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Severe Hypoglycemia May Increase Risk for Dementia in Diabetes Patients
Older people suffering from diabetes are more likely to be diagnosed with dementia when they...
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Brown Fat May Help People Fight Obesity
How many times have you heard your friends complaining of being fat? Or how many times you wished...
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Google Health Expands Partnership with CVS Caremark
Rhode Island Company CVS Caremark Corp. said it has expanded its partnership with Google Health by...
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Intel, GE Reportedly Plan to Announce Health Care Partnership
Chip giant Intel Corp. and US conglomerate General Electric Co plan to announce a partnership in...
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Adoption of Electronic Medical Records Going Slow in US Hospitals
According to a survey published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, only 9...
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Google Adds ‘Share’ Feature to Its Google Health
Google added a new feature called Share this Profile to its Google Health Wednesday, an option...
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Women Who Enjoy Coffee Have Lower Stroke Risk
Women who enjoy coffee on daily basis have a lower risk of stroke, according to a study to be...
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Octuplet Mom Followed by Quadruplet Mom
In spite of the fact that Dr. Michael Kamrava is under investigation by the American Society For...
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Economic Stimulus Bill Raises Concern over Rationed Health Care
Opponents to the new economic stimulus bill are concerned that the plan could result in the...
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Doctor Has License Revoked over Abortion Case
The license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice was revoked on Friday by the Board...
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No Link Found Between Fertility Drugs and Ovarian Cancer
Women treated with common fertility drugs do not have an increased risk of ovarian cancer, a new...
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IBM Helps Google In An Effort To Put Personal Health Data Online
It looks like Google and IBM will team up in order to help get personal health data online, as the...
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Women’s Heart Rate May Predict Heart Attack
Women’s pulse may be a good predictor of their risk of heart attack later in life,...
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IBM Teams up with Google for Your Health
Thanks to a new project, people who use Google Health will be able to connect their personal...
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HealthGrades: Top-Rated Hospitals Have 27 Percent Lower Death Rate
Another report, this time coming from HealthGrades, comes to the rescue of people looking for the...
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Certain Facial Injuries Signal Cases of Domestic Violence
Although we live in a free world where communication should settle any dispute, there are still...
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Newer Antipsychotics Increase Heart Risk
The latest generation of antipsychotic drugs appears to be twice as likely to cause sudden...
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The US Health Care System Demands A Significant Change
One of the biggest problems in the United States is and has been for many years the health care...
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Overdose Deaths on the Rise in West Virginia, Report
Deaths from overdose of prescription drugs seem to be increasing in the United States, especially...
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Strangers’ Happiness Influences Yours
The United States are home to some of the oddest records, attractions and - more recently –...
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Many FEMA Trailer Kids Found Anemic
Although three years have passed since Hurricane Katrina hit
the Gulf Coast
of the United...
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Hurricane Katrina Sickened Thousands of Children
A U.S. hospital study released Monday by the New York's Children's Health Fund shows that children...
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Autumn Babies More Likely To Develop Asthma
U.S. researchers concluded on Friday that babies that are born four months before the peak cold and...
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Health Insurer Tests Program For Abroad Surgery
The health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that gives covered patients the option of...
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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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New Hampshire’s Drug Privacy Law Upheld
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld New Hampshire’s law that
restricts drug companies access...
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Investigation Shows Disastrous Situation in Washington Hospitals
A news investigation conducted by The Times takes a hard look at Washington hospitals’ failure to...
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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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Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death Highest in the Month after Heart Attack
Heart attack patients are more susceptible to die within the
first 30 days after the attack, a...
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Octuplet Mom Followed By Quadruplet Mom
In spite of the fact that Dr. Michael Kamrava is under investigation by the American Society For...
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Octuplets Grandma Unaware Of Daughter’s Insurance Money
The California woman, who became famous after giving birth to eight babies in late January, is...
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Octuplets Are the New Los Angeles Sensation
Hospital officials say the octuplets born outside Los Angeles ten days ago continue to be just...
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IBM Announces Partnership with Google Health
People who already use Google Health program will now be able to transfer their health records...
