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NSAIDs Don’t Prevent Alzheimer’s
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory pain drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen may delay the...
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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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3000 Vets at Risk of HIV and Hepatitis after Unsterile Procedure
More than 3,000 patients undergoing certain routine medical procedures at Miami’s VA...
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Mixing Plavix with Stomach Medicines Raises Risk of Death By 25 Percent
Mixing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s anti-clotting Plavix, also known as clopidrogel, with...
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MRSA Infections Acquired in Hospitals’ ICUs Fall By 50 Percent
Cases of infection with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquired in hospitals’...
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Deep Brain Stimulation Useful For Parkinson’s Patients
Deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life in...
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New Health Program Asks Better Screening for Veteran’s Brain Injury
A new program released through a government report asks the military to do better brain scans on...
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Physical Brain Injuries In Veterans Have Long-Term Effects
For years, it was believed that the shell-shock syndrome experienced by many Vietnam War veterans...
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Report Calls For More Screening Of Brain Injury In Military Personnel
A report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine,
a government advisory group that studies...
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New Findings About Breast Cancer
A new study that looked at more than 287,000 women and took into account their mammogram habits...
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Obese Older Women Have an Increased Risk of Breast Cancer
A series of studies have shown that being obese or even
overweight may boost a person’s risk of...
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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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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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One in Seven Female US Vets Reports Sexual Trauma
A report released Tuesday at a medical conference in San
Diego by the VA’s National Center for...
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Inhalers May Increase Risk Of Heart Death
Certain lung-disease medications used by millions of people suffering from emphysema and bronchitis...
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Compensation To Rise for Veterans with Brain Injuries
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Monday that
it will more than quadruple disability...
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Common COPD Drugs Increase Risk Of Heart Attack
However efficient drugs may be for treating one condition,
it is no longer a secret that they can...
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Physicians Don’t Display Enough Empathy To Patients, Study Finds
The findings of a new study show that surgeons and cancer specialists seldom show empathy to...
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Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis Patients
Arthroscopic knee surgery is no better than exercise,
physiotherapy and painkillers for people...
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Suicide Rates Higher Among Young Male Veterans
A report released by the American
Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that the suicide rate...
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Treadmill Workouts Improve Walking Long After Stroke
Walking on the treadmill three times a week can be beneficial to stroke survivors by rewiring parts...
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Treadmill Exercise Can Improve Walking In Stroke Survivors
Exercising on treadmill helped stroke survivors improve their mobility and physical conditioning by...
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Stent Surgery Showed Similar Results Compared With Drugs
Angioplasty or stent surgery may provide more
short-term relief for some patients that suffer from...
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War Vets At Higher Risk Of Alcohol Abuse After Combat
US
soldiers returning from Iraq
and Afghanistan
wars turned to alcohol most probably to cope...
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“America’s Best Hospitals” for 2008
U.S. News & World Report comes to the aid of patients
all over the US revealing
its...
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VA to Warn Veterans about Chantix’s Suicidal Effects
Pfizer’s Chantix is once again in the center of attention
but not in a good way, following the...
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Hypoglycemia Worsens Diabetics’ Risk of Heart Disease
A new study comes to support the idea that diabetics have
high chances of dying because of heart...
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VA Staffer Involved in Email Scandal Testifies
Norma Perez, an employee with the post-traumatic stress
disorder program at the Olin E. Teague...
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Troops To Be Treated for Free by Private Therapists
As the U.S.
military is short on therapists, thousands of private counselors have decided
to...
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Study Says Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Are Depressed
An independent study released Thursday by the Rand Corp.
reveals that 20 percent of military...
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U.S.
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Back in US, Obama turns to domestic issues
Washington - US President Barack Obama put the spotlight back on his domestic agenda Thursday after...
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Obama in Baghdad, warns of tough times ahead
Baghdad - US President Barack Obama warned of difficult times ahead for Iraq on Tuesday,...
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Celebrating Centennial, the NAACP Reviews Its Priorities
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the oldest civil rights group in...
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US Army Faced With Record Suicide Rates
Having to face the stress of ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the long overseas tours...
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Hillary Clinton to Accept Obama’s Proposition and Become Secretary of State
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will most likely be designated secretary of state by...
