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Japanese woman travelling from US tests positive for influenza
Tokyo - A Japanese woman who arrived at Tokyo's airport from Los Angeles tested...
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Number of suspected swine flu cases rises to six in Israel
Tel Aviv - The number of suspected swine flu cases in Israel has risen to six, two of which...
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What is swine flu?
Stockholm - The current outbreak of swine flu which has caused alarm around the world is a...
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Spain confirms second case of swine flu
Madrid- A second case of swine flu has been diagnosed in Spain, Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez...
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Kids with ADHD Taking Meds Do Better in School
Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder who are treated score higher on math and...
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Three test negative for swine flu as Hong Kong goes on guard
Hong Kong - Three patients tested negative for swine flu in Hong Kong as the...
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Stem Cell Therapy May Reverse Symptoms of MS
Findings of a preliminary study give hope to people suffering from multiple sclerosis showing that...
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Parents Have One More Reason To Worry About: Video Gaming
A study by the National Institute on Media and the Family and Iowa State University concludes that...
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Less than Half of US Women Screened for Chlamydia
A study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that less than half of women are being...
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Heart Disease Patients Going Through Depression At Risk Of Heart Failure
Heart disease patients going through depression are at greater risk for heart failure, according to...
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Harris Teeter Recalls Pistachios over Salmonella Concerns
North Carolina-based grocery food chain Harris Teeter announced over the weekend that it is...
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Sprout Recall in 11 US States over Listeria Concerns
Connecticut-based Amalgamated Produce Inc. announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily recalling...
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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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Immunotherapy against pollen allergy can help prevent asthma
Hamburg, Germany - Spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere - and with it, a time of...
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Acid Reflux Drugs Do Not Improve Asthma
A new study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treating...
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Belly Fat Tied to Increased Risk for Restless Legs Syndrome
Excess fat around the waistline has long been blamed for increasing the risk of heart disease,...
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Nicotine Replacement Therapy Might Help Smokers Quit After All
People who are not ready to quit smoking right now, but they want to reduce their smoking are twice...
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April – The National Child Abuse Prevention Month
This April marks the 26th anniversary of the National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a month...
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Elan, Wyeth Stop Trial Using the Highest Dose of Alzheimer’s Drug
Drugmaker Elan and US partner Wyeth announced Thursday they have stopped part of a Phase III...
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FDA Clears Ixiaro for Japanese Encephalitis
The Us Food and Drug Administration said Monday it approved Ixiaro, a vaccine designed to prevent...
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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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Viral infections carry lingering heart risks
Exercise usually helps strengthen the heart but after a bout of flu or another viral...
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Teva Gets FDA Approval for Marketing Topamax Tablets
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said the Food and Drug Administration has given its approval...
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ADHD Kids Much Less Consistent in Their Response Times
New research published in the journal Child Neuropsychology suggests that children with...
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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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Eli Lilly’s Symbyax Gets FDA Approval for Treatment-Resistant Depression
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly’s Symbyax, a combination of...
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Spinal Cord Stimulation May Improve Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Patients
A new study released Thursday by US researchers suggests that, when electrically stimulated the...
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3-year-old in Vietnam dies of bird flu
Hanoi - A 3-year-old Vietnamese boy has died of avian influenza after four...
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Boy in Vietnam tests positive for bird flu
Hanoi - A Vietnamese boy has tested positive for the avian influenza virus, the...
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HIV - Among the Greatest Battles In The History of Humanity
A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature confirms the fact that the battle against the HIV...
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U.S.
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New York finds more probable cases, more schools closed
New York - Authorities confirmed Thursday a total of 49 swine flu cases in New York City and...
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Swine flu suspected of inflicting Marine
Washington - A US Marine is suspected of having contracted swine flu and has been quarantined at...
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US braces for worse from swine flu
Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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New York confirms 44 swine flu cases, expects more
New York - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that 44 swine flu cases have been confirmed in New...
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Rabid Bobcat Scratches Three People in Arizona Bar
Several people were attacked out of the blue by a bobcat while they were having their favorite...
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Fewer Americans Dying From First Heart Attack
Researchers from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University in New York City...
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STDs At All-Time High, But Chlamydia Sets Record
Although previous reports have shown that sexually transmitted diseases are on decline in...
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California Experts Puzzled By Mysterious Pelican Deaths
An estimated 270 dead or ailing California brown pelicans have been found in recent weeks from...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Flu Strain Resistant To Antiviral Treatment Found
Physicians have found a recently mutated strain of flu that resists the most commonly...
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Mystery disease leaves California pelicans bruised, disoriented
Los Angeles - A mystery disease is striking California's huge flocks of pelicans, which are being...
