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Most Americans Living in Areas with High Levels of Pollution
According to the American Lung Association’s State of Air 2009 report released on Wednesday,...
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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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Canada surgeons stop baby heart transplant; donor breathed on own
New York/Toronto - The parents of a two-month-old baby wanted to donate the heart of their...
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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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March 24 Is World TB Day
March 24 is World TB Day, a day that aims to remind people that the disease is still a major health...
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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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Too Much TV May Double Risk of Asthma in Kids
Watching television for more than two hours a day is not healthy for the kids…this is...
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Michigan Woman Has Two Babies from Two Wombs
A woman from northern Michigan has given birth to twin daughters seven weeks premature Thursday...
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Doctor Accused of Medical Malpractice Loses License
The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a doctor accused of medical malpractice in...
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Justice Ginsburg Has Surgery To Remove Pancreatic Tumor
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Thursday at the Memorial...
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RSV Infections More Common Than Previously Known
Respiratory syncytial virus or RSV appears to be responsible for as many visits to doctors each...
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Flu Outbreak Expected This Winter! Single Anti-Flu Treatment Not Enough
This season it is recommended that doctors prescribe rimantidine along with Tamiflu because this...
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Rise in Hib Cases in Minnesota Makes CDC Officials Urge Vaccination
Five children were infected in Minnesota with a bacterial infection known as Hib: Haemophilus...
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Moms’ C-section Complications On The Rise
C-section has long been thought to have consequences on newborns’ health, especially those...
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Diastolic Dysfunction Related to Reduced Exercise Capacity
Diastolic dysfunction substantially reduces a person’s ability to exercise, a new study...
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Illinois Homes Have Too Much Radon
According to a new study released by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, 42 percent of...
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Early C-Sections Pose Risks For Babies, Study Reveals
Babies born by Caesarean section earlier than medical guidelines recommend are twice as...
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C-Sections Increases Risks For Babies If Done Before Term
Cesarean delivery appears to increase the risk of an adverse neonatal outcome by 50 percent...
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Low Blood Oxygen on Everest Proved Another Amazing Human Capability
British researchers have found that the established medical rules about the amount of oxygen needed...
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Radon Must Be Stopped – 1,100 People Die Annually
Even if nobody expected this, it looks like 95 percent of 1,100 deaths caused each year by radon...
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Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Breast Cancer Spread
Researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey have identified a gene...
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Smoking Ban Reduces Heart Attack Admissions By 41%
One of the most damaging vices one can have is smoking. The habit has negative effects not...
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Secrets Released About the 1918 Pandemic Flu
Researchers have recently discovered the cause which had led to the death of so many people...
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Genes Caused the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Researchers found out the main cause of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic. Apparently, the main cause of...
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Experimental Drug Protects Mice from Emphysema
Mice exposed to cigarette smoke on daily basis avoided lung damage thanks to an experimental...
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Brain Swelling Linked to Many Deaths on Mount Everest
Not avalanches, falling ice or lung problems seem to be the reasons for which many climbers on...
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U.K. Conjoined Twin Dies after Separation Surgery
One of two conjoined twin girls born to an 18-year-old
British woman a week ago died due to lung...
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Conjoined Twin Dies in Hospital, Her Sister in Stable Condition after Surgery
A conjoined twin has died in hospital after
an operation to separate her from her sister. The...
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Vaccines Shortage For Hib May Lead To An Epidemic
Epidemics and pandemics are very hard to keep under control or be successfully quarantined. A...
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Doctors Should Be Alert During Hib Vaccine Shortage, CDC Says
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
Thursday urged doctors and health agencies to...
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Science
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Gene Linked to Breast Cancer Spread Identified
Researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey have identified a gene...
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Brain Swelling: The Cause Of Many Deaths On Mount Everest
Not avalanches, falling ice or lung problems seem to be the reasons for which many climbers on...
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Conjoined Twin Dies After Separation
The twins, Hope and Faith Williams, who were separated at
Great Ormond Street Hospital in London,...
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Europeans Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
An article in the Nov. 19 online issue of the journal The
Lancet tells that story of a Colombian...
