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Nexavar Fails in Melanoma Phase III Trial
German drug maker Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced they ended a Phase III...
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FDA Extends Review of AstraZeneca, Bristol Diabetes Drug Onglyza
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it needs additional time to complete the...
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Kaiser Permanente Settles Transplant Claims
Kaiser Permanent has agreed to pay $1 million to settle arbitration claims on behalf of five...
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Pfizer Halts Late-Stage Trial of Sutent for Advanced Breast Cancer
Giant drugmaker Pfizer Inc. announced Thursday that it stopped a Phase III clinical trial testing...
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Novartis’ Afinitor Gets FDA Clearance for Advanced Kidney Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Novartis AG’s Afinitor for advanced...
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Diabetics at a higher risk of kidney and nerve damage
Hamburg (dpa) - Diabetics are not only at higher risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, they...
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Lose Weight! Live Longer!
We know for a fact that obese people have a high risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and...
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Pfizer’s Sutent Trial Results Good News for Pancreatic Cancer Sufferers
Good news for people suffering from pancreatic cancer.
Giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer...
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Alcohol and Cancer Risk
A new study in the current edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute changes...
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Alcohol Consumption Tied to Cancer Risk in Women
Even moderate alcohol consumption appears to increase a woman’s risk of developing cancer,...
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Former Mayor Marion Barry OK after Kidney Transplant Surgery
Washington Mayor Marion Barry is in good condition after undergoing kidney transplant surgery on...
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Depart. Of Justice Seeks Damages from J&J, Scios Unit
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced its intention to join two lawsuits against a unit...
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry to Undergo Kidney Transplant
Washington Mayor Marion Barry was admitted to Howard University Hospital Thursday to prepare for...
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Regular Physical Activity, a Balanced Diet Help Diabetes Patients Keep the Disease under Control
A balanced diet, with plenty of fruits and vegetables, regular and sustained exercise can slow...
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Fake Doctor Sought In Buttocks Lift Case Turns Herself In
The fake doctor who performed cosmetic procedures on two women’s buttocks causing them...
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Woman from Tampa Arrested for Butt Injections
After two women had arrived at a Tampa, Florida, hospital because of the cosmetic injections which...
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People Paid to Quit Smoking More Likely to Succeed
People who get paid to stop smoking are three times more likely to kick the habit for at least...
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University of Chicago Medical Center to Cut 450 Jobs
The University of Chicago Medical Center said Monday it will eliminate the jobs of 450 employees,...
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February 9 - The Day Smoking Died…in Boston
Starting today, many Bostonians will breathe healthier air thanks to a tobacco ban implemented by...
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The Teething Medicine in Nigeria Kills 84 Children
Health officials announced on Friday that at least 84 children from Nigeria have been killed by a...
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Teething Pain Medicine Kills 84 Kids in Nigeria
The number of children who died from a contaminated baby medicine sold in Nigeria has increased...
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China Arrests Two People Over Fake Diabetes Drug Deaths
The safety of food and drugs appears to be a real problem from Chinese authorities. No further...
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Surgeons Remove Healthy Donor Kidney through Vagina
A team of surgeons at John Hopkins Medical Center have managed to remove a healthy kidney...
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Diabetes Test A1C May Be Soon Used As Diagnostic Tool
A1C test, also called the HbA1c or glycated hemoglobin test, may be soon used as a tool for...
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Pfizer Stops the Development of Pancreatic Drug
An independent monitoring board has recently detected the fact that axitinib drug, which had been...
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Weight Loss Improves Urinary Incontinence In Women
Doctors often advise patients to lose weight if they’re at risk of developing certain...
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Healthcare Groups, Authorities Join Their Efforts to Curb Smoking
The World Health Organization has repeatedly said that more effective tobacco control policies...
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Time Is No Threat To Kidney Donors
Many people believe that by donating a kidney, their kidney function will worsen in time, but...
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Researchers Find Mercury in High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Some food and drinks that contain high-fructose corn syrup may have detectable levels of...
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Traces of Mercury Found in Highly Popular Food Products
Researchers in the US found that much of the high fructose corn syrup that is increasingly...
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US Hypertension Rates on the Rise
As
obesity is continuously rising in the Unites States so is high blood pressure,
both conditions...
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China's Health Minitry: 47,000 Infants Hospitalized over Tainted Milk
Beijing - The number of infants hospitalized for problems linked to
the consumption of tainted...
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Twelve Percent of Milk Products Tainted, Tests Show
Beijing - Chinese authorities found an industrial chemical contaminating 12 per cent of dairy...
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US Attack in Pakistan: Five Killed, Six Injured
Islamabad - At least five people were killed and six wounded when a US drone aircraft attacked a...
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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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More Countries Ban Imports of “Made in China” Diary Products
China’s melamine-tainted milk products, which intoxicated as much as 53,000 infants in the Asian...
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53,000 Babies Sickened by Powdered Milk
Chinese doctors examined some 53,000 infants and hospitalized nearly 13,000 for problems related to...
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Hong Kong: Hundreds of Parents Want Their Kids Checked for Kidney Stones
Hundreds of parents swamped a Hong Kong hospital Monday to have their children checked after a...
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China's melamine scandal spreads to fresh milk
Beijing - Chinese health inspectors have found the chemical melamine in fresh and long-life milk...