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FDA Says Epilepsy Drugs Should Carry Suicide Warnings
The US Food and Drug Administration is ordering companies that make epilepsy drugs to add warning...
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FDA Intends To Modify Consumer Advice On Fish
Since March 2004, the federal government has urged women of childbearing years, pregnant women,...
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Get Your Flu Shot! Flu Vaccine, The Best Option For Protection Against Influenza
In an attempt to encourage people to get
their flu shot, the Centers for Disease Control and...
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The National Influenza Vaccination Week Is Here
National Influenza Vaccination Week is set for Dec. 8 – 12. Therefore,
Americans are all invited...
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Google Releases Its Newest Tool: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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Veterans Day Celebrated on November 11
Both a federal holiday and a state holiday
in all states, Veterans Day, a day dedicated to the...
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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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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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Specials
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Depression Boosts Risk for Heart Failure
Heart disease patients who are depressed are at a greater danger of developing heart failure,...
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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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New Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Proves Successful in Mice
A study published in the 20 March issue of the journal Science concluded that by electrically...
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Unhappy Marriages May Hurt Women’s Heart, Literally
Marital stress raises health risks for women, but nor for men, according to a new study presented...
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Healthy Men Should Take Finasteride to Prevent Prostate Cancer
Healthy men who want to prevent prostate cancer should begin taking finasteride, a drug used to...
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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week Is Here!
February 23 opens the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, an entire week dedicated to eating...
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Psoriasis Drug Raptiva Tied to PML Deaths
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva has...
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University of Pennsylvania on High Alert Over Meningitis Cases
University of Pennsylvania students are on high alert following three cases of meningococcal...
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U.S. Court Denies Autism Case
Thursday, a United States special court denied a case that had been brought forth by three...
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Bayer Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Correct Misleading Information about Its Contraceptive
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has announced the decision to introduce a new advertising...
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Did You Know that Smoking Pot Raises Testicular Cancer Risk?
Men who smoke marijuana have a higher risk of testicular cancer than those who do not smoke,...
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Nigeria Tainted Syrup Responsible for 84 Deaths
Nigerian officials have announced earlier this week that 84 children have died and 27 have...
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Enoki Mushrooms Recalled Over Fear of Listeria Contamination
Phillips Mushroom Farms of Kennett Square, Pa., announced the decision to recall 3.5 ounce, 4...
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Pfizer Ends Phase III Trial Of Pancreatic Cancer Drug Axitinib
Pfizer Inc. halted a Phase III study of its experimental drug axitinib designed to cure advanced...
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Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise In MS Trial
People suffering from multiple sclerosis have given hope once again thanks to a clinical...
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Zoloft, Lexapro – Significantly Better Than Other Antidepressants
New research published online Jan. 29 in the journal The Lancet concluded that Pfizer Inc’s...
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Peanut Corporation of America Knowingly Shipped Contaminated Products
The recent salmonella outburst that infected 500 people in 43 states and it is responsible for the...
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Mercury Found in High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Many foods and drinks rich in high-fructose corn syrup were found to contain mercury, according...
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Despite Economic Distress, Bill Gates Donates Money For A Good Cause: Polio
In a time of economic distress, Bill Gates has donated through its foundation $255 million for...
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Jobs Needs His Privacy, But The Media Is Watching…
While half the globe is digging for clues on what the serious health problem forcing Steve Jobs...
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CDC Reports Rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Cases of sexually transmitted diseases are at all-time high in the United States, not...
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PAD Sufferers Might Benefit from Treadmill Walking
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) sufferers are now given the hope of a better life without having...
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Sleeping 7 Hours Or More Protects You From Common Cold
A new study suggests the connection between lack of sleep and common cold is stronger than...
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Vicks VapoRub Might Harm Your Child!
No kid under the age of four should be given the controversial cough and cold medicines, the...
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Hormone Replacing Therapy Might Affect Women’s Brain Size
A recent research pointed out that women that follow HRT, or hormone-replacing therapy, might...
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California Experts Puzzled by Mysterious Pelican Deaths
An estimated 270 dead or ailing California brown pelicans have been found in recent weeks from...
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Antipsychotics in Alzheimer’s Patients – Potentially Fatal After Extensive Use
First of all, Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease with no known cure. Except for...
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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Remedy For Parkinson’s Patients?
Deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life in...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome May Be Linked to Childhood Trauma
Children who are exposed to sexual, physical or psychological abuse are more likely to develop...
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Blood-Cloth Preventer Prasugrel To Be Reviewed
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it needs more time to review Eli Lilly and Co.'s...
