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It’s Now Official: Tomatoes Are Salmonella Free
On Thursday, federal health officials finally lifted the 40
day-old warning with regard to...
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More than a Quarter of American Adults Are Obese, Study Says
The Centers for Disease Control has published a study according to which 1 in 4 American adults is...
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Tomatoes Cleared of Salmonella Outburst, Peppers Under Suspicion
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted Thursday its
warning on certain kinds of raw tomatoes...
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Environmental Protection Agency Warns Of Climate Change Toll On Health
The United States Environmental Protection Agency warned of the effects of climate change on our...
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AHA Releases First Guidelines for Strokes in Children
As strokes are growing more common among infants and children,
the American Heart Association on...
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Clinton Foundation- Drug Makers Deal Seeks to Lower Malaria Drug Price
Former US
president Bill Clinton has forged a deal with six pharmaceutical companies from
China...
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CDC Survey Shows US Obesity Rates Are on the Rise
Since mid-1970s, the prevalence of overweight and obesity
has increased sharply for the US
and...
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Tomato Warning Withdrawn, Peppers Still Probed
Although the source of salmonella outbreak in the US has not
been found yet, on Thursday, the Food...
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Report: Disease Prevention Pays Off Five to One
Trust for American Health, a nonprofit health advocacy group, found that disease prevention...
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Tobacco Companies Manipulate Menthol To Lure Teens Into Smoking
US
researchers warned on Wednesday that tobacco companies manipulate the amount of
menthol in...
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E. coli Outbreak Linked to Beef Spotted in Three Other States
The E. coli outbreak that sickened at least 41 people on Michigan and Ohio
has spawned...
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Drug Combo Improves Rheumatoid Arthritis
A new study has found that a combination of two drugs,
Enbrel and methotrexate, halts progression...
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Kids Head to Inactivity By Age 15, New Research Shows
As kids grow from pre-pubescence into teens, their rate of
physical activity starts declining...
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Physical Exercise Slows Down Alzheimer's Disease
Physical exercise appears to slow down the development of Alzheimer's disease. New research data,...
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FDA’s Handling of the Salmonella Outbreak Makes Local Producers Angry
The way the Food and Drugs Administration agency and the Centers of Disease Control are managing...
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NY Times Comes Out of Anthrax-Related Suit On Top
On Monday, a US appeals court reinforced the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by a former government...
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Exercise Could Delay Alzheimer’s Brain Shrinkage
As the number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease is going
to quadruple worldwide by 2050...
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Amgen’s Bone Drug Meets Endpoint In Phase III Trial
Biotech drug manufacturer Amgen Inc. announced on Monday
that its experimental drug denosumab...
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Global Warming Could Increase Kidney Stone Cases As Well
As the planet warms there will be more people suffering from
kidney stones most probably due to...
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USDA Breaks the Silence on Meat Recalls
Following the numerous requests it has received from Congress and various consumer groups, the U.S....
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Possible Autism-Related Breakthrough
The results of a recently completed study say that certain autism cases are caused by gene defects...
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After Crippling Tomato Business, Salmonella Hits Jalapeńo Pepper Imports
It seems that Salmonella has caused more damage in businesses than it did in people. During the...
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Governor Rod Blagojevich Pushes For Bill Covering Autism Costs
Governor Rod Blagojevich made use of his amendatory veto
power and rewrote a House bill requiring...
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“America’s Best Hospitals” for 2008
U.S. News & World Report comes to the aid of patients
all over the US revealing
its...
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New Salmonella Victims Reported
The number of people infected by the salmonella outbreak managed to reach 1,000. At this point...
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Smokers’ Influence on Nonsmokers Dropping
On Thursday, a new smoking-related government study was
released. As it turned out, good news can...
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Heart and Stroke Risk Due to Heavy Drinking Higher in Women
Women are four times more likely to die from cardiovascular problems
compared to men if drinking...
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Melanoma Cases Raise Considerably Among Younger Women
Researchers browsing through the cases of melanoma, the
deadliest form of skin cancer, found that...
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FDA Panel Says No To Black Box Warning On Epilepsy Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation to
add a “black box” warning to some 11...
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Middle Eastern Families Shed Light On Autism's Genetics
Harvard researchers looked at the genetic makeup of large Middle Eastern families in search for...
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Science
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Kids Head To Inactivity By Age 15, New Study Shows
As kids grow from pre-pubescence into teens, their rate of
physical activity starts declining...
