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| Date : 7/23/2008 |
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Hour : 12:11:11 PM |
| A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet.
The High Court heard Dawn Page, 52, began vomiting uncontrollably after starting The Amazing Hydration Diet. |
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| Date : 7/23/2008 |
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Hour : 12:09:16 PM |
| Researchers have developed a plant-based cancer vaccine capable of kick-starting the body's immune response and being tailored to a patient's specific tumor type, according to a study released Monday.
While they have not yet determined whether the immune response is sufficient to destroy the cancer, the researchers are hopeful that the technique could one day lead to a cure for at lease some types of the deadly disease. |
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| Date : 7/21/2008 |
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Hour : 10:59:03 AM |
| The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis, warning that even more virulent forms of the disease could spread if they fail to do so.
WHO said many Asian countries lack adequate laboratory facilities to detect multidrug-resistant TB, and only 1 percent of the estimated 150,000 people infected with the disease in East Asia and the Pacific are receiving appropriate treatment. |
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| Date : 7/21/2008 |
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Hour : 10:57:27 AM |
| Alzheimer's patients given a popular rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic improvements in a small study, but some doctors worried that the early findings will raise premature hopes in patients and their families.
The study, reported on Sunday in the journal BioMed Central BMC Neurology, involved 12 patients who had greatly improved language recall shortly after treatment with Enbrel, or etanercept, an anti-inflammatory drug co-marketed by Amgen and Wyeth. |
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| Date : 7/19/2008 |
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Hour : 7:17:18 PM |
| Exercise is good for you during any stage of life. But among pregnant women, it can offset some common problems.
Your doctor should approve of any exercise program while you're pregnant. The American Pregnancy Association offers this list of potential benefits: |
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| Date : 7/19/2008 |
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Hour : 7:15:07 PM |
| A gene found only in people of African ancestry which evolved to prevent malaria infection now increases the odds of contracting AIDS by up to 40 percent, a new study has found.
The gene does, however, seem to protect against the progression of the disease, allowing those carrying it to live about two years longer.
Around 90 percent of people in Africa carry this genetic variant and it may be responsible for 11 percent of the infections there, the study published Wednesday in Cell Host & Microbe found. |
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| Date : 7/14/2008 |
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Hour : 8:24:02 PM |
| The European Union's health and consumer chiefs urged holidaymakers on Monday to take extra measures to protect themselves from the sun this summer in a bid to curb rising levels of skin cancer, notably among children.
Ultraviolet rays from the sun are the leading cause of skin cancer with one in every three cancers diagnosed as the skin variety, the Skin Cancer Foundation says. |
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| Date : 7/14/2008 |
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Hour : 8:11:42 PM |
| Siamese twins from Morocco, connected since birth at the chest and stomach, were separated in a successful operation at a Riyadh hospital on Saturday, the state news agency SPA reported.
It said Safa and Marwa, who shared the same liver and digestive system, were operated at King Abdul Aziz Medical City where they were hospitalised on arrival in the Saudi capital on April 4, accompanied by their parents. |
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| Date : 7/13/2008 |
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Hour : 12:16:08 PM |
| When Dr. Michael E. DeBakey pushed forward with his groundbreaking research and maverick approach to medicine a half century ago, heart surgery was a medical marvel.
Today, in part because of his contributions, it routinely saves thousands of lives each day.
DeBakey, a world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, died Friday night in Houston. He was 99. |
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| Date : 7/11/2008 |
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Hour : 12:23:11 PM |
| Nearly half of nonsmoking Americans are still breathing in cigarette fumes, but the percentage has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, according to a government study released Thursday.
A main reason for the decline in secondhand smoke is the growing number of laws and policies that ban smoking in workplaces, bars, restaurants and public places, said researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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| Date : 7/11/2008 |
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Hour : 12:21:28 PM |
| Learning how to deal with conflicts is an important part of maturing, and will help you build healthy relationships throughout your life.
Here, for teens, are suggestions for dealing with conflicts in a healthy way, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: |
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| Date : 7/11/2008 |
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Hour : 12:19:20 PM |
| When children see others in pain, their brains respond as if it were happening to them, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
This response, which also has been shown in adults, suggests that normal school-age children may be naturally prone to empathy, they said. |
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| Date : 7/9/2008 |
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Hour : 8:32:07 PM |
| Obese men have poorer quality sperm, perhaps because too much fat around their testicles causes them to heat up, scientists have suggested.
University of Aberdeen researchers looked at the sperm of over 2,000 men in couples having problems conceiving.
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| Date : 7/9/2008 |
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Hour : 8:29:22 PM |
| A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.
In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who'd gotten medical monitoring but no or delayed treatment, another common treatment approach. |
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| Date : 7/9/2008 |
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Hour : 8:27:25 PM |
| Daily brushing and flossing, and regular dental visits, are important ways to keep your pearly whites healthy.
Here are additional suggestions for better tooth health, provided by the Nemours Foundation: |
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| Date : 7/7/2008 |
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Hour : 9:23:17 AM |
| Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday.
It has long been known that a woman's chance of reproducing declines with age once she is in her mid-thirties, but the new findings provide the strongest evidence to date that being an older father poses a risk as well. |
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| Date : 7/7/2008 |
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Hour : 9:21:15 AM |
| British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature.
Previous research had shown that an extremely rare mutation in the same PCSK1 gene can, all by itself, lead to huge gains in weight, making it the only known source of so-called "monogenetic" obesity. |
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| Date : 7/5/2008 |
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Hour : 10:21:30 AM |
| Women who get a replacement kidney from a male donor are more likely to reject the new organ, scientists suggest.
Swiss researchers looked at almost 200,000 operations, finding an 8% increase in the chance of failure when male kidneys were given to women.
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