January 27th, 2012 at 11:45am Under health
AP - French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company embroiled in a scandal over possibly faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women.
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:56pm Under health
AP - Bill Gates pledged $750 million on Thursday to fight three killer diseases and rescue a beleaguered health fund whose financial losses have cost it donor support.
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:56pm Under health
AP - About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:56pm Under health
AP - Kristy Bryner worries her 80-year-old mom might slip and fall when she picks up the newspaper, or that she’ll get in an accident when she drives to the grocery store. What if she has a medical emergency and no one’s there to help? What if, like her father, her mother slips into a fog of dementia?
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:56pm Under health
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans
being screened for colon, breast and cervical cancers still fall below
national targets, federal health officials said Thursday.
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:56pm Under health
Reuters - Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer has been heavily hyped, and a new study suggests that men’s expectations of the surgery may be too high.
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:55am Under health
AP - Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:55am Under health
AP - Imagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20 calls a day from people saying they had such symptoms.
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:55am Under health
AP - The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings — including the always popular pizza — will come with less sodium, more whole grains and a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side.
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:55am Under health
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) — Women need to get
recommended Pap tests, while girls and young women should be vaccinated
against human papillomavirus (HPV) to protect them from cervical cancer,
the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises during
Cervical Health Awareness Month.
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