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WHO changes virus name, 257 confirmed cases
Geneva - The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of...
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WHO: 154 Confirmed Cases of Swine Flu
The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of swine...
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Breastfeeding Found to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
Women who breastfeed their babies appear to have a reduced risk of developing heart disease when...
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Genetic Variants Tied to Increased Risk of Ischemic Stroke
Two genetic variants appear to significantly increase the risk of ischemic stroke, US researchers...
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Supervised Exercise Benefits Heart Failure Patients
Supervised exercise appears to be both safe and healthy for people with heart failure, according to...
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy Might Help Smokers Quit After All
People who are not ready to quit smoking right now, but they want to reduce their smoking are twice...
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FDA Warns 9 Companies for Making Unapproved Narcotics
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned nine manufacturers for illegally making powerful...
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Ventricular Reconstruction No Better Than Bypass Alone in Heart Failure
Ventricular reconstruction to improve symptoms in people with heart failure, a procedure often...
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Cholesterol Drug Crestor Reduces Risk of Vein Clots As Well
Besides reducing the incidence of heart attacks and stroke, AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug...
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New Device Shows Promise in Treating Atrial Fibrillation
A new device implanted in the heart to stop blood clots from triggering strokes (from the rhythm...
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Lowering Blood Glucose Levels in Critically Ill Patients Might Kill Them
A new study reported online March 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that lowering...
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Anesthesia in Infancy Might Lead to Learning Disabilities Later
Mayo Clinic researchers say that if children have anesthesia 2 or more times before the age of 3,...
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Study Blames 10 Genes for Sudden Cardiac Death
Scientists at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine together with an...
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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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Early Detection of a Second Breast Cancer Doubles Survival Chances
Early detection of a second breast cancer in a woman can cut her risk of dying in half, researchers...
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Optimism Is the Best Medicine Ever!
A study of 100,000 women ages 50 and over since 1994, presented at the American Psychosomatic...
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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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Mixing Plavix with Stomach Medicines Raises Risk of Death By 25 Percent
Mixing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s anti-clotting Plavix, also known as clopidrogel, with...
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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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Flu Makes Another Victim
Although the flu season is coming to an end, the infection seems to be more dangerous than ever....
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You’d Better Learn to Control Your Anger! It Can Cause Cardiac Arrest
A new study in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology concludes...
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FDA: Three Deaths from PML Tied to Genentech Psoriasis Drug Raptiva
Three patients taking Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva are thought to have died of...
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10-Year-Old Girl Dies of Flu in Long Island
A Levittown elementary school student died over the weekend apparently because influenza,...
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Justice Ginsburg to Recover at Home after Cancer Surgery
The US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left hospital Friday, a week after she underwent...
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Your Waist May Offer A Picture Of Your Migraine Risk
A new study shows that overweight people are more likely to have migraines than those who are...
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Bone Drug Zometa May Help Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that by adding Zometa...
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Sanofi-Aventis Waits for FDA’s Decision on Multaq (Dronedarone) Heart Drug
The FDA is expected to take a decision regarding an experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis which is...
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Control Your Cardiovascular Risk Factors for a Healthy Heart!
Protecting your heart is easier than you might think! High blood pressure, high cholesterol...
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Pancreatic Cancer, a Rare and Deadly Condition, Experts Say
Few people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but about 95 percent of those who suffer from...
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February Is the Month That Encourages Heart Health
February 6th was National Wear Red Day, also known as Go Red for Women Day, when people were asked...
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Two Genetic Variants Predispose People to Stroke
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that carrying certain genes might...
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Device Prevents Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Researchers present Saturday at the American College of Cardiology Conference in Orlando, Florida...
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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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Psoriasis Drug Raptiva Tied to PML Deaths
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva has...
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Your Waist May Offer a Picture of Your Migraine Risk
A new study shows that overweight people are more likely to have migraines than those who are...
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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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Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery
Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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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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Antipsychotics in Alzheimer’s Patients – Potentially Fatal After Extensive Use
First of all, Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease with no known cure. Except for...
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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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Independent Toy Companies Affected By New Regulations
After last year’s massive toy fiasco something had to be done to increase toy safety, as...
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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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Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Recurrence, Key Issues at the Breast Cancer Symposium
A hormone therapy for breast cancer can
reduce the chances of the disease spreading by a...