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Efficacy of Bristol, Sanofi’s Plavix Questioned
The Food and Drug Administration said it has ordered the makers of the widely used blood thinner...
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Specific Facial Injuries Can Point to Domestic Abuse Cases
Female victims of domestic violence usually have distinct patterns of facial injuries, a new...
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14-Pound Baby Delivered Via C-Section In Calif.
A woman from Laguna Hills, Calif. delivered a 14-pound baby boy on Dec. 23.
The baby, delivered...
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Three Officers Charged in Brooklyn Police Brutality Case
Three NYPD officers were charged Tuesday in the sodomy case
brought against them by a 24-year-old...
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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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Fall Babies Have 30 Percent Higher Risk of Developing Asthma
Children born four months before peak flu season are more
likely to develop childhood asthma...
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Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death - the Highest within 30 Days after Heart Attack
A new study by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis and Mayo Clinic in...
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Excessive Weight Gain during Pregnancy Doubles the Risk of Having Heavy Babies
More than one in five women gain excessive weight during pregnancy and they have a higher risk of...
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Alleged NYPD Police Brutality Before Special Grand Jury
A special investigative grand jury will examine evidence in
the Brooklyn case of a 24-year-old...
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The Police Sodomy Allegation Is Under Thorough Investigation
New York prosecutors are investigating allegations that five police officers attacked a tattoo...
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DWTS’ Julianne Hough Was Taken To The Hospital After The Show
Tuesday
night, just after the live broadcast of the “Dancing With The Stars” show ended,
Julianne...
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OHSU: 9 Million Kids Have No Health Insurance Coverage in the US
While US
presidential candidates’ debate over health care is making headlines all over
the world,...
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The Beginning of Personal Genome Project: Positive and Negative Aspects
Harvard Medical School genetics professor
George Church, Harvard psychology professor Steven...
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Harvard Gene Project Posts DNA Data of 10 Volunteers Online
Hoping to give medical research a big push forward, the Harvard University Medical School made the...
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Kim Kardashian, Braxton And Bass To Hit The Dance Floor
The list of celebrity contestants for the new season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars"...
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Celebrity Rehab Subject Of Investigation
Dr. Drew Pinsky, co-medical director of Aurora Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, is...
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Obesity Comes With Heart Risks But Not Necessarily
Hundreds of previous studies have showed that obesity comes
with a number or risks, such as heart...
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Oscar-Winning Soul Legend Isaac Hayes Dies At 65
Oscar-winning soul singer and songwriter Isaac Hayes, whose
1971’s “Theme from Shaft” made him the...
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FBI Reveals New Details in Anthrax Case
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation, used two...
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Sparrow Hospital Employees Fired for Accessing Private Medical Information
After the UCLA Medical Center scandal, when
127 workers read without permission celebrity medical...
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Snooping in Celebrity Files – Something Common at UCLA Medical Center
It appears that celebrity comes itself with more than fame. It
brings paparazzi trouble, which...
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More UCLA Medical Center Staffers Involved In Medical Records Scandal
127 workers at a Los Angeles hospital read without permission
celebrity medical records between...
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Prostate Screening’s Efficiency In The Elderly Questioned
Prostate-cancer screening or the PSA test for men aged 75 or
older should be stopped because there...
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Wife Accuses A-Rod of Spying on Her
Things are getting more interesting day by day in Alex Rodriguez’ divorce trial from his wife...
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Hormone Therapy Not Efficient in Older Men with Prostate Cancer
A new study published in the July 9 issue of the Journal of
the American Medical Association...
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50s Musical Star Cyd Charisse Died
Cyd Charisse, one of the icons of the Hollywood musicals from the 50s, died Tuesday of what is...
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People
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Octomom Scared Hostpital Won’t Release Her Babies to Her
Talking to TV host “Dr. Phil” McGraw on Tuesday, Nadya Suleman revealed that her...
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Jamie Spears Gets Restraining Orders for His Daughter
According to court documents filed on Friday, Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears has obtained new...
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Mariska Hargitay Has Pneumotorax
Mariska Hargitay is an American actress you are certainly familiar with – or at least you...