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China Sacks City Mayor amid Contaminated Milk Scandal
China on Thursday fired the mayor of the northern city of Shijiazhuang, the base of the company...
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Number of Sick Babies from Sanlu’s Formula Soars
Wednesday, China's
health minister announced that the number of infants sickened by Sanlu...
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Number of Babies in China Ill from Contaminated Milk Rises to 1,253
As many as 1,253 babies had become ill with contaminated baby formula milk produced by the Chinese...
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Arrests Made in China as Second Baby Dies in Contaminated Formula Milk Case
Chinese authorities arrested two brothers in the
contaminated baby formula milk case, which killed...
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Cyanuramide Traces in Milk Powder Kill One Baby in China
Thursday,
Chinese authorities announced that due to traces of cyanuramide found in milk
formula,...
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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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Columnist Robert Novak Retires Due to Cancer Diagnosis
Columnist Robert D. Novak announced his immediate retirement from his professional career following...
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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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Fritzl’s Daughter Gets to Know Her Family
Kerstin Fritzl, the 19- year-old girl of the Austrian Josef
Fritzl has recovered from her coma and...
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Piano Student Paralyzed By Bullet To Be Released From Hospital
The boy who remained paralyzed
from the waist down after being shot by a man while taking piano...
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Identical Triplets Born To Long Island Couple
Tom and Allison Penn have been
trying for four years to have a baby, and they were stunned when...
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Head of Kidney Transplant Ring Extradited to India
The supposed ringleader of a syndicate that allegedly illegally removed hundreds of kidneys from...
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Kidney Ring Mastermind Caught In Nepal
The suspect mastermind that was behind the illegal organ transplant
operation in India...
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Indian Police Uncovers Illegal Kidney-Trafficking Operation
Indian authorities have started
an intensive search for the mastermind of an illegal...
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Man Shooting 10-Year-Old Oakland Boy, Paralyzing Him, Charged
A man who allegedly fired shots during an Oakland gas station robbery, which seriously
injured a...
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Girl with 8 Limbs Operated
On Tuesday doctors in Bangalore
began to operate a 2-year-old girl that was borne with four...
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Get Rid of Extra Pounds! They Shorten Your Life!
British researchers at the University of Oxford, through a new study, have warned once again...
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Even Moderate Drinking May Lead to Cancer in Women
Many studies have shown that alcohol consumed in moderate amounts prevents diseases. One glass of...
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Marion Barry ‘Is Getting Better Every Day’
The kidney transplant surgery that Washington former mayor Marion Barry underwent on Friday went...
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Financial Incentives, a Strong Reason to Quit Smoking
Would you quit smoking for money? A new study suggests that money may be a strong reason to...
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Willem J. Kolff, ‘Father Of The Artificial Organ’ Dies
Dr. Willem J. Kolff, the man behind the first artificial kidney and several other devices that...
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Higher Altitude Improves the Effects of Dialysis
Dialysis patients who live at higher altitude have more chances to survive for a longer...
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Kids Who Need Vitamins Less Likely To Get Them
A study appearing in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine reveals that children and...
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Pfizer Ends Phase III Trial Of Pancreatic Cancer Drug Axitinib
Pfizer Inc. halted a Phase III study of its experimental drug axitinib designed to cure advanced...
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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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A Better Way Of Keeping Donor Organs Fresh
Deutsch researchers claim that they have found a method to increase the odds that kidneys from...
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Chinese Men Go on Tainted Milk Trial
Six men have become subject to a trial in China, in which they are accused of having both made...
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Low-Glycemic Diet Helps Diabetics
People suffering from type 2 diabetes may keep their disease under control if they follow a...
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Immunity – Stronger at Night
New study highlights once again, if necessary, the benefits of a good night’s sleep suggesting that...
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FDA Wants ‘Black Box’ Warning for Bowel Cleansing Drugs
Drugs used before colonoscopies may cause kidney damage, the Food and Drug Administration warned on...
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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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Odetta Holmes, Civil Rights Force, Passes Away At 77
Odetta Holmes, singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, and
human rights activist, passed away...
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Report: Some Foods Contain Too Much Salt
A new study to be published in the January issue of Consumer
Reports reveals that many foods...
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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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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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Tupac’s Friend, MC Breed Passed Away
Eric Breed, a.k.a. MC Breed, died Saturday at a friend's home in Ypsilanti, about 30 miles...
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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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Blood Pressure Drug Avapro Shows No Benefit in Heart Failure Trial
Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp. and Sanofi-Aventis SA blood
pressure drug Avapro failed in a...
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Fish Might Help Diabetics’ Kidneys
Including fish in your diet twice a week may prevent kidney
damage if you’re diabetic, British...
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New Drug for Overactive Bladder Approved: Toviaz
Overactive bladder patients can now find relieve in Toviaz,
a drug made by Germany’s
Schwarz...
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Toviaz Gets FDA Clearance For Overactive Bladder
US regulators on Friday approved Toviaz (fesoterodine fumarate) for patients suffering from...
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World's First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Performed in South Africa
Johannesburg - The world's first organ transplants from an HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive...
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New York Met, flagship of US opera, turns 125
New York - New Yorkers can thank a petty quarrel among the rich and super rich for giving them a...
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EPA Sets Tighter Standard On Lead Emissions
The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has informed that they would be setting a new standard...
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EPA Strengthens Air Quality Standards For Lead Emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday strengthened
the nation’s air quality...
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