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 U.S. researchers announced on Monday that the babies who are conceived by using in vitro fertilization are more likely to develop birth defects than those babies who are conceived through a natural way. The birth defects include cardiac problems which might act like a hole in the heart. Researchers led by epidemiologist Jennita Reefhuis...
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 This year doctors recommend us to take the flu shots which are now available for any age, even for the ones age 18 and younger. Still, infants 6 months old and younger are totally forbidden to take the vaccine. All the adults have been under flu vaccine recommendation for years so they don’t pass it to the elderly, who are most likely to...
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 Starting April 1, this year, Salmonella Saintpaul has sickened 1, 440 people and about 242 were hospitalized. The Food and Drug administration has tried to discover the produce infected since then.At first, tomatoes were accused to contain the virus. Certain raw tomatoes were got off the market on June 7. The FDA groceries and...
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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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 According to a new report, middle-aged men living in Japan were found to have twice the levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in their organism than men living in America. The findings of the study, published in the August 5, 2008, edition of Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), show that the acids protect the men against...
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 According to the findings of a study published on Monday, women who are obese or overweight should reduce the number of calories by exercising an average of 55 minutes a day, five days a week. The team of researchers who worked at the study followed 201 overweight and obese women from 1999 to 2003. The women had to eat 1,200 to 1,500...
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 Although federal health officials have not cut tomatoes off
the salmonella outbreak cause list, an eruption that has affected more than
1,270 people nationwide, tomato growers are demanding taxpayers to pay them
compensations them for their losses.
Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat from Florida,
a major tomato producer in the...
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 Between early April 2005 and late March 2007, 1,013
Americans died after taking an overdose of an illegal version of the painkiller
fentanyl, according to a report released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
However, according to the study, the number of deaths has
decreased after a fentanyl operation...
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 Diabetes experts from the American Association of Clinical
Endocrinologists issued on Tuesday the first suggestions regarding the
treatment of people with pre-diabetes, hoping to control the diabetes epidemic.
At present, there are no concrete guidelines for diagnosing and dealing with
pre-diabetes, a health problem in which a...
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 Today it was announced that doctors, medical schools, hospitals, researchers and health organizations intend to create the world's largest online medical encyclopedia.Known as Medpedia, the medical encyclopedia will have Wikipedia as model, but it will be written and edited only by qualified professionals. Volunteers who would like to...
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 State public health officials announced on Monday that tests
on an elderly patient at the Cape
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The degenerative disorder is detected on approximately 6
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 The Food and Drug Administration withdrew on Thursday its
warning against consuming certain types of fresh tomatoes, in spite of the fact
that officials said they still had to identify the source of a Salmonella
Saintpaul outbreak which affected the health of more than 1,200 people.
However, the U.S.
agency maintained its...
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 A new study appeared today online, revealing astonishing facts about alcohol’s impact on heart. It was shown that chances of preventing heart disease and stroke may depend on people’s gender and on the quantity they drink. 80,000 Japanese men and women’s drinking patterns were attentively analyzed for a 14-year-period. Before the study,...
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 The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
offers advice on prevention of West Nile virus.
West Nile virus can be contacted by humans via
mosquito bites that caught the disease from infected birds.
Officials advise the public:
-to avoid mosquito-infected areas. These
include small pools of water that are not cleaned out,...
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More than 1,000 people have been sickened in the salmonella
outbreak, which has extended to 41 states and the District of Columbia. Officials said
yesterday this was the biggest food borne outbreak in the past 10 years.
Initially, food safety experts believed tomatoes are the
source of the contamination but then...
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 The U.S. agriculture secretary said the nation's food safety system was reliable, but added that the meat processing industry would constantly be examined because the bacteria which animals carry was developing."I don't think we'll ever see a totally bacteria-free environment in the United States," stated Ed Schafer on Tuesday...
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 Officials who spent almost a month hunting the source of salmonella outbreak are now testing shipments of imported jalapeńos at the Mexican boundary. Initially, they believed tomatoes are the culprit but then jalapeńo peppers drew the attention, almost becoming their leading suspect for spreading the bacteria that triggered to ailments...
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 The Genentech’s most important drug, Avastin,
a drug used to treat breast, colon and lung cancer by cutting off the blood
supply to tumors, may not be as effective as the Food and Drug Administration
had understood when it approved its uses. The US Food and Drug Administration
approved the drug in combination with paclitaxel...
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The tragic night at Kings County Hospital ended up with firings and dismay. A woman waited almost 24 hours for a doctor to see her. She was suffering from a psychiatric disease and died on the floor, inside Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, on June 19. The video which was recorded inside the hospital showed that she received no...