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Study Links Global Warming To The Increase Of Kidney Stone Cases
As the planet warms there will be more people suffering from
kidney stones most probably due to...
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Famous Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey Passes Away
Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey, whose career spanned
more than seven worthy decades,...
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Melanoma Cases On The Rise Among Younger Women
Researchers browsing through the cases of melanoma, the
deadliest form of skin cancer, found that...
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US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure
A genetic research on more than 100 families prone to autism
by Harvard researchers shed new light...
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One Third Of Reef-Building Corals On The Verge Of Extinction
Marine biologists never get tired of warning about the
dangers human actions pose to one of the...
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Write Down Everything You Eat, A Method To Lose More Weight
People writing down what they eat every day lose on average
twice as much weight as those who...
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Half Of US’s Coral Reefs Heading Towards Extinction Because Of Us
For anyone who’s ever been near coral reefs, the necessity
to protect them is not a new story:...
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Mars Starts Journey Into The Mysteries Of Cocoa Genome
Mars, the giant chocolate maker, is planning on solving
humanity’s cocoa crisis (yes, there is...
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Study: Melanoma Cured 100% through Blood Cell Therapy
The results of a new study conducted by a research team at
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...
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White House Finally Comes Up With Climate Report
The Bush administration finally
concluded what we’ve been suspecting for some time now: that the...
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Monkeys Successfully Brain-Control Robotic Arm
Restoring motor functions to
paralyzed patients is more than a theory; it is an objective to be...
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Howard Hughes Institute Grants $600M to 56 Scientists
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded more than $600 million in research funding...
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Veterinarians Go All The Way To Save Baby Eagle’s Life
The one-month-old baby eagle from
the Norfolk Botanical Garden, who impressed people around the...
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Prolonged Exposure To Carbon Nanotubes May Increase Cancer Risk
Carbon nanotubes are as
promising as they are dangerous, scientists warned, associating the...
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Scientists Report A New Method To Create Human Antibodies
The U.S researchers have discovered a new technology to
identify and clone human antibodies...
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Scientists May Have Found Drug to Treat Alzheimer’s
A team of German scientists has devised a new drug to fight
the most common form of dementia -...
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Heart Attack Victims May Be Cured: Scientists Create Heart Cells
Scientists from three countries succeeded in turning human
embryonic stem cells into three types...
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PETA: $1 Million Prize For The First In Vitro Meat Producer
PETA is serious: the first
person to succeed in producing in vitro meat (in commercially...
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Scientists Map Worldwide Journey of Seasonal Flu
Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery of
where seasonal flu viruses originate and...
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Tart Cherries Are Good for the Heart…and Diabetes
Who would ever believe that such small cookies like tart
cherries could do so much for your...
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Bacteria – The Main Ingredient in Snowflakes, Scientists Say
One might rethink playing with snow or walking in the rain as
a new study by scientists from the...
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Birth Control Pills Save Women’s Lives
A new research study shows that
birth control pills can protect women against developing ovarian...
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The 1000 Genomes Project Aims To Map DNA Of 1000 people
A consortium, which includes Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
in Hinxton, England,
the Beijing...
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Anthropologist Say Humans Evolve More Rapidly
A new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
anthropologist John Hawks revelead that we...
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New Discovery Reveals Tuberculosis Is 500,000-Years-Old
A new discovery made by the scientists from The University
of Texas at Austin
revealed that...
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Scientists Have Created First Primate Cloned Embryos
Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University have created for the first time cloned...
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The World Community Grid to Support Cancer Research Project
The World Community Grid
represents a web of 795,000 computers than span all over the world....
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Salmonella Grown in Space is Several Times Deadlier
A study has found that Salmonella grown during the Atlantis space-shuttle mission STS-115 in 2006...
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Evidence: Indonesian "Hobbit" Not Diseased Human
After a three year long debate, it appears that those scientists claiming that "hobbit"...
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Business
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Alzheimer Cure Makes Wyeth Shares Rise
The two companies that have discovered bapineuzumab, a drug that is supposed to slow down the...
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Teva’s Azilect Drug Slows Down Parkinson Disease
Teva Pharmaceuticals Industry Ltd, an Israeli drug manufacturing company based in Tel Aviv, has...
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Avant Shares Soar on Release of Brain Cancer Vaccine
A newly released cancer vaccine which reportedly doubles the survival time of people with brain...
