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Swine flu tally is 2,384 cases in 24 countries: WHO
Geneva/Stockholm - The World Health Organization increased Friday the number of...
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WHO: 1,893 cases of swine flu, 31 deaths
Geneva - The number of laboratory confirmed cases of infections of the new influenza A(H1N1)...
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WHO reports 1,658 confirmed cases of swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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WHO reports 1,516 confirmed cases of new flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,516 cases of the...
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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Mexican health officials raise swine-flu deaths to 19
Mexico City - Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova have raised the number of confirmed...
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Japanese woman travelling from US tests positive for influenza
Tokyo - A Japanese woman who arrived at Tokyo's airport from Los Angeles tested...
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Swine flu infections in Britain rise to eight
London - The number of swine flu infections in Britain rose to eight Thursday, with two new cases...
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European pharma industry holds flu talks in Brussels
Brussels - Representatives of the European pharmaceutical industry Wednesday discussed their...
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Bleach Baths Help Children with Eczema
A new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics reveals that adding a small amount of...
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Swine Flu Outbreak - A Cause for "Concern," Obama Says
President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the United States,...
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Swine Flu Death Rate Slowing Down
Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said late Monday that number of people dying...
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WHO to Intensify Anti-Malaria Fight in Asia-Pacific
The World Health Organization (WHO) vowed on Friday to intensify the fight against malaria in...
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FDA Approves Simponi for Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved rheumatoid arthritis drug golimumab marketed...
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Seven Cases of Human Swine Flu Reported in the US
The number of people contracting swine flu is on the rise in the United States with the Centers for...
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Two Cases of Human Swine Flu Traced in California
Two kids in California got infected with swine flu in late March but they recovered, according to...
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Announce New HIV Drug Company
Britain’s biggest drugs company GlaxoSmithKline and US rival Pfizer announced Thursday...
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New Campaign against Malaria Launched
A new campaign against malaria was announced Friday in Norway by international health agency and...
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Harris Teeter Recalls Pistachios over Salmonella Concerns
North Carolina-based grocery food chain Harris Teeter announced over the weekend that it is...
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Sprout Recall in 11 US States over Listeria Concerns
Connecticut-based Amalgamated Produce Inc. announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily recalling...
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Tuberculosis Scare at Three Chicago-Area Hospitals
Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to...
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CDC: US Makes No Progress in Food Safety
A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that,...
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Chemical in Broccoli Fights H. Pylori Infection
Besides lowering the risk of cancer and coronary heart disease due to high levels of vitamin C and...
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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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Nearly 3,000 Urged to Get Tested for Hepatitis B in New Jersey
New Jersey officials are advising nearly 3,000 people to get blood tests after an outbreak of...
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HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended
HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend...
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Walgreen To Provide Free Care For Unemployed
Walgreen Co., the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and its Take Care Health Systems...
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Viral infections carry lingering heart risks
Exercise usually helps strengthen the heart but after a bout of flu or another viral...
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Circumcision Lowers Men’s Chance of Getting STDs
Many studies have shown that circumcision helps men prevent infection with HIV virus. Apparently...
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Specials
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Broccoli Might Reduce Your Stomach Cancer Risk
The summer is that time of the year when you can get advantage of everything that nature has to...
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Good News for Unemployed: Walgreens Offers Them Free Care
Have you lost you job recently? If you’re among “yes” people, then you have one...
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Bill Gates Launches Project to Help China Fight TB
Computer industry billionaire Bill Gates announced his intention to help the Chinese government...
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Male Circumcision May Prevent Two Common STDs
Male circumcision appears to offer more protection to men than previously estimated, according to...
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WHO: HIV Prevalence among the Elderly Very High
While public health campaigns remain largely focused on the young, the number of older people...
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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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The HIV/AIDS Issue Is As Present As Ever
The 9th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day took place on February 7, and just as before,...
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness DAY Is Almost Here
Saturday marks the annual National Back HIV/AIDS Awareness DAY, a day meant to encourage...
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Enoki Mushrooms Recalled Over Fear of Listeria Contamination
Phillips Mushroom Farms of Kennett Square, Pa., announced the decision to recall 3.5 ounce, 4...
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CDC Urges Vaccination against Hib
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged parents to have their children vaccinated...
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Despite Economic Distress, Bill Gates Donates Money For A Good Cause: Polio
In a time of economic distress, Bill Gates has donated through its foundation $255 million for...
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CDC Reports Rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Cases of sexually transmitted diseases are at all-time high in the United States, not...
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Merck’s Gardasil Denied Approval Once Again
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve Gardasil for women 27 to 45 for 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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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Remedy For Parkinson’s Patients?
Deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life in...
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Federal Ratings for Nursing Homes
According to a recent analysis of the government’s first ranking of nearly 16,000 nursing...
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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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Update: The Efficacy Of Hong Kong’s Bird Flu Vaccine Questioned
This week’s bird flu outbreak is the first
incident of this type on a Hong Kong farm
since 2003,...
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Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors
A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed
serious medical errors....
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Today Is Word AIDS Day: Do You Know Your HIV/AIDS Status? Get Tested!
The 1st of December is World AIDS Day. To honour the 20th
anniversary of the first World Aids Day...
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Monday Is World AIDS Day – Do Something About It!
More people than ever before are living with HIV worldwide and new infections continue. HIV is a...
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Doctors Told to Be Alert for Childhood Infections during Hib Vaccine Shortage
On Thursday, U.S. health officials urged doctors
to be more vigilant for suspected cases of...