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 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported
on Tuesday that a connection was established between the eruptions of E. coli
bacteria in Michigan and Ohio. Health officials in both states
believe the outbreak was set off by ground beef.
Health officials in Michigan
informed the press that more than half of the people...
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 The New York City Health Department has confirmed that
hundreds of people have been mistakenly diagnosed with HIV.
Two hundred and thirteen people were tested positive for the virus after taking a mouth
swab HIV test. After more detailed medical investigations using blood samples,
the initial results proved to be...
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 The mercury in dental fillings may have
toxic effects on pregnant women, young children and fetuses, the Food and Drug
Administration said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit. The FDA’s
response came as part of a settlement with several consumer advocacy groups,
including Moms Against Mercury, that filled a lawsuit claiming...
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 A tobacco bill is waiting for approval in the U.S. Congress
that would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration the power to control tobacco.
The proposed legislation would prohibit cigarettes flavoured
with strawberry, chocolate and a number of other fruit, candy and spice
flavorings. Those flavorings have...
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 Investigators continued the work to confirm
the source of the salmonella-contaminated tomatoes that have sickened 24 people
in Texas,
according to state officials. 40 cases of Salmonella infection have been
confirmed in New Mexico,
according to the New Mexico Department of Health.
The FDA yesterday warned consumers in Texas and...
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 Six people have died between May 22 and May 28 after being
injected with human immunoglobulin, proteins with features of antibodies. The
cases were registered in east China's
Jiangxi Province,
according to statements local authorities made on Sunday.
The immunoglobulin was produced by Jiangxi Yabo
Bio-pharmaceutical Co at a...
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A large number of hepatitis C cases was recorded recently in
Las Vegas. All
the individuals infected were former patients of the Endoscopy Center of
Southern Nevada. The cause of the contamination was supposed to be the reuse of
syringes and medicine vials.
State health officials contacted the Centers for Disease
Control and...
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 People aged 60 or older should be vaccinated with Zostavax,
which prevents shingles, a painful disorder related to chickenpox, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Thursday. The new
recommendation was published in the May 15 online edition of the Mortality and
Morbidity Weekly Report.
This new advice...
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 Contaminated dry dog food was the cause of an outbreak of
Salmonella infections affecting people in 19 states, public health officials
reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These findings point out that although it is somehow
surprising, dry...
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The 12th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the
Cure in Salt Lake City, Utah, took place on Saturday. This action is
organized each year by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, which was
founded by Nancy Briker in 1982, in her sister’s (Susan Komen) memory. Susan
Komen suffered from cancer and died three years after being...
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 Every year, flu makes more than 200,000
victims in the U.S.,
with 36,000 of them dying because of this illness.
Although last year’s vaccines were only 44%
effective against the flu, the five companies that produce influenza vaccine
intend to release about 143 million doses for the 2008-2009 season, according
to the Associated...
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There 2,3 million teenagers using pots at
least once a month in the U.S.A.
Although the figure sounds alarming, it is actually encouraging, because it shows
a 25% decrease since 2001, according to the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention. Used since prehistory, marijuana, also known as cannabis, has
gained in popularity in...
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 Seventy-seven more cases of hepatitis C contamination have been recorded, in an outbreak occurred among patients of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. The information was brought out by Nevada health officials.
These last findings raise the number of persons infected with this disease to eighty-five, as there had been eight...
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Chinese officials compelled health care providers to report all cases of the disease caused by Enterovirus71, which has sickened more than 15,799 children and killed 28 others across the country, as the Associated Press informs. The reports must be done in 24 hours from the moment new sickening cases have been recorded.
The alarming...
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 Researchers at Which? Computing in England found
the computer keyboard and mouse may be dirtier than a toilet. They tested 33
office keyboards for bacteria. They took swabs from three different places: keyboards,
a toilet seat and a toilet door handle.
The results were alarming: two contained staphylococcus
aureus, also known as...
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Gourmet Boutique, a New York food company, called back over 286
000 pounds of fresh and frozen meat. The decision has been made after the
United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection service
released a Class I alert as concerns the company’s products. This alert is
usually brought out in case of a “reasonable...
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 Epilepsy, a frequent affection nowadays, is
a chronic neurological disorder that has recurrent unprovoked seizures as
manifestation. A team of researchers from the University College London has made
a clinical test with the purpose of finding a new technique for reducing the
number of seizures children suffering of this disease have,...
