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An international research team announced on Wednesday that a woman from Colombia has just received the first trachea transplant which was grown by seeding a donor organ with her stem cells as to prevent her body from rejecting it. The surgery was a total success and it was made back in June. The doctors used tissue from the woman’s... |
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Australian researchers have found that calcium supplementation cuts the overall risk of bone fractures by about 12 percent, according to a new study published in the Aug. 25 issue of The Lancet. The study also underlined that people who take correctly their calcium supplements have additional protection of up to double of those who take...
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 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided, under pressure from the Congress, to outline new standards for formulating, testing and labeling over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreen drug products with ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) protection. The FDA wants manufacturers to give consumers clearer, more complete information on...
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 A new study published in the August 23rd issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has found, upon surveying some 3,000 Americans aged 57 to 85, that older people still have sex in surprisingly significant numbers. Sex with a partner in the last year was reported by 73 percent of those aged 57 to 64, 53 percent of those aged 64 to 75...
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 The chemical compound acrylamide (acrylic amide) is not linked to breast cancer, as it was previously suggested, a new comprehensive study has found. The study, presented Tuesday in Boston at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, involved around 100,000 women.The acrylamide fobia was triggered in 2002 by Swedish...
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 The Bush administration started a fight against the efforts to include children from low-income families under the insurance coverage. The State Children's Health Insurance Program, or Schip, is a 10-year-old program which was designed to provide medical insurance to children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. However,...
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 A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the August 22/29 issue, outlines that only about one quarter of all children and adolescents with high blood pressure (hypertension) seem to have been diagnosed by pediatricians. There are about 2-5 percent of children/adolescents who have the condition, but only...
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 China is now confronting with a
deadly disease that has already killed thousands of pigs. The lethal disease
seems to be caused by a new type of the blue-ear virus and is continually
spreading among the Chinese pigs. As the virus has appeared to be even more
contagious and dangerous than the initial blue-ear virus, about 68,000...
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 The Bush administration has
decided that starting with 2009 the United States’ health insurance
program Medicare will not cover anymore the cost of the so-called “preventable”
conditions, infections or just mistakes with which the patients may confront
during a hospital stay.
So, according to the new policy,
the American health...
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 The Food and Drug Administration
has warned people about not giving cough and cold medicine to their children if
they are under 2 years old. They should do this only at the doctor’s
purposefully order. This announcement comes after an overall review of the
medicines’ safety and effectiveness for youngsters. However, FDA has said...
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 In Ireland, an old woman has
already died and other two people are seriously suffering in the hospital
because of an outbreak of the Escherichia coli bacteria (better known as
E.coli), which seems to be related to a Paisley, Scotland, supermarket of the
Morrisons chain. The woman who was 66-year-old had eaten cold meat bought...
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