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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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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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CDC Advice For HIV Testing Still Not Followed In Many ERs
Back in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
called for virtually all patients...
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Censoring Fast-Food TV Ads Might Lower Childhood Obesity Rates
Banning fast-food advertising could lead to a decrease in
the number of overweight and obese...
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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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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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Too Little Sleep May Boost Cancer Risk
U.S. researchers claim that a proper diet and exercise enhance body weight and physical function in...
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Research Shows Possible Health Risks for Children Born through Fertility Treatments
According to a new study released by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, birth defects...
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Fertility Treatments Linked to Birth Defects, CDC Study Says
Women considering fertility treatments
should know that there might be a risk of birth defects....
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Infertility Treatment Babies Have More Birth Defects
One of the largest studies ever conducted
in the U.S. shows that infants conceived from...
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Breast Cancer Risk Up in Women with a Family History of the Disease
Women with a family history of breast cancer have a very
high risk of developing the disease even...
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Assisted Reproductive Technology May Raise Risk For Birth Defects
Babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART)
may be two to four times more likely...
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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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Burlington Is Healthiest US City, CDC Declares
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Burlington City, Vermont, was the healthiest...
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CDC: Huntington, W. Virginia Is the Unhealthiest City in the US
A new report released by the US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention places Huntington,
...
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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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Gardasil HPV Vaccine Might Protect Men Too
Thursday, Merck
and Company, the drug manufacturer behind the Gardasil HPV vaccine, revealed...
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Bone Marrow Transplants May Cure HIV
HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is such a hardy
pathogen that the concept of curing a
poor...
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U.S. Smoking Rate Drops
For the first time on record, the percentage of U.S. adults who
smoke cigarettes has fallen below...
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Merck’s HPV Vaccine Gardasil Effective in Males
According to the results of a new study
presented this week at the annual meeting of the European...
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Update: Google Tool Tracks Flu Outbreaks Faster
Fever? Headache? Sore Throat? You might
find answers to all these symptoms through a new tool as...
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Google Will Keep Track Of Flu Searches
Google, through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, is trying to help U.S. authorities fight the flu...
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Nationwide Premature Birth Report Gives States Grades For Premature Births
Each year, more than 530,000 babies are
born before 37 full weeks of gestation, statistics show....
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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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Severe Diarrhea Bacteria More Common in Hospital than Thought
A bacterium known as Clostridium Difficile or C. Diff, which
causes a drug-resistant virulent...
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A Study Finds New Ways of Detecting Heart Disease
A regular medical exam could soon contain a simple, low-cost blood test, which could help assess...
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Survey Shows More Hospital Patients Get Sick with Intestinal Infections
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and
Epidemiology reports that more hospital...
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Childhood Allergies, Asthma Problems Require More Attention
A report released last month by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has
revealed that...
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Sleep Deprived People With Hypertension Stand Higher Heart Risk
Lack of sleep is something common nowadays. Whether it’s
just a movie on our laptop or catching up...
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Women with Migraines Have Lower Breast Cancer Risk
One in four women complains of regular migraines.
But this annoying episode may have a good part:...
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Science
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DNA Damage May Predict Lung Cancer
Canadian scientists have conducted a study in proving that a genetic trait can be a reliable...
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Fertility Treatments Increase Birth Defect Risks
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a study regarding the risk of birth...
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Study: 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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A Migraine A Day Keeps Breast Cancer Away!
The good part of a migraine is that it indicates that you have a lower risk of developing breast...
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Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism
Children living in regions with higher levels of annual
rainfall may be more predisposed to...
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Rotateq Slows Down The Rotavirus In Non-Immunized Children
A vaccine against rotavirus, Rotateq, which causes diarrhea
and vomiting in thousands of children...
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Fan Use May Save Your Baby’s Life, Reduces SIDS Risk
A study in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine may offer a...
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Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To Three European Scientists
The 2008 Nobel Prize
for medicine was awarded on Monday. Two French scientists who discovered...
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HIV Origins Traced Around 1900, Much Earlier Than Believed
AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
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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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US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure
A genetic research on more than 100 families prone to autism
by Harvard researchers shed new light...
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Mars Starts Journey Into The Mysteries Of Cocoa Genome
Mars, the giant chocolate maker, is planning on solving
humanity’s cocoa crisis (yes, there is...
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The Global Warming Issue Needs To Be Addressed NOW
20 years ago, James Hansen, a highly respected NASA
scientist sounded for the first time the alarm...
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Bird Flu in France and Germany Again
French officials announced Thursday that three swans have been found dead and carrying the deadly...
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U.S.
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The Great American Smokeout Is Here! Time To Quit Smoking!
For many people trying to kick the noxious habit of smoking,
the Great American Smokeout is a...
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CDC Declares: Burlington Is Healthiest US City
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Burlington City, Vermont, was the healthiest...