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First Stem Cells Trachea Transplant
An article in the British medical journal The Lancet
recently reported that physicians from four...
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Jim Henson's Son Behind "Sid the Science Kid" Coming on PBS
Master puppeteer Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppets, will be honored once again as his legacy...
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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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Serotonin Imbalance May Be Responsible for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
A study by Italian researchers may offer the answer to sudden infant death syndrome, the third...
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PVC Shower Curtains Hazardous to Your Health
A U.S.
environmental non-profit organization warned last week that polyvinyl chloride
(PVC)...
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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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Specials
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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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FDA Advisory Panel Supports J&J, Bayer Anticlotting Drug Rivaroxaban
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted on Thursday to recommend that the agency...
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Elective C-section Risky for Babies
New research published this week in the journal New England Journal of Medicine questions the...
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Faith Williams Still in Serious Condition after Separation Surgery
Faith Williams, the baby girl that survived an emergency
surgery of separation from her baby...
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Odetta’s Voice and Humanism Will Always Be Remembered
One of the great folk singers of late-20th-century America, Odetta Holmes known as Odetta, died of...
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Stem Cell Transplant Method Is A Real Success
Stem cells have been always been regarded as stepping on the line of ethics, but those were the...
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The French Artificial Heart
Recently, French scientists have seriously engaged in the race of building the first proper...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Could Double Risk of Heart Attack
Three studies scheduled to be presented this week at the
American College of Rheumatology's annual...
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A Baby and a Christmas CD, What More Could a Famous Singer Wish For?
It seems that life is perfect for American Idol’s Paris Bennett, as she gave birth to a daughter...
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Feathers Weigh a Lot on the Evolutionary Scale
When thinking about dinosaurs, one usually imagines T-rex
like creatures, fierce and muscular,...
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All’s Well When it Ends Well
The 35-year-old US illusionist David Blaine has successfully completed his latest death defying...
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New York Tries to Make People Quit Smoking with Horrifying Images
Smokers in New York will have to face the truth about the
harmful effects of smoking on their...
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Following His Latest Stunt, David Blaine Could Go Blind
The well-known magician and illusionist David Blaine is jeopardizing his health with his most...
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US Surgeon General Issues 'Call to Action' to Cut DVT and PE Numbers
In an attempt to reduce the number of people dying from deep
vein thrombosis and...
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Britney Spears’ VMA Act - Much Ado About Nothing
After weeks of speculation regarding Britney Spears’
performance at this year’s MTV Video Music...
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Lt. Gov. Catherine Knoll Diagnosed With Neuroendocrine Tumor
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll (77) said she had been diagnosed with...
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On-Stage And Off-Stage Bernie Mac Forever Remembered
“I ain’t scared at ya!” was one of Bernie Mac’s
catchphrases. He surely wasn’t scared and he...
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Prominent Comedian Bernie Mac Died Saturday
Bernie Mac, one of the most popular comedians of our days, died Saturday in the Northwestern...
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Actor/Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at 50 after Pneumonia Complications
Well-known comedian and actor Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, a.k.a. Bernie Mac, died at the age of 50...
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Bernie Mac's Medical Condition 'Critical'
Comedian Bernie Mac may not be dead yet, but according to a source close to the funnyman's family,...
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Bernie Mac “Still Alive,” Worrisome Rumors Not True, Says His Rep
Actor Bernie Mac was hospitalized this week for pneumonia
and reports soon appeared that he was...
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Ulcer Bacterium Could Protect against Asthma
Helicobacter Pylori bacterium, which usually causes ulcers
and stomach cancer may protect children...
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Innovative Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey Passes Away
Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey, whose career spanned
more than seven worthy decades,...
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Father Of Modern Cardiovascular Surgery Dr. DeBakey Dies
The medical world has lost a great man on Friday night in the person of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a...
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Amy Winehouse’s Rep Denies Emphysema Report
A disparity concerning the health of Amy Winehouse appeared
Monday after the Grammy-winning...
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Amy Winehouse in Early Stages of Emphysema
British singer Amy Winehouse has been suffering from an unclear medical condition that her father...
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South Carolina: 10-Year-Old Boy Tragically Dies of ‘Dry Drowning’
A South Carolina 10-year-old died tragically on Sunday an hour after swimming because of “dry...