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People
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Robin Williams to Undergo Heart Surgery, Cancels Shows
Robin Williams is in need of heart surgery and is required to cancel the rest of his one-man...
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Three Retained In Travolta Extortion Plot
Police in the Bahamas have arrested three people in connection with the alleged plot to extort...
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Jeremy Piven Talks About His Mercury Poisoning
Actor Jeremy Piven, who pulled out of David Mamet’s Broadway play...
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Autopsy Completed on Jett Travolta
John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, died last week on Friday after he had suffered a...
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A Lot of Grief Left after Jett Travolta’s Death
John Travolta and Kelly Preston posted a message on the Web on Sunday saying that they are in a lot...
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston Devastated by Son Jett’s Mysterious Death
Authorities said that John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, passed away on Friday in the Bahamas...
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Piven Leaves Play Due to High Levels of Mercury
Actor Jeremy Piven left the cast of the popular Broadway revival of David Mamet’s...
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Piven's 'Mercury Poisoning' Caused By Sushi and Chinese Herbs
Jeremy Piven is actually very sick, his doctor insisted on revealing amid reports the...
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Columbo Star Peter Falk Is a Victim of Alzheimer’s Disease
Catherine Falk claims her 81-year-old acting legend best known for his playing detective “Columbo...
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Drugs Are a Losing Game for Singer Amy Winehouse
Tabloids’ favorite girl and performer Amy Winehouse should have better gone to rehab than writing a...
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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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Legendary Actor Charlton Heston Dies at 84
The actor best known for his roles as Ben-Hur, Moses, or Michelangelo
died Saturday at his Beverly...
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Jessica Simpson Released From Hospital
Jessica Simpson is reportedly feeling "much better" and was released from the hospital...
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Legendary Patients Rights Advocate Barbara Seaman Died
Female patients’ rights advocate Barbara Seaman, 72, has died of complications related to lung...
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John Ritter's Family Sues Doctors
Johnathan Southworth "John" Ritter still cannot rest in peace more than four years after...
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Anna Nicole’s Son Killed By Eight-Drug Cocktail
A year and three months after his mysterious death, the son of late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole...
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Rosanne Cash Goes Under The Knife
Country music singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash announced the cancellation of her future concert...
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Robert Goulet Passes Away at 73
Broadway actor Robert Goulet passed away Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, aged 73. He had been...
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Robert Goulet Awaiting Lung Transplant
Robert Goulet is hospitalized and urgently needs a lung transplant but a suitable donor has not...
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Technology
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Apple Board Offered No New Info On Jobs During Annual Meeting
Steve Jobs may not make the world go round, but he does have life and death power over Apple...
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Baidu’s Revealed Search Ad Scandal
China's Internet search leader Baidu said on Friday it will overhaul operations due to the fact...
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Google Releases Its Newest Service: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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MacBook Pros May Be Affected By Faulty Nvidia Chips
Back in July, Nvidia issued a filing to the US Securities
and Exchange commission, taking a $150...
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Sergey Brin, Google’s Co-Founder, Writes About Parkinson’s Risk
In a post on its newly opened blog, Too, Sergey Brin, one of the two
co-founders of Google, has...
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Internet Explorer 8: Crash, Restart, Crash
As promised last year, Microsoft has launched the first Internet
Explorer 8 beta version, the...
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NBC Versus Apple: Who Wins, Who Loses?
In case you don’t know what the latest hot news in the
technology world is over this week end,...
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Science
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Scientists Decode Genetic Map Of Cold Virus
Science moves one step closer to finding an effective treatment for the common cold, as University...
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Zoloft, Lexapro Are Significantly Better Than Other Antidepressants
New research published online Jan. 29 in the journal The Lancet concluded that Pfizer Inc’s...
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Too Little Sleep May Triple The Risk Of Catching A Cold
Getting more sleep is always good for our health. Whether it prevents heart disease and...
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Obese Women at High Risk of Ovarian Cancer, Study Says
It is a known fact that obesity has something to do cancer. New research appearing in the journal...
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Early Trauma May Lead to CFS in Adulthood
Children facing trauma may develop chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in their adulthood, according...
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Two Enzymes Might Help Predict Ovarian Cancer Outcome
A woman’s chance of surviving ovarian cancer may be linked to levels of two proteins, US...
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Sutdy Finds Snorers Burn More Calories
A new U.S. study found that people with the worst sleep
apnoea symptoms burned 373 more calories...
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Study Says Sugar Can Be Addictive
Researchers at Princeton University have come to a strange conclusion: sugar can be addictive....
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Harvard Scientists Unravel The Secret Of Aging
As we get older, our health becomes our worst enemy. What’s
the secret of living a longer healthy...