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Eastern China is overpowered by Enterovirus 71 infections. Twelve children were killed and 1200 sickened in Fuyang, a city in Anhui province. The virus is considered to have the capacity to spread very fast. According to Reuters, the outbreak took place in March and it is propagating to a neighboring province, Henan. All the infected...
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 A three-day simulation is being held in Indonesia, the country with the world's highest human death toll from bird flu. The purpose of this drill is to test people’s ability to deal with a pandemic triggered by the virus and to inform them on how they should handle things if their poultry gets infested.
The event is taking...
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 The 2006 mumps outbreak in the US has affected also those who got the second booster shot, introduced in 1990. This came as a surprise for many experts, as it was widely believed that the second shot would boost immunity to a high level and for a longer period of time.In the 2006 outbreak, nearly 7,000 got the mumps, most of them in the...
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Abuse and neglect of children under age 1 are more of a problem in the United States than previously estimated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Thursday that around 1 in 43 U.S. infants are abused or neglected, those most at risk being newborns."We certainly were distressed," says Ileana...
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 A top CDC scientist, considered by some as a whistleblower, told a congressional panel that his bosses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have ignored his repeated warnings about the health hazards posed by formaldehyde fumes found in emergency trailers."I stated that such clinical signs were a 'harbinger of a pending...
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 Exposure to ultraviolet radiations is good for you. At least
this is what some people from the country’s tanning salons are trying to demonstrate.
The new ad says “Go get a tan. Your body will thank you.”
“The dermatologists,
the sunscreen and cosmetic industries have tried to say that somehow...
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 STMicroelectronics and Veredus Laboratories announced positive test results and the commercial availability of VereFlu(TM), a portable lab-on-chip application which can detect and identify all the major influenza viruses, including the deadly bird flu virus H5N1."We are pleased to report that our evaluation trials show the...
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 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration made public a warning
to grocers to remove from their shelves all cantaloupes from Agropecuaria
Montelibano, because they had been contaminated with the salmonella bacterium.
The melon-processing company mentioned above is located on the Pacific coast in
southern Honduras.
“The United...
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 The Food and Drug Administration was alerted last week after
50 people in the U.S. and 9
in Canada became ill after
eating cantaloupes from a Honduras
manufacturer. It seems the melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano are
contaminated with salmonella. The U.S. government, together with the
F.D.A., advises people not to buy cantaloupes...
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 A Minnesota surgeon has extracted a healthy kidney from a patient, leaving the other one, which was cancerous, inside. The surgery was performed last Tuesday, and both the name of the patient and that of the surgeon have been kept confidential. The incident occurred at the Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park."We feel just...
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 The Alzheimer's Association has released yesterday its yearly report on the disease. The 2008 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures details in 43 pages both current figures and forecasts. The Association has found that as many as 5.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, which now is the seventh-leading cause of death in...
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Trichina worms, which infect pigs and cause a nasty rheumatic illness in humans, have returned to Germany, animal-health officials north of Berlin said Friday.
Trichinosis infects people who have undercooked pork containing the nematodes.
The worms were found at a slaughterhouse in a pig from a private home, veterinarian Holger...
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Doctors in Spain have carried out a pioneering tissue-engineered whole organ transplant by using a windpipe created with the patient's own stem cells, it was reported Wednesday.
Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old Colombian woman, underwent the ground-breaking operation at a hospital in Barcelona in June and is now in perfect health,...
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Several forms of sexual behaviour including cross-dressing and transvestism are to be removed from a list of medical "diagnoses" in Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare said Monday.
The agency has in recent years been approached by various organizations including the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education...
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Several forms of sexual behaviour including cross-dressing and transvestism are to be removed from a list of medical "diagnoses" in Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare said Monday.
The agency has in recent years been approached by various organizations including the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education...
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Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
The fungus is capable of causing heavy damage to wheat crops and is a major threat to food security, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture...
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Climate change poses a health threat in Europe and central Asia, especially among the poor, experts from the United Nations and the European Union's food safety watchdog said Tuesday.
The warning came in a statement from a seminar in Rome on the health effects of climate change on food, water safety and nutrition.
The seminar is...
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Germany moved Friday against an outbreak of bird flu close to the Polish border, slaughtering 1,400 ducks and geese on a farm at Markersdorf near the city of Goerlitz.
One of the ducks had caught H5N1, the avian influenza virus which can be fatal to human beings. Germany had been considered free of the disease since an outbreak in...
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Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday.
It was the first proven appearance of the disease this year in Germany. Officials were preparing to slaughter the whole flock of ducks at Goerlitz, near the Polish border.
Germany's...