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Vytorin Sales Drop for Schering and Merck, Due to Ineffectiveness
Shares of Merck and Schering-Plough dropped greatly on
Monday, after a research revealed that the...
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Arena Pharmaceuticals’ Obesity Drug Proven Safe
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that its
experimental pill against obesity passed a...
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals to Receive $40 M Milestone Payment
Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., the biotechnology company that conducts research in various...
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Transition Therapeutics to Receive $5 Million Payment from Elan
Transition Therapeutics Inc announced on Monday it will receive a $5 million landmark payment from...
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Philips to Acquire Respironics for $ 5,1B
Royal Philips Electronics NV, one of the largest electronics companies in the world and the biggest...
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Eisai Closes $3.9 Billion Deal with MGI Pharma
The Japanese drug company Eisai Co. announced on Monday the acquisition of MGI Pharma Inc. (whose...
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Merck Offers 4.85 Billion Dollars To Settle Vioxx Cases
The US
drug maker Merck & Co announced on Friday it will pay 4,85 billion dollars
to settle...
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Topps Recalls 21.7M Pounds of Ground Beef
Topps Meat Company LLC has announced on Saturday it expanded its ground beef meat recall from...
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Metz Fresh Issues Voluntary Spinach Recall, No People Infected
Metz Fresh, LLC announced it found traces of Salmonella bacteria in its spinach bags and is...
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Spinach Recall Due to Salmonella Threat
More than 68,000 pounds of bagged spinach are to be withdrawn from market by a Monterey County...
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Medtronic Buys Kyphon for $3.9 Billion
The medical company Medtronic announced it will acquire the
device maker Kyphon in a transaction...
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People
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Bush Press Secretary, Legendary Tony Snow, Died of Colon Cancer
Tony Snow, the legendary journalist who, despite his criticism of the Bush administration, was...
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Doctor Who Operated on Donda West Arrested Again
Dr. Jan Adams, the controversial Los Angeles plastic surgeon who operated on rapper Kanye...
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Mitch Winehouse Says Amy Could Recover Completely
According to the BBC News, Mr. Mitch Winehouse, Amy
Winehouse’s father, has declared that his...
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Brian Williams Gets Tim Russert’s Big Shoes To Fill
NBC News announced that Tim Russert’s spot as the moderator of Meet the Press will be filled by the...
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Russert Buried Surrounded by Impressive Gathering of Friends
Russert’s death has been a shock to all. He suffered a heart attack on Friday, while at work in the...
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Newsman Tim Russert Dies At 58
Veteran journalist Tim Russert, the host of “Meet the Press”
and Washington bureau chief of NBC,...
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Paul Newman Has Cancer, Friend Says
Paul Newman is alleged to have cancer in an advanced stage. An exclusive AP report claims that a...
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Patrick Swayze Doesn’t Let Cancer Stand In The Way Of His Career
Someone as multitalented as Patrick Swayze does not allow
anything to cut down his enthusiasm when...
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Tatum O'Neal Learns Life Lesson from Drug Arrest
One does not expect a person who has just been arrested for cocaine possession to offer words of...
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Patrick Swayze Opens Up About Cancer Battle
Former "Dirty Dancing" star, Patrick Swayze, who seems to be keeping positive since being...
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"Family Circus" Mom, Thelma Keane, Dies
Thelma Keane, the wife and inspiration of Bil Keane, who created on of the most famous comic...
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Patrick Swayze Makes Public Appearance at Lakers Game
Patrick Swayze made a brave decision Friday, offering himself up for scrutiny at a Los Angeles...
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Photojournalist Cornell Capa Dies at 90
Noted photojournalist Cornell Capa, the founder of the International Center of Photography, first...
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Barbra Streisand Donates $5 Million to Cardiac Center
The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles
said Wednesday that Barbra Streisand had donated...
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Cynthia Nixon Won Secret Battle with Cancer
Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon has recently revealed
that she was treated for breast...
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Legendary Actor Charlton Heston Dies at 84
The actor best known for his roles as Ben-Hur, Moses, or Michelangelo
died Saturday at his Beverly...
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Dr. McDreamy Opens Cancer Center
Actor Patrick Dempsey seems to like the medical field not only
in Grey’s Anatomy but also in real...
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Montel to End His Show after Nearly Two Decades
“The Montel Williams Show” will end its 17-year career on CBS at the end of this...
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Dr. Jan Adam's Practice "Horribly" Affected by Death of Donda Wes
Dr. Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon that operated on Kanye West’s mother before she died...
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