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Cancer To Become World’s Number One Killer By 2010
Cancer will become world’s number one killer by 2010, as the number of people in poorer countries...
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Montana Judge Rules Assisted Suicide Is Legal
Friday in a
Montana court, Judge Dorothy
McCarter ruled that doctor-assisted suicide was...
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China Promises to Fight AIDS Discrimination
Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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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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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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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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Racial Disparity Reduced, Sex Disparity Still Exist In Liver Transplant
A new system adopted in 2002 for allocating livers for transplantation seems to be working for...
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Blame Your Boss For Your Heart Attack!
Employees who say their bosses are inconsiderate and uncommunicative are more susceptible to heart...
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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance to Start a Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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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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Large Waist Equals Elevated Death Risk
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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Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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Shocking Preterm Birth Rate In The United States
The rate of premature birth in the United States has reached an alarming 12,7 percent, although the...
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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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Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well
Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to
reduce heart risk in people with...
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World
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EU calls emergency talks as Spain confirms swine flu case
Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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Italy earthquake toll at 294 as rescue efforts end
L'Aquila, Italy - Almost a week after a devastating earthquake hit central Italy, authorities on...
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Climber presumed dead on New Zealand peak, brother safe
Wellington - An Australian climber, missing after falling down a crevasse on Mount Cook in New...
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China Promises To Fight AIDS Discrimination
Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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Jury Unravels Sydney Model's Murder Mystery
Sydney - People wondering why it's taken 13 years to pin the murder of Sydney model Caroline Byrne...
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David Blaine’s Reputation Is Going Upside Down Because Of Criticism
Another stunt, another record, another battle with unsatisfied critics for the famous illusionist,...
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Exposure To Air Pollution Harms Patients With Coronary Artery Disease
Exposure to traffic fumes increases the
risk of heart attack, or strokes and potentially fatal...
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Texas Executes Mexican, Defies Orders From President Bush
Texas carried out the execution of a Mexican-born rapist and killer late Tuesday evening, defying...
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Ohio Inmate Claims He’s Too Fat to Be Put to Death
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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FDA Inspecting Jalapeños Shipments as Salmonella Victims Near 1000
Hoping to solve the mystery of the Salmonella, investigators are now inspecting the shipments of...
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Israeli Guard Kills Himself during Sarkozy's Departure Ceremony
Israeli police are investigating what seems to have been the suicide death of a policeman, who...
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Tomatoes-Related Salmonella Cases Rising in Texas
The number of people infected with salmonella in Texas has risen to 35 from 21 since Tuesday, the...
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CDC: US Faces Biggest Measles Outbreak in Seven Years
The U.S.
faces the biggest measles outbreak in seven years, the federal Centers for
Disease...
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Mexico Drug Gang Clashes Kill 17
It appears that seventeen Mexican drug gang members were killed next to the U.S. border on Saturday...
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Marine Fugitive Offered to Surrender in E-mail
A Marine fugitive hunted for three months for allegedly
killing his pregnant colleague after...
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Six Afghans Killed in U.S. Raid
U.S. military forces raided a village near Afghanistan’s
border with Pakistan Wednesday, killing...
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Violence Continues in Chad's Capital
On Sunday tanks were running on the streets of N'Djamena,
capital of Chad,
as the city turned...
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Justices to Rule Over The Lethal Injection Method
The Supreme Court is expected to
reach a decision on whether the lethal injection process used in...
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Benazir Bhutto Killed in Election Rally Attack in Rawalpindi
Today, more than 20 people were
killed and 60 were injured in a gunfire-and-bomb attack during an...
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Quake Leaves At Least Nine Dead in Indonesia
At least nine people lost their lives and dozens were injured when a magnitude-8.4 quake and two...
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Typhoon Fitow Strikes Japan, At Least One Dead
The powerful Typhoon Fitow caused the death of at least one person as it struck Tokyo on Friday and...
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British PM Brown Says Litvinenko Case Is Very Important
In his first news conference since he became Prime Minister,
Gordon Brown said it is very...
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Relations Between Russia and Britain Continue To Deteriorate
The “diplomatic war” Russia and Britain, started after the British
Foreign Secretary David...
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Russia Criticizes Expulsion Of Its Diplomats From UK
Russia heavily
criticized the British government’s decision to expel four Russian diplomats...
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Dengue Fever Cases Escalate In Asia
Mosquito-borne dengue fever raised the death toll to 44 in
the first four months of 2007 in...
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