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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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Babies Born In Fall More Predisposed To Asthma
A study that will be published next month in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...
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Caregivers’ Stress Can Bring Down Family Members
In the case of a family member, the stress caused by
providing care for a loved one with...
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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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Stem Cell Airway Transplant Succeeded
As any other science, medicine is also constantly changing, evolving, improving for the benefit of...
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Heartless For 118 Days
Medicine advances on a regular basis, leading to major breakthroughs in the field. The...
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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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Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Shows
Millions of people take the herbal
supplement, hoping that it will cut their risk of developing...
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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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Ginkgo Biloba, a Pseudo Drug against Dementia
According to a clinical trial reported Tuesday, the elixir of eternal mental acuity, the herbal...
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Study: Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Tuesday, United States researchers revealed that the Ginkgo
biloba herbal supplement did not...
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Mason County Man Agrees to Settlement in Disfigured Groin Case
A Mason County
man whose penis was destroyed by a bacteria while he was in prison, has won...
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Doctors 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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Ginkgo Biloba No Good To Prevent Alzheimer’s
Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of
years. Today, it is one of the top...
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Vitamin C and E Supplements Useless in Preventing Cancer
After two recent studies have shown that there’s little
merit in taking Vitamin B, folic acid,...
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Vitamin C, E Supplements Fail To Reduce Cancer Risk
A series of studies have lately shown that vitamins don’t reduce
cancer risk. Just two weeks ago,...
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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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Gardasil HPV Vaccine Might Protect Men Too
Thursday, Merck
and Company, the drug manufacturer behind the Gardasil HPV vaccine, revealed...
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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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Large Waists - Early Death Risk Factor
Obesity is one of the main risk factors in developing cardiovascular diseases and other serious...
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Merck’s Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts in Males As Well
Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil was found to be effective in
men as well, this time preventing...
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Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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Too Much Belly Fat Doubles The Risk Of Early Death
It’s no secret anymore that overweight and obese people have
more health problems than those...
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Vitamins Have Specific Benefits
Vitamins are beneficial for your health – no medical officials are denying that. Many are...
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Obese Children Face High Risk of Heart Disease
Tuesday, at the American Heart Association conference held
in New Orleans, a study concerning the...
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Crestor and Its Effects
The drug Crestor, e new comer designed to lower cholesterol, has also been proven to lower the risk...
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Research Shows No Benefit from Vitamin D in Breast Cancer Prevention
A new study in the online edition of the Journal of the
National Cancer Institute adds to the...
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Avapro Blood Pressure Drug Ineffective To Heart-Failure Patients
In a clinical trial, the blood pressure medicine Avapro didn’t perform better than other medicines...
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People
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Lori Drew Case Started Today. Open Statements Made
In what promises to be one recent times’ most convoluted
cases, 49 year old Lori Drew is accused...
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Alcohol Ingestion Drops In Americans As They Grow Old
It appears that Americans are drinking less alcohol, with middle-aged people consuming an estimated...
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Mary-Kate Olsen Won’t Talk About Ledger Without Immunity
Mary-Kate Olsen has refused to speak to federal
investigators about Heath Ledger’s death unless...
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Famous US Heart Surgeon Dies at 99 Years of Age
Michael DeBakey has been considered by many one of the parents of cardiovascular surgery thanks to...
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Anne Hathaway's Ex: From Courthouse To Hospital
Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway's former boyfriend, who was arrested the other day on wire fraud...
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Lutfi Carefully Removed from Britney’s Entourage
The man claiming to be friend and manager to pop singer
Britney Spears, Sam Lutfi, has agreed to...
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Britney's Dad Conservator Through July
Jamie Spears will remain in control of daughter Britney Spears’ estate until July 31,...
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Papa Spears' Legal Control over Daughter Continues
Troubled pop star Britney Spears has not regained control over her affairs. Los Angeles Court...
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Lynne Spears: Lutfi Brainwashed My Daughter
Lynne Spears accuses the dubious Sam Lutfi, self-declared
manager and friend of Britney Spears, of...
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Dancing Inspires More Marie Osmond Dolls
Entertainer and celebrated doll maker Marie Osmond was so inspired by her experience on the...
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Mischa Barton Hospitalized For Bad Medicine Reaction
The actress was taken to a Los Angeles hospital on Sunday evening after reportedly having a bad...
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A Bit of Marijuana Taboo
One little vehicle collision and then, oopsie, you’re world famous for possession of marijuana (and...
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World
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Job Cuts Loom As German Auto Industry Battles Slump
Berlin - There's a saying in Germany that when Daimler coughs, the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg...
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Prince Charles, longest-waiting heir to the throne, turns 60
London - During his recent visit to Indonesia, Prince Charles watched a traditional dance about two...
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Death Toll above 230 in Pakistan Earthquake
Islamabad - The official death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit south-western Pakistan...
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Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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Cholera Outbreak in Pakistan's Violence-Hit North-West
Islamabad - Health authorities treated hundreds of patients affected by a cholera outbreak in...