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Gulf War Syndrome Is Real, Congress-Backed Panel Concludes
A research carried out by a scientific panel mandated by the Congress has reached the conclusion...
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Medicare Part D Enrollment Kicked Off
Beginning Monday,
November 17, American citizens aged 65 or older have six weeks to enroll for...
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Bush Marks His Final Veterans Day in Office, Re-Dedicates Intrepid Museum
President George W. Bush marked his last
Veterans Day as president at the rededication ceremony of...
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Bush marks Veterans Day at rededication of aircraft carrier museum
Washington - US President George W Bush on Tuesday honoured members of the US military aboard the...
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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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US Democrats hope for big gains in Congress
Washington - No matter who the next resident of the White House is, his ability to institute his...
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Specials
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Microsoft To Release Windows 7 On October 3, Report Says
A recent report on a Microsoft partner blog has recently revealed that the Redmond giant...
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Oprah’s OWN Cable Network Gets New CEO
Despite a slow economic environment, Oprah Winfrey’s media empire continues to expand taking...
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NZ Man Buys MP3 Player Containing Confidential U.S. Military Files
A man walks into a thrift store…and buys secret military files for only $18?
It...
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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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Sarah Palin and John McCain’s Long Awaited Post-Election Interviews
John McCain and Sarah Palin are scheduled to offer their
first post-election TV interviews this...
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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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Katie Holmes’ Broadway Debut
For the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," British director Simon...
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Bruce Springsteen and Billy Idol Sing for Obama
Celebrity supporters are aplenty for Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama and rock...
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Update: Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis
If people suffering from osteoarthritis were looking at arthroscopic knee surgery as their...
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Natalie Portman Shouts “Action!” to Her Directing Career
Leon’s protégée and wunderkind of the silver screen Natalie Portman is all grown up and directing...
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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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'Tropic Thunder' Still The King Of Box Office, With 16 Million
Despite the controversies it has caused, or probably,
because of them, the action comedy “Tropic...
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Country Star John Rich Supports McCain With Concert
John Rich, one half of the duo “Big and Rich,” staged a
concert for Republican presidential...
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Honoring Our Heroes: Memorial Day Today
Today is Memorial Day, the day in which we honor our fallen ones who died while serving the country...
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Robbie Knievel Breaks Evel’s Kings Island Record
America’s
greatest daredevil alive, Robbie Knievel, successfully jumped 24 delivery
trucks...
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VA Staffer’s E-Mail Calls for Fewer PTSD Diagnoses
An employee with the post-traumatic stress disorder program at
a medical facility for veterans in...
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Ibuprofen Found to Decrease Alzheimer’s Risk
Taking ibuprofen for more than five years may decrease the
risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,...
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Report: Mental Disorders Affect 1 in 5 War Veterans
The latest research into the consequences of the Iraq or Afghanistan
war concluded that 300,000 of...
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Dallas VA Hospital Shuts Psychiatric Wing after 4th Suicide
The Dallas VA Medical Center has decided to close its
psychiatric wing after a fourth mentally ill...
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Unexpected: Project Runway Wins Peabody Award
One Peabody
award for excellence in radio and television broadcasting went to an...
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CBS Forced To Fire News Staffers All Over US
The massive staff layoffs reportedly being made at CBS-owned TV stations in Los Angeles, San...
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Movies
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'Paul Blart' Repeats Box Office Success
With only two new wide releases, moviegoers couldn't get enough of "Paul Blart: Mall Cop"...
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Alleged Stalker Ordered To Keep Away From Tom Cruise
A troubled Iraq war veteran was ordered by a California judge to stay away from actor Tom Cruise...
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Daniel Craig, Princes Harry and William Discuss Bond Favorites
“Quantum of Solace” made its world premiere Wednesday night
in London, with
Princes William and...
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Spike Lee's film is no miracle says Vatican newspaper
Vatican City - The Vatican's newspaper has panned Spike Lee's Miracle at St Anna as...
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'Tropic Thunder' Enjoys Third Week Of Box Office Glory
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., action comedy "Tropic Thunder"...
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Update: With 16 Million, Tropic Thunder Leads The Weekend Box Office
Neither Death Race, nor House Bunny were able to knock off
Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” from the...
