsuit against the...
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Actor Brad Garrett is the latest to have had just about enough of persistent photographers...
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The “Father Figure” pop star has to hire a private driver,
because he was banned from driving for...
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Tree mortality doubled in just 17 years in the Pacific Northwest and 25 years in California....
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The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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Good news for cancer fighters all around the world! Scientists at the University of Arkansas for...
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A woman’s chance of surviving ovarian cancer may be linked to levels of two proteins, US...
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Deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes have declined by about 30 percent since 1999 most...
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Men with locally advanced prostate cancer who undergo radiation plus long-term hormone treatment...
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Colorectal cancer deaths have fallen in the
United States
this decade, but the racial gap in...
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A study in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine may offer a...
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There have been a lot of reports lately about the apocalyptic
September 10, when an international...
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Marine biologists never get tired of warning about the
dangers human actions pose to one of the...
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Wild pink salmon in northwestern Canada are at high risk of death
and could soon disappear because...
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Researchers at John Hopkins University have found out that old medicines used to treat type 2...
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Indonesian health officials say the country’s efforts to contain the deadly H5N1 virus have...
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Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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L'Aquila, Italy - Almost a week after a devastating earthquake hit central Italy, authorities on...
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Wellington - An Australian climber, missing after falling down a crevasse on Mount Cook in New...
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Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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Sydney - People wondering why it's taken 13 years to pin the murder of Sydney model Caroline Byrne...
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Another stunt, another record, another battle with unsatisfied critics for the famous illusionist,...
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Exposure to traffic fumes increases the
risk of heart attack, or strokes and potentially fatal...
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Texas carried out the execution of a Mexican-born rapist and killer late Tuesday evening, defying...
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A death row inmate due to be executed on October 14 claims
he’s too fat to be put to death,...
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Hoping to solve the mystery of the Salmonella, investigators are now inspecting the shipments of...
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Israeli police are investigating what seems to have been the suicide death of a policeman, who...
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The number of people infected with salmonella in Texas has risen to 35 from 21 since Tuesday, the...
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The U.S.
faces the biggest measles outbreak in seven years, the federal Centers for
Disease...
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It appears that seventeen Mexican drug gang members were killed next to the U.S. border on Saturday...
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A Marine fugitive hunted for three months for allegedly
killing his pregnant colleague after...
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U.S. military forces raided a village near Afghanistan’s
border with Pakistan Wednesday, killing...
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On Sunday tanks were running on the streets of N'Djamena,
capital of Chad,
as the city turned...
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The Supreme Court is expected to
reach a decision on whether the lethal injection process used in...
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Today, more than 20 people were
killed and 60 were injured in a gunfire-and-bomb attack during an...
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At least nine people lost their lives and dozens were injured when a magnitude-8.4 quake and two...
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The powerful Typhoon Fitow caused the death of at least one person as it struck Tokyo on Friday and...
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In his first news conference since he became Prime Minister,
Gordon Brown said it is very...
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The “diplomatic war” Russia and Britain, started after the British
Foreign Secretary David...
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Russia heavily
criticized the British government’s decision to expel four Russian diplomats...
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Mosquito-borne dengue fever raised the death toll to 44 in
the first four months of 2007 in...
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