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Fall-Born Babies More Likely to Develop Asthma
Babies who are born in autumn, four months before
the peak of winter virus season, have a higher...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Possibly Curing HIV
People suffering from the immunodeficiency virus may be soon
cured through a bone marrow...
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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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Diarrhea Bacteria, Quite Common in U.S. Hospitals, Survey Shows
As many as 13 out of every 1,000 hospital
patients are infected with Clostridium difficile,or
C....
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8 More Salmonella Cases Tied To Dry Pet Food
Eight more cases of people becoming infected with salmonella Schwarzengrund have been identified,...
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CDC: Merck’s Rotateq Lowered Cases of Rotavirus by 80 Percent since Approval
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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HIV Scare At The Normandy High School in St. Louis
Recently, the students at the Normandy High School in St. Louis have been confronting a situation...
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HIV Scare at a St. Louis High School
HIV testing is being given to students at a
suburban St. Louis
high school. The high school in...
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World
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WHO says no evidence virus was a lab creation
Geneva - There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created...
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Mexico's swine flu death toll reaches 56
Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's influenza epidemic of the new virus A(H1N1) has...
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Mexico's flu death toll rises to 44
Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's epidemic of a hitherto-unknown strain of flu...
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Mexico's flu death toll reaches 42
Mexico City - The number of deaths in Mexico known to have been caused by the outbreak of a...
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Swine flu jumps from human to human in Germany
Munich - The new type of swine flu has jumped from one human to another within Germany for...
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Flu epidemic stifles Mexicans' traditional sociability
Mexico City - A week of measures to combat a flu epidemic - including several cases of swine...
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Mexico increases confirmed swine flu count to 49
Mexico City - The number of confirmed swine flu infections in Mexico rose from 26 to 49, although...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Pope Benedict ends Africa trip following rousing Angola welcome
Luanda - Pope Benedict XVI left Africa on Monday after a week-long visit, which was marred at...
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Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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China Celebrates Entering Year of the Ox
Millions of Chinese around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year and considering the problems...
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The Gates Foundation Joins Polio Fight
The Gates Foundation together with the governments of Germany and the United Kingdom and other...
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Global Efforts Against HIV/AIDS Should Focus On Prevention And Testing
Prevention strategies should be improved in order to reduce transmission of HIV among those...
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Chinese Woman Died of Bird Flu
The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that a 19-year-old teenager girl from Beijing died of...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Hong Kong steps up border checks to halt bird flu outbreak
Hong Kong - Customs officials were on Friday stepping up the number of random checks on vehicles...
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Malaria Vaccine – A ‘Hopeful Beginning’ in Fighting the Deadly Disease
Two studies appearing this week in the New England Journal of Medicine note that an experimental...
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Lawmakers in Papua, Indonesia Seek Microchip Monitoring for HIV Patients
Lawmakers in Papua,
Indonesia want
to keep an eye on people infected with HIV virus and prevent...
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One In Four 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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1st West Nile Virus Death of 2008 in California
The West Nile virus made its first human victim this year in the state of California. A 72-year-old...
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World's tallest woman dies in the US
Washington - Sandy Allen, the tallest woman in the world according to the Guinness Book of World...
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Nebraska Beef In The Spotlight Once Again With Another Major Recall
One month after Nebraska Beef Ltd., one of the nation’s
largest meatpackers, was involved in a...
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US’ Fight against HIV – Successful Overseas, But Not within Its Borders
The number of people being infected with HIV virus in the US is about 40 percent higher than...
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House Overwhelmingly Votes in Favor of Tobacco Regulation
US House of representative on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted
for a bill that would give the Food...
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FDA Inspecting Jalapeńos 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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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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Update: Kroger Recalls Ground Beef Linked to E. coli Outbreaks
Following E. coli
outbreaks in Michigan and Ohio
linked to ground beef from the Kroger Food...
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CDC: Five More States Report Salmonella Cases
Tomato-borne salmonella infections give Americans a hard
time, with the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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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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Obama Can Take Pride in His Health
Following John McCain’s release of his medical record, amounting to more than one thousand pages,...
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Science
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Scientists Decode Genetic Map Of Cold Virus
Science moves one step closer to finding an effective treatment for the common cold, as University...
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Too Little Sleep May Triple The Risk Of Catching A Cold
Getting more sleep is always good for our health. Whether it prevents heart disease and...
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Study Says Immune System Works Stronger At Night
Medical research is an on-going process, whether the aim is to find cures for cancer and AIDS or a...
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Study Says Zoo Life Is Killing Elephants
Seeing elephants at the zoo might be an incredible
experience for many, but knowing that their...
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Study: Zoo Conditions Halve Life Spans Of Captive Elephants
Seeing elephants at the zoo might be an incredible
experience for many, but knowing that their...
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Early HIV Diagnosis And Treatment Essential To Save Babies’ Lives
A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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Study: Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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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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HIV Origins Traced Around 1900, Much Earlier Than Believed
AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
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Chili Peppers’ Anti-Fungus Defensive Mechanism: They Get Hotter!
The secret behind the spiciness in some chili peppers and
the lack of it in others resides in a...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts To Find A Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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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 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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US Loses Lives and Money over Medical Errors
Hospitalization usually gives people a chance to get better,
but there are also cases when...
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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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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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Researchers Claim They Found The “Skinny” Gene
The researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have
found a new cause for obesity. According...
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Magpie Infected With H5N1 Virus Found In China
Hong Kong went into alert this week when a dead magpie found in an urban area of the region tested...
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California Whales Are Going Back To Ocean
The two whales, which were lost in the Sacramento rivers are finally moving back to
ocean after...
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