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 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French scientists together with German researchers Harald zur Hausen, sheared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday. The three Europeans discovered different viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer which helped doctors to fight against these diseases.The French scientists...
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German Harald zur Hausen on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer.
He shares the prize with French scientists Francoise Barre- Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who were awarded the prize for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The...
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French virologists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, will always be associated with the discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.
In 1982, Montagnier headed a team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, of which Barre-Sinoussi was a member, that was asked for assistance in...
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The findings of a virus that causes cervical cancer and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
German Harald zur Hausen was awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...
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New finds of a livestock disease known as bluetongue do not give reason to extend current restrictions in south- western Sweden, Swedish authorities said Thursday.
The National Board of Agriculture said eight cases have been detected on two neighbouring farms in Halland.
Two cows tested positive for bluetongue disease over the...
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The Spanish health authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose son died earlier of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, experts said Wednesday in Madrid.
If it is confirmed that the woman and her son died from the same cause, they would be the...
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 The woman whose disease in April alerted Austria’s
authorities to a major incest scandal, Kerstin Fritzl, regained consciousness,
BBC News reports. She is the oldest of seven children fathered by Josef Fritzl
with Elisabeth, the daughter he held captive for 24 years and repeatedly sexually
abused her.
Fritzl, 73, remains in...
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 Britain’s
prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for “unequivocal backing” for the
human fertilisation and embryology bill, which would legalize hybrid human-animal
embryos. All the main parties are allowing free votes on the four parts taken
into consideration for the bill: hybrid embryos, the role of fathers, “saviour
siblings”...
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 The family of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter in his dungeon for 24 years, released a statement for the public in order to express gratitude for the support they received.Fritzl’s daughter, Elizabeth, five of her children and her mother, Rosemarie, wrote a poster thanking people for their...
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 The Austrian man who fathered seven children with his
daughter while keeping her imprisoned in his dungeon claimed that media
coverage was “unfair” and “entirely one-dimensional,” as he was “no monster,” Telegraph.co.uk
reports.
“I am no monster,” Josef Fritzl said though his lawyer Rudolf Mayer, according to
the German tabloid...
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More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into
poverty by a “silent tsunami which knows no borders sweeping the world.” That
is how the head of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) summed up the global
food shortages, according to BBC News.
It appears that the “tsunami” sparked riots around the world
and...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a direct televised
appeal to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Tuesday, urging
hostage’s Ingrid Betancourt release. “Ingrid is in danger of imminent death.
She no longer has the strength to resist an interminable captivity which is
turning into tragedy,” Sarkozy said,...
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 A devastating fire swept through London's world- renowned Royal Marsden
cancer hospital Wednesday forcing the evacuation of nearly 80 patients
and leaving three people requiring treatment for smoke inhalation.
The fire almost completely destroyed the roof and upper floors of
the 19th century building on the Fulham Road, in the...
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 Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched an international
campaign to help and improve the world’s poorest countries’ health problems.
The International Health Partnership (IHP) is trying to
re-enforce health systems in the developing world and make it easier for
struggling third-world nations.
"Our vision today is that we...
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 The ban that the European Union put on exports of British
livestock , meat and diary products will be lifted starting with August, 25.
The restriction was imposed earlier this month because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in
southeastern England.
The ban will still remain in effect for a small area, a
10-kilometer...
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 Legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti is having breathing problems and was admitted to an Italian hospital for suspected pneumonia. Pavarotti has pancreatic cancer, a disease which was discovered last year. He has undergone surgery last year and is currently going through the fifth round of chemotherapy.The 71-year-old tenor was brought to...
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 The AIDS epidemic goes on because the Americans seemed to have ignored the piece of advice given by the U.S. health officials to get the HIV testing if they were aged between 13 and 64 years. These testing remain in the shadow for most of the people. And this happens despite the new guidelines and the better testing methods.These results...
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 Iressa is a new pill designed to cure lung cancer. Researchers reported on Thursday that Iressa has shown incredible results when it comes to cure the lung cancer by itself. Even if the disease is advanced, the pill can easily replace the standard chemotherapy. Iressa is released by AstraZeneca and its treatment is a daily one. The...
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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 A research presented on Sunday at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in Seattle showed that children who have both asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease can treat the stomach disease and at the same time improve the cure for asthma.Gastroesophageal reflux disease causes the fluid from the...
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 Doctors from Bay Area have announced that a new low-cost test will be available for the patients who have problems with their hearts. The test will be part of a regular medical exam that will also include with blood pressure and cholesterol screenings. A recent study presented at the meeting of the American Heart Association in New...
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