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Lessons of Heart Disease, Learned and Ignored 06/15/2010
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Lessons of Heart Disease, Learned and Ignored
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Gains From Exercise After Heart Attack Are Lost if Exercise Stops 06/15/2010
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Gains From Exercise After Heart Attack Are Lost if Exercise Stops
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Obesity takes a toll on sexual health 06/15/2010
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Obesity takes a toll on sexual health
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Hormone Therapy May Confer More Aggressive Properties To Prostate Tumors 06/15/2010
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Hormone therapy is often given to patients with advanced prostate cancer.
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Decision Tool For Prostate Cancer Patients Helps Men Customize Treatment In Anxious Time 06/15/2010
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An online decision tool created in part by a graduate student at the University of California Irvine helps men diagnosed with prostate cancer sort through an intimidating flurry of possible treatments and customize treatment plans of their own, accordi
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Study: Blood Pressure Drugs Linked to Cancer 06/14/2010
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A drug commonly used to treat blood pressure, heart failure and diabetes-related kidney damage, was linked to a “modest” increased risk of cancer in a study published Monday.
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Bayer Cancer Drug Fails to Meet Primary Goal 06/14/2010
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Germany's Bayer AG said Monday that cancer treatment Nexavar failed to reach its primary goal of extending the lives of patients with a certain advanced form of lung cancer in a late-stage clinical trial.
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Human Genome Says FDA Unlikely to Approve Bimonthly Zalbin Dose 06/14/2010
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Human Genome Sciences Inc. said the Food and Drug Administration likely won't approve its effort to sell a hepatitis C drug in a dose that is taken every two weeks, expressing concern about the "risk benefit."
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New contraceptive pill “ella” effective for 5 days after unprotected sex 06/14/2010
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An innovative next-generation emergency contraceptive pill “ella” that is supposed to be a longer working alternative to the ‘morning-after pill’ is being offered by French pharmaceutical company HRA Pharma of Paris.
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Woman Shoots Herself to Get Medical Care 06/14/2010
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Kathy Myers is one of the 1.2 million people living in Michigan without health insurance. After an accident with her dog, Myers withstood a month of intense pain in her right shoulder. Unemployed, uninsured, and unable to afford a doctor to look at her
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New Health Reform Campaign Puts Dem Candidates in a Tough Spot 06/14/2010
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Only a few months after the heated battles on Capitol Hill, it must have been quite a relief for President Obama to turn his focus to health care reform, however briefly, last week. After being pummeled by Republicans and cable talking heads over his r
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Survivors are guests of honor 06/14/2010
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As a cancer survivor Becky Threadgill can expect to feel special during Friday’s American Cancer Society Relay for Life at the Olean Middle School track on Wayne Street.
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Why Patients Aren’t Getting the Shingles Vaccine 06/14/2010
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Four years ago at age 78, R., a retired professional known as much for her small-town Minnesotan resilience as her commitment to public service, developed a fleeting rash over her left chest. The rash, which turned out to be shing
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For Forgetful, Cash Helps the Medicine Go Down 06/14/2010
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It has long been one of the most vexing causes of America’s skyrocketing health costs: people not taking their medicine.
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A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures 06/14/2010
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Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits.
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New Rules on Changes to Benefits 06/14/2010
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The White House on Monday will issue new rules that strongly discourage employers from cutting health insurance benefits or increasing the costs of coverage to employees, administration officials say.
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In Florida, a Lifeline to Patients With TB 06/14/2010
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The last of the nation’s original tuberculosis sanitariums sits, improbably, just off Interstate 95, near a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Motel 6, and just behind fields of children playing soccer. The fading signs out front simply say READ MORE
BLAME the pizza. That’s what Jennifer Deans does. She blames the pizza she and her husband devoured on a regular basis for the combined 95 pounds they gained in the four years that they have been married. More Disputes Over Handling of Drug Recall A new study found that certain women getting a lumpectomy may not need an operation to remove underarm lymph nodes, a procedure that can leave them with painfully swollen arms. Compared with not removing the nodes, the surgery did not prolong
