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| U.S. Department of Agriculture experts knew about sanitary problems at one of the two Iowa farms at the center of a massive nationwide egg recall, but did not notify health authorities, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS.
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| A US appeals court suspended Thursday a ban on state-funding for embryonic stem cell research pending a full appeal of the case, in a major boost to President Barack Obama's administration.
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| "Look! It's huge!" shouts a muddy but beaming Han Myung-Ja, 52, plunging her hoe into the soil to unearth a giant ginseng root.
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| Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months.
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| The risks of a potential new diet pill and a 13-year-old weight-loss medicine face U.S. scrutiny next week as medical experts consider if the drugs' benefits outweigh possible side effects.
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| Britain's healthcare cost watchdog said it was unable to recommend use of Bristol-Myers Squibb's schizophrenia drug Abilify in children aged 15 to 17 and has asked for more information on its effectiveness.
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| U.S. Department of Agriculture experts knew about sanitary problems at one of the two Iowa farms at the center of a massive nationwide egg recall, but did not notify health authorities, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Men who have a certain genetic variations that put them at higher risk of prostate cancer may benefit from regular screening for the disease, a study by British scientists found Friday.
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| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent warnings to five makers of electronic cigarettes for marketing them illegally as stop-smoking aids and said on Thursday it intends to regulate the products as drugs.
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| THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Most teenagers think
they're invincible, and that goes double for talented teenage athletes.
They're young, immortal, at the top of their game, the envy of their
friends.
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| FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Young women are more likely
to use birth control if their partners are in favor of it, new study
findings suggest.
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| Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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| FRIDAY. Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- For Lisa Byrns, a school
nurse, dealing with head lice brings out the investigator in her.
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| FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- They're the ultimate creepy
crawler. Creatures that truly give people the willies. And they're apt to
make you feel unclean, or maybe even a bad parent (neither of which,
experts say, is valid).
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| (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
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| (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatitis occurs when the pancreas, a
gland near the stomach that helps you digest food, becomes inflamed.
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| FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Testing simple physical
abilities may help predict a person's risk of death, suggests a new
study.
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| Mothers who don't breastfeed their newborns for at least one month are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives than women who do, a Pennsylvania study finds.
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| (HealthDay News) -- If you have high blood pressure, it's
important to get it under control before you become pregnant. High
blood pressure during pregnancy can be dangerous for both mom and
baby.
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| FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Significant distrust of the
health-care system is a major reason why black Americans donate blood at
lower rates than whites, says a new study.
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| New U.S. reforms are poised to dramatically shift the nation's healthcare spending, not only curbing Medicare costs but also pumping more money toward the private sector as roughly 32 million people gain coverage.
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| Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday,
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| John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
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| Tests of tumor samples taken before and after treatment with an experimental melanoma pill helped researchers find the right dose in early stage testing, an approach that may boost the drug's chances of success and aid in developing others, co...
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| Large daily doses of B vitamins could delay -- or even halt -- the onset of Alzheimer's disease, a study suggested Thursday.
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| Taking a multivitamin is unlikely to help colon cancer patients in battling the disease, suggests a new study.
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| Researchers have identified two new genetic mutations that cause a significant number of the hardest-to-treat kinds of ovarian cancer, and say they point to a new "on-off" switch for tumors.
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| Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.
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| The nation's health care tab will go up — not down — as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the conclusion of a government forecast Thursday, which also predicts the increase will be modest.
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