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Rogue Clinics Deceive Patients With Unsafe Stem Cell Therapies
Stem cell therapy has become one of the main points of
interest in medicine today, thanks to its...
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Media Exposure Is Bad For Kids’ Health, Study Says
Parents, have you ever wondered how exposure to media
sources impacts the physical health of your...
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More Efforts Are Needed to Combat Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Sufferers
The fact that there is a lot of inaccurate information about how HIV is transmitted also...
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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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Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
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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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Red Wine Helps Against Aging
It’s a well-known fact that drinking a glass of red wine for dinner has benefits for your health....
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WHO Plans HIV and AIDS Elimination
The World Health Organization has returned its attention to one of the most frightening viruses and...
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Obese Older Women Have an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer
A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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One Cause of Aging Found, Scientists Say Potentially Reversible
New research performed on mice offers insights into the
mechanism of aging, and perhaps with time...
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Cyberchondria Is No Joke
Neurotic self-diagnosis is usually common among med students. They study the diseases carefully and...
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Sleep and Exercise Help Prevent Cancer, Especially In Women
It’s a well known fact that getting a good night’s sleep, usually estimated to be of eight hours, a...
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Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua
A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
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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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Universal Health Coverage, In Discussion
As medicine, technology and science advance at a very fast rate, medical breakthroughs now happen...
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Early HIV Treatment Cuts Babies’ Death Risk
A study in the Nov. 20 issue of the New England Journal of
Medicine reveals that, for infants with...
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Promising Results in Adult Stem Cell Research : 1st Trachea Transplant Performed
Doctors at four European universities have
managed to perform the first trachea transplant...
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Censoring Fast-Food TV Ads Might Lower Childhood Obesity Rates
Banning fast-food advertising could lead to a decrease in
the number of overweight and obese...
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Pioneering Stem-Cell Surgery Performed
Through a cooperation of 4 European universities, physicians
have performed the world’s first...
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Taking Vitamins C and E Doesn’t Help Prevent Heart Diseases
So far, it was widely believed that vitamins C and E help reduce the risk of developing heart...
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A Healthy Lifestyle Lowers Your Chances Of Heart Conditions
Some physicians opt for more traditional methods of healing when being confronted with diseases and...
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Hospitals Ignore MRSA Infections
A very dangerous hospital infection is killing a shocking number of patients, according to a recent...
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Higher Death Risk For Overweight People
A new study at the German Institution of Human Nutrition shows that overweight people tend to have...
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Study: Big Waist Could Mean 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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Large Waist Doubles Premature Death Risk
A European study suggests that people with a large waist are almost twice
more prone to premature...
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Paying More For Alcohol May Actually Save Lives
It’s no secret that alcohol is no good for our health, as it
might increase our risk for liver...
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Update: Google Tool Tracks Flu Outbreaks Faster
Fever? Headache? Sore Throat? You might
find answers to all these symptoms through a new tool as...
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Leukemia and HIV Gone After Bone Marrow Transplant
Medical history was written recently, after a patient with both leukemia and HIV received a bone...
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Chronically Ill Americans Experience More Medical Errors
Chronically ill U.S. residents are more likely to forgo medical care on account of high costs or...
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U.S. Chronically Ill Patients More Likely to Be Subjected to Medical Errors
A recently carried out survey reached the conclusion that the United States patients are the...
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Science
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Obese Older Women Have An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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Harvard Scientists Unravel The Secret Of Aging
As we get older, our health becomes our worst enemy. What’s
the secret of living a longer healthy...
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HIV Treatment Is Most Efficient when Started Earlier, Study Says
US and Canadian researchers suggests that starting HIV
treatment earlier than currently...
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Rotateq Slows Down The Rotavirus In Non-Immunized Children
A vaccine against rotavirus, Rotateq, which causes diarrhea
and vomiting in thousands of children...
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Testicles an "ethical" source of stem cells, German scientists claim
Faced with strict German laws banning the use of human embryos, a team of German scientists came up...
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Internet genome scans are both popular and controversial in US
Washington - Some people who want their genome scanned are only worried about what their hair will...
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Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Green Fluorescent Protein
This year, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three
scientists that used a protein taken...
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Stem Cells From Germ Cells
Recent studies show that testicular germ cells resemble very much the much controversial embryonic...
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Update: Stem Cells Research Could Become Safer
Researchers took one more step toward so-called regenerative
medicine by developing a safer way of...
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Urban Civilizations Found By Scientists in Amazonian Forest
Using satellite imagery, scientists have discovered the
remains of once densely populated towns in...
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Large Human Trial Of HIV Vaccine Canceled By NIAID
The National Institutes of Health on Thursday canceled a US human trial
of a human...
