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How Sun and Smoke Trigger Cancer - MIT Technology Review

21 Dec 2009 06:57:14 PST

How Sun and Smoke Trigger Cancer blog) By applying the same approach to other cancers not associated with cigarette smoking, including the very large group of people who develop lung cancer but ... Scientists sequence DNA genome for 2 cancersPress TV

Original story at MIT Technology Review .

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Opinion: 'Full genetics of cancer mapped'

20 Dec 2009 16:11:22 PST

WIVB In the malignant melanoma skin cancer cells, the researchers identified 33345 single-letter changes in the DNA. The also identified various other mutations ... How Sun and Smoke Trigger CancerMIT Technology Review (blog) Scientists sequence DNA genome for 2 cancersPress TV

Original story at Nursing Times .

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Opinion: Screening guidelines focus on percentages, not people

17 Dec 2009 16:03:22 PST

These women are not automatically funded under the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, even though they meet the income guidelines. ... Nava and California Breast Cancer Survivors Urge State Leaders to Spare Cuts ...California Newswire

Original story at South Bend Tribune .

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Opinion: Administration pushes swine flu vaccines in ads

07 Dec 2009 03:06:42 PST

AP WASHINGTON -- Pushing Americans to receive swine flu vaccinations, the Obama administration on Monday released a new slate of ... Swine flu may be mildest pandemic ever, researchers sayLos Angeles Times Swine flu abates, but experts urge preparednessSan Francisco Chronicle

Original story at Washington Post .

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Opinion: White House Is Urged to Help States With Nuclear Plants Stockpile Thyroid Drug

06 Dec 2009 19:59:12 PST

Federal guidelines stress its importance for children and young adults, whose thyroid glands are most vulnerable to radioactive iodine. ... White House urged to help states with nuclear plants stockpile thyroid drugSpartanburg Herald Journal

Original story at New York Times .

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Opinion: United Way hosts bone marrow drive for leukemia victim Saturday

03 Dec 2009 10:32:13 PST

AML is a very serious disease, but one that can be controlled or even cured if a patient is given the right treatment – usually a bone marrow transplant. ... Bone Marrow Drive to be held for St. Jude PatientWBKO Leukemia Patient Awaits Bone Marrow TransplantKECI-TV

Original story at recordernewspapers.com .

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Health news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Health news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Opinion: Healthbeat: Is that spot on your skin harmless, or is it cancer? -- from Mundelein Review
• Opinion: Obese People Seem to Do Better With Heart Disease -- from Forbes
• Opinion: Heart disease is not a 'man-thing': How to stop the equal ... -- from Daily Mail
• Opinion: The Constantly Mutating Flu Virus - Should You Be Worried? -- from FOXNews
• Opinion: Swine flu — One reported Michigan swine flu case in nearby ... -- from Fenton Tri County Times
• Opinion: Surgery effective for moderate obesity -- from Reuters UK
• Opinion: Twitter Catches Swine Flu, But Don't Shoot the Messenger -- by Kit Eaton from Fast Company
• Opinion: Indevus Pharmaceuticals: Valstar reintroduced into bladder cancer ... -- from Pharmaceutical Business Review
• Opinion: Weight Loss, where to start -- from Sexy Magick
• Opinion: Health Tip: Warning Signs of Sleep Apnea -- from U.S. News & World Report

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Opinion: Operative Blood Loss and Survival in Pancreatic Cancer—Reply

15 Jun 2009 13:02:28 PDT

We agree that the EBL is less accurate than one might wish, and in our review of the University of California–Los Angeles experience with resection for pancreatic cancer, the recorded EBL value was that of the anesthesiologist's, taken from the ...

Original story at Journal of American Medical Association .

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Opinion: Tai Chi Soothes Arthritis Pain - About

15 Jun 2009 03:21:49 PDT

Tai Chi Soothes Arthritis Pain For the review, researchers analyzed seven studies that used tai chi as the main intervention for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Results showed that tai chi helped lessen pain and disability in arthritis patients, although its effect on ...

Original story at altmedicine.about.com .

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Review Finds Home Management Program For Children With Asthma Can ...

28 May 2009 18:01:20 PDT

Because children have smaller airways than adults, asthma is especially serious for them. Some of the symptoms of asthma include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness and trouble breathing, especially early in the morning or at night, according to ...

Original story at All Headline News .

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Opinion: Obesity is best for heart disease sufferers

19 May 2009 01:29:49 PDT

Although obesity is a leading cause of heart disease, paradoxically scientists say fat and even high cholesterol may have protective benefits. But researchers say losing weight is still best because obesity triggers more heart attacks and strokes. ...

Original story at Telegraph.co.uk .

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Opinion: Probable Cases of Influenza A (H1N1) Virus rise in Michigan

04 May 2009 09:49:23 PDT

A suspected case of Influenza A (H1N1) virus infection is defined as a person with acute febrile respiratory illness with onset within seven days of close contact with a person who is a confirmed case of swine influenza infection, or within seven days ... H1N1 continues to spread WWMT

Original story at Petoskey News-Review .