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FDA: Patients Should Switch to HFA Inhalers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory Friday
saying patients should give up...
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Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest’s Conqueror, A Man Larger Than Life
Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who has the first to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak at...
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Tammy Faye Messner Succumbs to Cancer
Tammy Faye
Messner, favorite televangelist of many in the 1980s and 1990s, died Saturday at
age...
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People
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Lance Armstrong Preparing For Baby No. 4 With New Girlfriend
Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend of nearly six months, Anna Hansen,...
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Lance Armstrong to Become a Father Again
Lance Armstrong and girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting their first child together in June, as the...
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Another Solo Album For That Lucky Beach Boy Brian Wilson
After “Smile”, the revival of a lost Beach Boys project,
Brian Wilson brings out new material,...
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Thousands Gathered At Bernie Mac’s Memorial
The public memorial of Bernie Mac drew thousands at
the House of Hope church in Chicago
on...
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“40-Year-Old Virgin” Actor Shelley Malil Pleads Not Guilty
Things aren’t looking so good for Shelley Malil, the actor
best known for his role in “The...
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Comedian Bernie Mac Still In Hospital Recovering
After rumors that comedian Bernie Mac was in a “very very
critical” condition, came the reassuring...
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Comedian Bernie Mac in Hospital With Case of Pneumonia
Bad news for Bernie Mac’s fans. The funny man has
pneumonia and he was hospitalized, beginning his...
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Amy Winehouse Leaves London Clinic
Amy Winehouse, the troubled singer who recently turned aggressive during a concert and punched a...
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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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Nancy Grace Expected To Be Released From Hospital
The Headline News anchor’s condition improved after she was hospitalized on Sunday due to...
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Nancy Grace Welcomes Twins
CNN Headline News anchor Nancy Grace welcomed twins John David and Lucy Elizabeth Sunday, two...
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Hanson Brother Undergoes Surgery, Recovering Well
Isaac Hanson, the eldest brother of the “MMMBop” trio, was hospitalized Tuesday night...
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Tammy Faye Messner Talks to Larry King
Cancer-stricken evangelist Tammy Faye Messner made what she feared would be her final television...
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World
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Policeman In Grece Seriously Injured In Grenade Attack
Athens - Earlier today, a Greek policeman was seriously injured by some unknown attackers who threw...
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Twenty 20 dead in Russian nuclear submarine accident
Moscow - Twenty people died on a new Russian nuclear-powered submarine during a test run in the...
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Medicare Payment Error Rate Higher Than Said
The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denounced Medicare for...
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Goose Creek Boy Dies from Secondary Drowning
Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old South Carolina boy died last
weekend after he swallowed water from a...
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Power Outage Kills Woman Living in Iron Lung
Sometimes we hear about people who never give up. Even if
they encounter many obstacles in life,...
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British Mother Signals Police Cover Up in Her Daughter’s Death
The mother of the British teenager found dead
three weeks ago on a beach in Goa, expressed...
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Indian Arrested For Raping British Teen Found Dead in Goa
A man suspected of having raped
the 15-year-old British teenager Scarlett Keeling found dead on a...
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U.S Plans To Shoot Falling Satellite
U.S.
officials announced Thursday that the Bush administration has decided to shoot
the falling...
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CIA Used Waterboarding Three Times, Says Hayden
Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, admitted in front of the Congress on Tuesday that the agency...
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Memorials for Rep. Julia Carson Commence Today
The body of Congresswoman Julia Carson was carried to the Indiana Statehouse with a horse-drawn...
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Rep. Julia Carson, First Black Congresswoman of Indianapolis, Dies
The first African American and first woman to represent the city of Indianapolis in Congress -...
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Mukasey Says Waterboarding Is “Repugnant”
According to a poll made by the CNN/Opinion Research Corp.
over this weekend shows that a majority...
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Inspectors Discover Dangerous Chemicals at UN Building
Inspectors from the United Nations found several vials containing dangerous chemicals in an office...
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Cancer, The Number 1 Cause Of Death In China
Increased levels of pollution have made cancer the number
one cause of death in China,
said a...
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