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Batman Is No Longer Number One
While "Pineapple Express" failed at knocking
"The Dark Knight" from its first...
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Tropic Thunder Reigns This Weekend's Box Office Revenues
Tropic Thunder, the Ben Stiller gig which opened this weekend, has dethroned The Dark Night to grab...
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“Tropic Thunder” Leads The Friday Box Office
Apparently, Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” will end the box
office reign of “The Dark Knight”, at...
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“The Clone Wars”: A Movie Only for “Star Wars” Fans?
Although all covered up in CGI animation, “Star Wars: The
Clone Wars” may be considered the most...
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Stiller's “Tropic Thunder”: Humor And Controversy
It’s quite sad that humor has to be so obvious nowadays.
Comedies seem to have lost the ability to...
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“The Clone Wars” - Too Much of a Clone
Chronologically set between Star Wars Episode II and III,
“Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of...
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“The X-Files” Still Seeking the Truth 6 Years On
“The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” the second feature film
reuniting series veterans Chris Carter,...
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Former Marine Gets Life for Gruesome Hollywood Slayings
A former Marine who beheaded a retired screenwriter before murdering his neighbor was given two...
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Brian d'Arcy James Lands Broadway 'Shrek' Role
The Broadway version of "Shrek," Dreamworks' popular franchise, has finally found its...
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The 15-Hour WWII
Filmmaker Ken Burns combines art and history once again to
give the PBS audience a 15-hour...
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World
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Prince Harry to visit New York on first official engagement
London - Britain's Prince Harry will travel to New York on his first official overseas engagement...
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Cassano Object Of Desire In Italian Transfer Market
Rome - Three days into the Italian winter market, and with as many weeks left to its end, Sampdoria...
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Georgia's Saakashvili Gambled And Lost Big In Ossetia War
Tbilisi - "Georgia would have to be crazy to go to war with Russia, and we are not...
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World War I recalled in poignant 90th anniversary tributes
London/Paris - Commemorations to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I were held in...
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Old and young unite as Britain honours victims of war
London - At the packed Remembrance Day service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for War...
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British World War I veteran dies aged 108 in Australia
London - One of the five remaining British veterans of World War I has died at the age of 108 in...
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Controversies Fade and Legends Grow as Masses Mourn Haider
Vienna - Joerg Haider was one of Austria's most divisive political figures, but his memorial...
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US Recruiting War Veterans for Paralympics
Beijing - "It is as if I have been given a second chance," American swimmer Melissa...
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Political Theatre in Denver: Oprah, Kanye West and Clinton
Washington - With Democrat Barack Obama losing ground steadily in opinion surveys against his...
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Senator John McCain To Roar Into Motorcycle Haven In South Dakota
Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely town of Sturgis,
South Dakota,
on Monday to rub...
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Bush Signs $162 billion War Spending Bill
United States President George W. Bush signed on Monday a $162 billion war spending plan which will...
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Fewer Members in Veterans’ Clubs
Some of the leaders of Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) and
American Legion organizations have...
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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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Election Incidents in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, the upcoming elections seem to bring tensions
among the involved parties. Apparently...
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VA Secretary Talks about Veteran Suicides
Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake acknowledged the fact that the agency must increase its...
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Berkeley V. The Marines: Out With The ‘Unwelcome Intruders’
What is the latest one-on-one
combat on the U.S. agenda this week? Berkeley v. the Marines of...
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U.S. Oldest WWI Veteran Dies at 109
J. Russell Coffey, the oldest World War I surviving veteran, passed away in Ohio at 109. He died on...
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Vietnam Veterans Celebrated on Sunday
For those who fought in the Vietnam war, Sunday was a very emotional day: they commemorated the...
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Atlantic City Mayor Quits, Interim Takes Over
Democratic politician and the mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Mr. Robert W. Levy, Sr., usually...
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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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Iraq War Debate Ends With Protests in Washington
Earlier this week, the top US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker...
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Idaho Senator Expected to Step Down
Larry Craig, the US Senior Senator from Idaho who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct earlier this...
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Concert for Diana, A Happy Celebration
Concert for Diana was a great success as tens of thousands gathered to celebrate the late Princess...
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