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| Cell Phones Could Be Linked to Brain Cancer |
Scientists brought up a new problem into discussion on Thursday because the Congress has noticed a growing health concern. Are the cell phones responsible for brain cancer?
According to Dr. Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Dr. David Carpenter, director of Institute for Health and the Environment at... |
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 E. coli is a bacterium that is found in the lower intestine of animals with warm blood. The majority of E. coli strains are harmless but some could cause food poisoning in humans. The strains that don’t make any harm are part of the normal flora of the gut and can produce vitamin K.The ability of the E. coli to survive outside the body...
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 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened a new web page entitled Hospital Compare, this week. The web page will display actual hospital death rates for heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia patients. The director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Harlan Krumholz, said that...
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 Some doctors and health care workers are afraid or feel uncomfortable when they have to participate in abortions. Many of them feel fear because of religious, social or moral objections which don’t permit them to agree to such kind of surgeries.The Bush administration obeyed the doctors’ concerns and set out a new law on Thursday through...
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A premature baby girl who had shocked Israelis when she suddenly showed signs of life after spending more than five hours in a morgue refrigerator died early on Tuesday in the northern Israeli hospital were she was born.
A senior gynaecologist who had helped deliver the 610-gram baby, born on Monday in the fifth month of her mother's...
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that they will hold a public meeting about the chemical found in baby bottles and other products. The meeting will be held next month and the environmental groups say that the chemical, known as bisphenol A, could hurt little children and animals.Still, the U.S. Food and Drug...
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 Decline in West Nile infections is over and the KPCC wants to know what can happen if a healthy person contracts the illness. Jack Raney of Upland contacted the disease and he was in a coma for weeks after the illness developed. The tragedy of getting the disease by only a bite of a mosquito has frightened a lot of people. There is also...
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India and China, where 2.5
million child deaths were recorded in 2006, need to make 'significant
strides' in health-related services for children if the UN's millenium
development goals are to be met, a UNICEF report warned Tuesday.
UNICEF said that unless India, in particular, achieved 'major
improvements in health, nutrition,...
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 Fast-food restaurants use to deliver quick meals for kids. But what exactly could be found in these menus? Study shows that 90% of these meals have more than the calories recommended on a day for one child. Many of them are also full of salt and fats!After the study made by The Center for Science in the Public Interest, it was obvious...
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 A market research company called Mintel carried out a study on over 750 sunscreens, and discovered that most of the products fail to protect the skin against the harmful rays of the Sun.For a long time, scientists advised people that it is very important to stay protected from UVB rays, as well as UVA rays. But what researchers now found...
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People who want their skin
to look smooth this summer are better off using proven methods such as
shaving and cold or warm waxing. New pulse light treatments
and laser light hair removal methods currently being offered by
cosmeticians are not as effective as their advocates make them sound,
according to Germany's consumer centre...
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 Mass Murder in Memphis Home, 6 Killed
The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other...
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