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Suge Knight Faces Criminal Charges, Jail Sentence
Marion “Suge” Knight is
facing criminal charges following his arrest in August in Las Vegas on...
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Michael Jackson, Too Ill For Court
Michael Jackson is the eternal King of Pop. Five oh his records were worldwide best-sellers, namely...
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Britney Spears’ Father To Remain In Control Of Her Finances Indefinitely
Tuesday, Los
Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz granted Britney Spears’ father
Jamie...
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Motown Influential Songwriter Norman Whitfield Dies
Tuesday, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Norman
Whitfield died from diabetes...
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Suge Knight Posts Bail, Expected in Court Sept. 26
Hip hop entrepreneur Marion “Suge”
Knight posted $19,000 bail Wednesday after being arrested on...
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Zuma: The New Addition To Stefani – Rossdale Family
According to a statement from Stefani's publicist, Interscope Records, singer and fashion designer...
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Music Star Isaac Hayes Suffered A Stroke, Police Says
Isaac Hayes, one of the artists whose influence in soul
music enriched this genre, died at the age...
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Hospital Workers Fired for Peeking into Britney’s Medical Records
Several employees of the UCLA Medical
Center will be fired or
disciplined for looking at Britney...
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Controversial Anna Nicole Smith Remembered
On February 8, 2007, a year ago, Vickie Lynn Marshall aka Anna Nicole Smith died.A Texas native,...
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Rap Diva Foxy Brown Refuses Prison Bus Ride
Foxy Brown, currently serving a 1-year sentence in a New York prison, refused to board the...
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Leaking George Clooney's Medical Records Leads to Suspension
Hospital employees that allegedly accessed information from George Clooney's medical records...
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Hanson Brother Released from Hospital
Isaac Hanson, the eldest of the musical siblings in the band Hanson, was released Friday from...
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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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Foxy Brown: New Album, Jail Time and No Baby
Rapper Foxy Brown was sentenced to 12 months of jail last week and now her manager has denied she...
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Amy Winehouse Absent at VMAs
Amy Winehouse’s record label has confirmed that the British singer, hospitalized for a drug...
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Amy Winehouse "Retreats" from U.S. Tour
Amy Winehouse announced earlier this week that she would cancel her forthcoming U.S. tour due to...
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World
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Man Sporting Samurai Swords Shot at Scientology Building
A man wielding two samurai swords was shot and killed by a
security guard at the Church of...
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Biden Shares Medical Records with the World
To avoid speculations upon his health, Democratic US vice
president nominee Joe Biden on...
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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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Federal Agents May Seize Travelers’ Laptops at Border
Under a new measure introduced by the Bush administration, federal agents may seize a traveler's...
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Pittsburg Woman Charged for Killing Mother, Stealing Unborn Baby
Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, of Wilkinsburg, the main suspect in the case of the woman found dead in a...
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Pittsburg Teen Killed, Eviscerated and Baby Stolen from Her Womb
A woman was found dead in the Pittsburg suburbs and investigators are currently trying to identify...
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Warren Jeffs, the Polygamist Sect Leader, Hospitalized
Tuesday, Warren Jeffs, the polygamist sect leader who was
jailed, was transported to a hospital in...
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Senator John McCain Is As Fit As Can Be
After Senator John McCain’s alleged health problems reached the spot light, his medical records...
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Airplane Crash In Congo Kills 33 People
A Congolese airplane crashed yesterday into a crowded market district in the eastern city of Goma,...
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Document on Marriage, Birth, Cyanide Seized at Polygamist Ranch
The released copies of search warrants showed that police investigators involved in the raids at...
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Suspect in Slaying Pregnant Marine Spotted in Louisiana
The suspect in the murder of pregnant Marine Lance Cpl.
Maria Lauterbach, declared missing by her...
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Nationwide Manhunt for Suspect in Marine's Death is Under Way
Investigators in the case of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, declared missing by her mother on...
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Doctor Arrested in Australia to Be Questioned by British Police
Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, arrested Monday at Brisbane Airport over last week’s failed...
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Giant Baby Born In India
The tallest woman in India, a 19-year-old basketball player hovering at over 7 feet, has given...
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