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IAEA Report Proof of Peaceful Nuclear Programme
Tehran - The West considers the latest report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Iran's...
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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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Russia Could Be Totally Isolated Due to Violations of the Ceasefire
Russia could be totally isolated due to violations of the
ceasefire, US Secretary of State...
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Karadzic to Make First Court Appearance at The Hague Today
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic was handed over on Wednesday from Serbia to a...
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20th Century Medicine Giant Michael DeBakey Dies At 99
Heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, whose revolutionary heart transplants
and coronary bypass surgical...
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EU Backs Erbitux as First Line Drug Against Cancer
The European Medicines Agency, based in London, has approved the use of Erbitux, produced by Merck...
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Missing Couple Found Safe in Grand Canyon
All’s well when it ends well.
A couple who went hiking in the Grand
Canyon got lost and was...
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U.N. Chief Visits Myanmar’s Relief Camps
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Myanmar today in an attempt to persuade the country’s...
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U.N. Secretary-General to Meet with Myanmar Ruler
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he will meet with Myanmar’s military leader, Senior Gen....
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Asian Countries Discuss Myanmar Relief Effort
As Burmese military junta announced its decision to allow Asian countries to provide aid to the...
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Brown Says “Inhuman” Help Might Cost Burma Another Disaster
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Myanmar for not managing effectively
the distribution of...
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Myanmar Death Toll Reaches 78,000
Nearly two weeks after the devastating Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawaddy Delta and the country’s...
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School Bus Crash Kills Four Students in Minn.
Cottonwood, Minnesota faced a terrible situation Tuesday. Four students died in a school bus crash...
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Canadian Officers Used Taser on Polish Immigrant (update)
After the video recording released a few days ago in which one can clearly see the last moments of...
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Death Toll Climbs To 2000 In Bangladesh (Update)
Official rescuers in Bangladesh counted another 300 bodies
of people killed in Friday's cyclone...
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Chilean President Visits Earthquake Damaged Areas
On Thursday, as President Michelle Bachelet was visiting
residents in Tocopilla reassuring them...
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242 Killed by Tropical Cyclone in Bangladesh
At least 242 people were killed late Thursday as the
tropical cyclone Sidr hit the southern...
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Cuba, The Americas Honor Che Guevara
Cuba, as well as other Latin American countries, held celebrations on Monday in Ernesto...
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Bin Laden Stirs Controversy After Appearing in Video
Six years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks took nearly 3,000 lives, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden...
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Hurricane Felix Death Toll Continues to Rise
Official reports indicate that 52 people died in Nicaragua after Hurricane Felix struck the country...
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Floods in North Korea Delay Summit With Neighbouring South
A summit that both nations eagerly expected was delayed due to the severe flooding North Korea is...
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North Korea to Receive 7.2-Million-Dollar Aid From South
North Korea will receive an aid of 7.5 million dollars from its neighbour South Korea after floods...
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U.S.
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Many Primary Care Doctors Not Satisfied with Their Work, Want to Quit
A survey released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, a
non-profit group of state medical...
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Overworked Doctors Looking For Alternative Careers
It’s no secret that life as a doctor is hard and tiresome. The sheer pressure of responsibility is...
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Survey: Many United States Doctors Consider Quitting
A survey
released Tuesday revealed that many primary care doctors in the United
States were...
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NASA: Endeavour And STS-126 Crew Prepare For Launch
Endeavour's crew members ate their traditional launch-day meal in Kennedy's Operations and Checkout...
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US Heart Failure Hospitalization Rate Almost Tripled Over Three Decades
A study presented Sunday at the American Heart Association
meeting in New Orleans revealed that...
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Drug Prescriptions For Children Rising At Alarming Rates
More and more children in the United States are prescribed
medication for chronic diseases,...
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US Supreme Court To Decide On Drug Lawsuits
Unquestionably, there are thousands of suspended cases across the United States that hang on the...
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FDA And Scientist Argue Over BPA Risk, Consumers Left In Confusion
Health officials are currently trying to establish whether bisphenol A (BPA) is a threat or a...
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Update: Doctors Prescribe Placebos Without Patients’ Knowledge
Prescribing placebos has become a common thing among US doctors, with more than half of them...
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3 Percent Of American Children Are Unisured, With An Insured Parent
More than 2 million American children have
no health insurance because their parents can’t afford...
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Suicide Predominant In White, Middle-Aged Americans
While anti-suicide campaigns have focused on teens and young
adults because they are thought to be...
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Suicide Rates Up Among American Middle-Aged Women
Suicide rates in America are rising for the first
time since the early ‘90s, and the most affected...
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US Economist Paul Krugman Wins 2008 Nobel Economics Prize
Stockholm - The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United...
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Update: U.S. Vaccine Use Increased In 2007
In June 2006, Merck’s drug Gardasil was approved by the FDA.
Gardasil is a drug designed to...
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