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Opinion: Top diet pills - Facts

03 May 2009 09:06:16 PDT

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Opinion: Officials: Whooping cough outbreak might spread locally

24 Apr 2009 03:39:35 PDT

Stover encourages parents to call their family physicians about whether their child should receive the Tdap, also known as the combined tetanus, diphtheria and Pertussis vaccine. She said there has been a handful of cases of Pertussis in the past in ...

Original story at lancastereaglegazette.com - SPORTS .

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Opinion: Medtronic Investigational Implant May Subdue Overactive Bladder - DOTmed.com

22 Apr 2009 07:43:36 PDT

by Lynn Shapiro, Writer For people with urinary incontinence who have run out of options, an electrical device being tested by Medtronic might help, according to a new Cochrane Library review. The battery-operated implant, called InterStim, ...

Original story at DOTmed.com .

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Opinion: Tales of a nation in darkness

16 Apr 2009 00:41:20 PDT

This is why we had the cholera epidemic last year,' agrees Gappah, vehemently. 'If you have a total breakdown of your sanitation system, that's how it spreads.' In one month alone, Médecins Sans Frontières treated 4000 cholera cases in Zimbabwe. ...

Original story at Metro Cafe .

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Opinion: Evidence weak on new cholesterol tests-US study

06 Apr 2009 15:05:58 PDT

In all of the studies, they found the higher the LDL particle number, the higher the risk for heart disease, regardless of the levels of other fats, such as high-density lipoprotein or HDL, the so-called good cholesterol considered protective against ...

Original story at Reuters .

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FDA Poised to Review Two New Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes - Diabetes Health

20 Mar 2009 11:52:18 PDT

Diabetes Health (press release) Both drugs are designed to lower blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes, but there are concerns that they may be linked to a higher occurrence of cardiovascular problems in diabetes patients. Consequently, the committee will focus on ...

Original story at diabeteshealth.com .

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Recession adds hurdles to getting good night’s sleep - Las Vegas Review

15 Mar 2009 16:59:40 PDT

Obstructive sleep apnea, for instance, in which a person “stops breathing for a period of more than 10 seconds throughout the night,” McPherson says. Or a throat problem. Or chronic pain caused by another condition. Even depression that would require ...

Original story at Las Vegas Review-Journal .

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Opinion: The Cost-Effectiveness of Virtual Colonoscopies

13 Mar 2009 21:00:50 PDT

In editorializing against Medicare’s paying for virtual colonoscopy, a technology that will increase colorectal cancer screening, you write that even if “virtual colonoscopies are clinically effective,” Medicare would then “need to determine whether ...

Original story at New York Times .

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Opinion: Army Believed to Have Infected 16 With Hepatitis

12 Mar 2009 11:16:02 PDT

According to the CDC, over the past ten years, tens of thousands of American patients have been asked to undergo HBV and HCV testing because proper infection control practices were not followed. The CDC review of outbreak data indicated that, ...

Original story at Newsinferno.com .

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Opinion: Strengthening the Global Alliance on AIDS: Five Strategic Steps

09 Mar 2009 10:08:06 PDT

In two previous articles, I had indicated the need for the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to be reorganized with a major focus on consolidating the United Nations' system response to the AIDS global epidemic, and the need for ...

Original story at World Press Review .

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Opinion: NW China region reports sharp rise in HIV/AIDS cases

08 Mar 2009 00:46:56 PST

LANZHOU, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The number of reported cases of HIV/AIDS rose by 50 percent last year to 216 in northwest China's Gansu Province. Gansu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (GPCDC) said Sunday only 10 people were diagnosed ...

Original story at Xinhua .

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Skin Care Tips & Products : Acne Medicine Review

17 Feb 2009 15:01:05 PST

Written by rss@youtube.com (ehowbeauty)
The best acne medicine is made with salicylic acid, such as Murad cleanser, which exfoliates the skin and clears the pores, but sulfur is another natural ingredient that works well to treat acne. Find the best acne medicines with beauty advice from a certified aesthetician in this free vi...

Original story at YouTube .

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Opinion: Lupus Research Institute: Pioneering Discovery to Advance, Treat and Cure Lupus

28 Jan 2009 14:54:03 PST

Written by rss@youtube.com (LupusNY)
The Lupus Research Institute (LRI), the countrys only nonprofit organization singularly devoted to novel research in lupus, champions innovation, encourages scientific creativity and risks exploring uncharted territory to bring new scientific solutions to the complex and dang...

Original story at YouTube .

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Opinion: Google's Local Migraine

26 Sep 2008 14:25:02 PDT

Indexing the world's data is like a wonderful child's dream. And Google is now far along the way of making that think-big dream come true. But I think we've reached the point where Google needs to come out of the lab and meet that world they are indexing. Their to-do list is literally blinking re...

Original story at Search Engine Guide .

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