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Study: CT Scans Nearly As Accurate As Angiography
New research published in this week’s New England Journal of
Medicine reveals that noninvasive CT...
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Study: 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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Marine Mammals At Risk: Supreme Court Overturns Sonar Limitations
The latest court ruling over the use of mid-frequency navy
sonar off the coast of California...
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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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Anxiety In Children Better Treated with Combined Therapy
A recent study shows that children suffering from anxiety disorder manifest better results when...
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Energy Drinks? You’d Better Avoid Them, Scientists Say
Have you wondered how many people consume energy drinks on a daily basis, or even more often? Or...
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Update: Stem Cells Research Could Become Safer
Researchers took one more step toward so-called regenerative
medicine by developing a safer way of...
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Schizophrenia Is Still Basically Unknown Territory
On Wednesday, the online issue of the journal Nature featured information on recent scientific...
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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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A New Patch To Fight Traveler’s Diarrhea
According to a study published in the medical journal the
Lancet, a patch impregnated with the...
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Jet Lag? Not Anymore! Simply Don't Eat!
Researchers for the Science journal have presented in the
May 23 issue a study about the causes...
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Scientists May Have Found Drug to Treat Alzheimer’s
A team of German scientists has devised a new drug to fight
the most common form of dementia -...
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Causes of Human Depression Studied in Mice
One of the most common and mysterious mental illnesses, depression, might have found an explanation...
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World
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Saudi Arabia will not bar pilgrims for fear of swine flu
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia will not bar pilgrims from countries that have reported cases of swine...
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New case of swine flu brings to five number in Italy
Rome - Italy's Health Ministry Tuesday confirmed a new case of swine flu, bringing to five...
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Japanese teenager suspected of swine flu after return from Canada
Tokyo - A Japanese woman arriving from the United States Thursday tested negative...
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New Zealand school isolates 31 swine flu suspects
Wellington - Twenty-seven students from a New Zealand college orchestra and four teachers are being...
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First suspected swine flu case in Lithuania
Vilnius - Lithuania's health authorities were awaiting the results of tests Thursday in what could...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Five Austrians fall ill with possible swine flu
Vienna - One Austrian woman was "likely" infected with swine flu and four others are...
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WHO: China Investigates Several Suspicious Flu Cases
China is investigating several suspicious cases involving influenza-like symptoms but has not...
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45 suspected and confirmed swine flu cases in New York City
New York - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that 28 cases of swine flu have been...
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German authorities tell airline crews to report sick passengers
Frankfurt - Authorities at Frankfurt international airport, Germany's biggest air hub, on Monday...
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Taiwan checks suspected cases of swine flu
Taipei - Taiwan on Monday was checking at least seven suspected cases of swine...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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EU calls emergency talks as Spain confirms swine flu case
Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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China ready to add to economic stimulus, Wen says
Beijing - Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday said China has made contingency...
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Lusting for power, Fritzl caused permanent suffering
Vienna ( - Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl was mainly driven by an abnormal yearning to exert...
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Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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The Gates Foundation Joins Polio Fight
The Gates Foundation together with the governments of Germany and the United Kingdom and other...
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CDC Probing Salmonella Outbreak In The United States
Just months after salmonella Saintpaul caused more than 1,400 illnesses all over the United...
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China Authorities Take Control Measures After Bird Flu Death
It was reported that the woman, who was identified as Huang Yanqing, has bought nine ducks at a...
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Sleeping At The Wheel Can Prove Fatal
Munich - Driving when drowsy is a feeling that every motorist knows. The danger is greatest on long...
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Baby girl hospitalized in Hong Kong with mild form of bird flu
The infant, who normally lives in Shenzhen in southern China, was diagnosed with the H9N2 strain of...
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Cholera Epidemic In Zimbabwe Passes 1,000 Death Toll
Cholera is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium...
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Indonesia confirms two new bird flu cases, death toll rises to 113
Jakarta - A 2-year-old Indonesian girl died from bird flu, raising the country's world-leading...
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World AIDS Day Is Here! Get Tested For HIV!
World AIDS Day is a perfect occasion for everyone to remember that health means everything. But how...
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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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World Health Organization Investigates Mysterious Disease
An infection that has killed 3 people in South
Africa worries the World Health
Organization,...
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An Unknown Disease Takes its Toll on Three South African People
On Friday, the
World Health Organization (WHO), which is an United Nations health agency, has...
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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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Former Mayor Of Boston Recovering From Faint
Former Boston
mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn is recovering from recent
collapse...
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2 St. Louis Hospitals in Quarantine after Chemical Alert
Eight to ten people were admitted on Saturday in several St. Louis hospitals, after being exposed...
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