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Scientists Revealed World's First Genome-Wide Spinal Cord Map
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has taken a groundbreaking step into deciphering the...
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Low-Carb Diet Is The Best Choice To Lower Cholesterol
If you really want to lose weight and decrease your
cholesterol level, you may try the...
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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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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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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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Scientists to Discuss Pharaoh Akhenaten’s Gender Mystery
After Pharaoh Akhenaten puzzled scientists for years, making
them wonder about his strangely...
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Albany Medical Prize Goes to Female Researchers
For the first time in its eight-year history, the Albany Medical Center Prize went to two female...
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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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Drug Research May Suffer Significantly Due to Biodiversity Loss
Biodiversity loss and species extinction may lead to losing new
medical treatments for cancer,...
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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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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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Stem cell breakthrough promises “ethical” bio-replacements
No need to worry about the ethical implications of stem-cell research anymore: American scientists...
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South Korean Researchers Cloned Fluorescent Cats
These days, it seems that science out wins art. Up to now artists could get their imagination free...
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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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Ian Wilmut, Dolly’s Creator, Abandons Human Embryos Use
Professor Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientists who led the
team that created Dolly the sheep ten...
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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 First Malaysian Astronaut Arrives At ISS
The Soyuz capsule TMA-11, carrying the Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor,
along...
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The Start Of An Era.50 Years From Sputnik Launch
Human kind’s space endeavor debuted in the Soviet Russia 50
years ago at the famous Baikonur...
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World
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When Bone Marrow Transplant Cures HIV
The medical world has welcomed the first case of HIV completely cured. Is that possible, some have...
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China: Rich Nations Should Help Developing Nations Fight Climate Change
Beijing - Richer, developed nations should lead the effort against climate change and help...
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UN renews call for more aid to the poor on World Food Day
New York - United Nations leaders on Thursday called on the international community to assist the...
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An Unknown Disease Takes its Toll on Three South African People
On Friday, the
World Health Organization (WHO), which is an United Nations health agency, has...
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Wear Pink For The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is
dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of...
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Drama continues over vote on US finance rescue
Washington - Congressional leaders on Thursday were confident that the House of Representatives...
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Smoking in Public Places Banned in India
New Delhi - India
on Thursday banned smoking in public places after a medical study warned...
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India gears up for ban on smoking in public places
New Delhi - An estimated 120 million smokers in India will have one more reason to try to kick...
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Amid Finance Crisis, UN Aid Summit Raises 16 Billion Dollars
New York - Despite a massive financial crisis afflicting rich countries, a one-day United Nations...
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Chinese Milk Products Banned in South Korea
South Korea
on Thursday banned the import of Chinese milk and milk powder products, blamed
for...
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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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Man Who Illegally Sold Body Parts For Implant Surgeries Pleads Guilty
Michael Mastromarino, 44, of Fort Lee, N.J, the ringleader of a national body parts scheme, pleaded...
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Monsoon floods affect 1.5 million people in India's Bihar state
New Delhi - Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have affected nearly 1.5...
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Anthrax-Related Case Leaves Many Loose Ends
The case involving Army scientist Bruce Ivins and his
alleged implication in 2001's...
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Main Suspect In the Anthrax Case Is Dead
The 2001 anthrax case is on the verge of being solved. The
Justice Department is getting ready to...
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US Delays the Delivery of AIDS Vaccine
On Thursday, federal researchers gave up on their plans to
carry out the large scale experimental...
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US Health Officials Expand Salmonella Probe to Other Products
With the number of salmonella infections reaching more than
850, federal health officials have...
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Isolated Tribes To Be Protected In Peru
Authorities in Peru announced they decided to protect the
“uncontacted” tribes in the Amazonian...
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Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Discovered in Brazil Rainforest
Brazil's National Indian Foundation announced the discovery
of a new Indian tribe in the western...
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Bush Signs Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was passed by
the majority in the House of...
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Myanmar Holds Referendum Despite Cyclone Disaster
Despite the huge devastation caused by Cyclone Nargys, Myanmar held a referendum on Saturday to...
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Saddam Feared Catching AIDS from Prison Guards
According to excerpts of Saddam Hussein’s prison writings, the dictator feared catching AIDS or...
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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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Deadly Toxin Ricin Found in LV Hotel Room; Further Test Results P
Police are investigating the
presence of deadly substance ricin in a hotel room at an Extended...
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Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR
The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
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Bush’s Visit to Africa to Focus on Health and Educational Systems
President Bush is set to begin
his African trip to countries like Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana...
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Congo’s War and Its Consequences Have Killed 5.4 Million
Despite the efforts of the world’s largest peacekeeping
force, billions of dollars in...
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NY City Councilman Proposes $1,000 Fine for Feeding Pigeons
New York Council Member Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat
proposed a $1,000 fine for feeding...
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