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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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WHO earmarks 15 billion dollars to curb drug-resistant TB by 2015
Beijing - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to...
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China launches partnership to fight drug-resistant TB
Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates...
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Ventricular Reconstruction No Better Than Bypass Alone in Heart Failure
Ventricular reconstruction to improve symptoms in people with heart failure, a procedure often...
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69 Percent of Americans Urged to Limit Their Salt Intake
Most Americans over the age of twenty should limit the amount of salt they consume daily to 1,500...
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Lowering Blood Glucose Levels in Critically Ill Patients Might Kill Them
A new study reported online March 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that lowering...
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Eat Less Red or Processed Meat! Live Longer!
Eating too much red meat might put you at risk of dying early from cancer, heart disease and...
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Three out of Four Emergency Response Recruits Is either Overweight or Obese
A study by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard...
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Is PSA Test Really Important for Prostate Cancer Prevention?
Many studies have tried to find an answer to this question, but the majority of them ended in...
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Scientists Make Astonishing Breakthrough in the Flight against Flu
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in...
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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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Vitamin Pills Show Little Benefit in Reducing Heart Disease Risk
Multivitamins taken on daily basis don’t seem to lower the risk of developing heart...
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Most Advertised Cigarette Brands Also On Top of Teenagers’ Preferences
The most heavily advertized brands of cigarettes, Marlboro, Newport and Camel also seem to be on...
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Multivitamins Are Far From Bringing So Much Benefits
According to a new study, taking a multivitamin does not help you reduce your risk of developing...
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Breast Cancer Risk Drops after the End of Hormone Replacement Therapy
According to a new study, women that follow HRT, or hormone-replacing therapy, have an increased...
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Premature Babies More Prone to Autism
According to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics, children who are...
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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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Infant Suffocation Death Rates Increase Fourth Times In 20 Years
A new study in the journal Pediatrics reveals that infant mortality rates caused by accidental...
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Is Preventive Mastectomy Necessary or Not?
According to findings published in the March 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a preventive procedure to...
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California Hospital Death Rates for 2006/2007 Released
In an attempt to help improve health care and people looking for better places to treat their...
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Smoking Death Rates – The Highest in Kentucky and West Virginia
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in its journal Morbidity and...
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California Hospitals’ Death Rates Vary Widely
According to a recent study that looked at mortality rates for California hospitals between 2006...
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Pregnant Women and Newborn Babies Face Higher Risk in Developing World
According to a recent report released by the UNICEF, pregnancy is 300 times deadlier for women in...
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Quit Smoking to Prevent Colon Cancer! Smoking Increases the Risk of Colorectal Cancer
Smoking increases the risk of getting colon
cancer by about 18 percent and the risk of dying from...
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How Much Effective Are Colonoscopies at Preventing Death from Colorectal Cancer?
A new study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopy
in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC)...
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Obesity Drug Data Shows Promise
The experimental obesity drug Qnexa helped patients lose an average of 9.2 percent of their weight...
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Gene Mutation Protects Against the Negative Effects of a High-Fat Diet
A genetic mutation found in a small group of people might protect their heart against the effects...
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Preterm Babies More Prone To Cerebral Palsy
Babies born earlier than 37 weeks of gestation are three times more likely to have cerebral palsy...
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Women, Less Likely To Survive Severe Heart Attacks
Although equal, there are some anatomical and biological differences between men and women. These...
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One Third Of Americans Don’t Meet Minimum Levels Of Physical Activity
A report by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention found that approximately...
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However Cute, Pets Still Can Hurt Their Owners
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that many Americans,...
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Cut Back on Red, Processed Meat Intake in Order to Live Longer
Doctors always advise patients to consume lots of fruits, vegetables and white meat in order to...
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Multivitamins Benefit against Cancer Questioned Once Again
Multivitamins taken on daily basis don’t seem to lower the risk of developing cancer in...
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Study: Forests in Western U.S. and Canada Are Dying
More and more trees in Western U.S. and Canada forest are dying as a consequence of the warming of...
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Smoking Bans Linked To Hospital Admissions For Heart Attacks
Hospital admissions for a heart attack were cut considerably in the city of Pueblo, Colorado, after...
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Vermont Ranked Healthiest State, Louisiana Least Healthy
Health continues to be an important issue for the United States,
as recent studies have shown that...
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Can AIDS Epidemic Be Stopped?
How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to
be more frequent than ever nowadays....
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Regular Exercise And Sleep Hours Found To Halve Women’s Cancer Risk
Lack of sleep is something common nowadays. Whether it’s
just a movie on our laptop or...
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Patient Receives New Windpipe Made From Owen Stem Cells
Some European doctors have performed the first trachea transplant using a woman’s own stem cells...
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Most States Get Ds for Preterm Birth Rate
The United
States’ high rate of premature births has earned the
state a D, according to the...
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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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Depression Might Double Risk Of Preterm Delivery
Depression during pregnancy was found to double the chance of a woman to deliver her baby before...
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Pregnancy Depression And Preterm Delivery Go Hand-In-Hand
Mothers-to-be who are depressed during pregnancy
have a higher risk of premature delivery, a new...
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Depressed Pregnant Women Are Twice As Likely To Deliver Before Term
Depression during pregnancy raises considerably a woman’s
chance to deliver her baby before term,...
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U.S.A Ranking Low In Infant Mortality Rate
Recent data from the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention shows that infant deaths declined...
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25% Of U.S. Teen Girls Received Protection Against Cervical Cancer
An estimated 25 percent of American teenage girls received
at least one dose of the Gardasil...
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The Nobel Prize Rekindles 25 Years Old Controversy
On Monday, the
Nobel committee awarded the famous prize to Dr. Luc Montagnier, a...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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Number Of Americans Living With HIV Tops 1.1 Million, CDC Says
An estimated 1.1 million Americans have contracted the AIDS virus, the Centers for Disease Control...
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Eprex Under Close Scrutiny After German Trial Study
A Johnson & Johnson anemia drug tested in Germany on a panel of stroke patients is...
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Homosexuals, Blacks Bear the Heaviest Burden of HIV Infections
A new report on HIV infections released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Fish-Oil Can Reduce Heart-Failure Mortality Rate
A study conducted by a team of 357 Italian cardiology
centers has found that omega-3...
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Fish Oil Supplements Can Reduce Mortality Risk in Heart Failure Patients
The fact that fish oil and its significant component, omega-3 fatty acids can improve brain power,...
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New Gorilla Population Found In Congo
Today researchers
happily announced they found 25,000 western lowland gorillas in the
Republic of...
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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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2008 Kids Count Data Book
The situation of children in the United States shows slight signs of
improvement from 2000 to...
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Death Gap Expands between Educated and Less Educated in the US
Being educated could boost your chances to live longer new
research suggests.
American...
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Report Warns on Deadly Effects of Ozone Pollution
Short-term exposure to current levels of ozone pollution is
directly linked to poor health in...
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Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US
Americans’ life expectancy is stagnating or falling as
obesity, high blood pressure, different...
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Rock Stars Rock, But They Die Younger: Study
You would not believe it by looking at the Rolling Stones however, a new study says rock stars are...
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