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CDC Declares Vermont City the Healthiest in the U.S.
Recently,
the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have
released a...
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Statins Good for People with Normal Cholesterol Levels Too
Statins have long been prescribed for people diagnosed with
high levels of bad cholesterol in...
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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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US Diabetes Diagnoses Almost Double in 10 Years
The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes is continuously rising, reaching double the cases...
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Allergy Cases Up 18% In US Kids
More kids in the US suffered from allergies in 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by...
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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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Health Officials Urge People to Get Flu Shots
Given that
the flu season is nearing rapidly, United States health officials have...
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AAP: More Vitamin D Is Needed To Keep Kids Healthy
Vitamin D deficiency in early childhood can lead to an
increased risk for osteoporosis later in...
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Update 1: Hypertension Rates Soaring In The United States
Researchers
from the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have recently revealed
that...
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Scarce Natural Vitamin D Calls For Supplements
Pediatricians are paying close attention to how the diet influences the development of children...
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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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World
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Russia-Georgia talks "productive," next meeting planned
Geneva - All the delegations attended "constructive" talks on the Russia-Georgia conflict...
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Indonesia Launches Tsunami Early Warning System
Jakarta - A tsunami early warning system developed and funded by five donor countries began...
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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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One In Four US Teen Girls Received Merck’s HPV Vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that only 25 percent of...
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Wear Pink For The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is
dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of...
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Taiwan: Typhoon Sinlaku Kills 5 People, 9 Missing
Typhoon Sinlaku lashed Taiwan, killing at least five and
causing an estimated 6.7 million US...
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Obesity Rates Continue To Rise In 37 U.S. States
In spite of initiatives such as public service campaigns
warning about the risks extra weight...
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US’ Fight against HIV – Successful Overseas, But Not within Its Borders
The number of people being infected with HIV virus in the US is about 40 percent higher than...
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House Overwhelmingly Votes in Favor of Tobacco Regulation
US House of representative on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted
for a bill that would give the Food...
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FDA Confines Salmonella Outbreak to Mexico-Grown Peppers
US Food
and Drug Administration on Friday recommended consumers avoid only raw jalapeno
peppers...
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Wildfires Endanger Homes Near Yosemite
Two thousand homes are threatened by a wildfire that erupted near the western border of Yosemite...
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Update: Salmonella Found In Mexico-Grown Jalapeño Pepper
On Monday, The Food and Drug Administration announced it had finally found a Mexico-grown jalapeño...
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Firefighters “Turn the Corner” in Battle with California Wildfires
The thousands of firefighters and homeowners struggling to battle the numerous wildfires burning...
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FDA Inspecting Jalapeños Shipments as Salmonella Victims Near 1000
Hoping to solve the mystery of the Salmonella, investigators are now inspecting the shipments of...
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US Health Officials Expand Salmonella Probe to Other Products
With the number of salmonella infections reaching more than
850, federal health officials have...
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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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CDC: Five More States Report Salmonella Cases
Tomato-borne salmonella infections give Americans a hard
time, with the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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UN Chief: Stop Discriminating HIV+ People!
!In a speech held during a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called...
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FDA Issues Tomato Warning Following Salmonella Outbreak
As the number of U.S. states affected by salmonella food
poisoning is on the rise reaching 16 by...
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16 States Struggle with Salmonella Situation
On Saturday, federal health officials
announced that Salmonella food poisoning cases have been...
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Tomatoes-Related Salmonella Cases Rising in Texas
The number of people infected with salmonella in Texas has risen to 35 from 21 since Tuesday, the...
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15 Million Teenage Smokers In China
China said on Monday it faced an increasing problem of underage
smokers, with a number of tobacco...
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Military Helicopter with 14 Passengers Crashes in China
A Chinese military helicopter with ten injured people aboard plus four crew members crashed on...
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Santa Cruz Fire 50 Percent Contained
The weather was on the firefighters’ side these days, helping
them to contain a large part of the...
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Spinning Carnival Ride Collapses in Calif., 24 Hurt
All 24 people aboard a spinning carnival ride were hurt as the machine collapsed on Friday...
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CDC: US Faces Biggest Measles Outbreak in Seven Years
The U.S.
faces the biggest measles outbreak in seven years, the federal Centers for
Disease...
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Lawsuit against Veterans Affairs Begins
Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs insists it
has done a lot to improve healthcare...
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US Soldiers at High Risk of Developing Mental Health Problems
A report by the U.S. Army Thursday reveals that more than a quarter
of U.S. soldiers on...
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Flight Diverted to Fort Lauderdale after Family Get Sick
A flight from the Dominican
Republic to Canada
was diverted to Fort Lauderdale
overnight...
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Man In Hospital After Ricin Found In Las Vegas Motel
According to Las Vegas
police, a man who stayed in the hotel room where toxin ricin was found...
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