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Tuberculosis Affects Children More Than Previously Thought A doctor attends to a child infected with tuberculosis at a hospital in Kotawa, India. AP. About one million children world-wide under 15 years old contract tuberculosis every year, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new study from researchers ...
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| Popular probiotics have few cons, experts say Every year, half of all Americans take some kind of pill as insurance against their diets. But recently, researchers have noticed a surprising trend: Use of some of the most popular supplements is waning, possibly because of recent reports questioning their ...
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World health agency calls for a renewed push against drug-resistant tuberculosis GENEVA -- The World Health Organization is calling on the international community to step up its efforts to diagnose and treat tuberculosis, noting that one-third of the 9 million people who fall ill with TB each year receive no treatment. “Reach the 3 million” is ...
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Study fuels debate on linking dietary fats to heart disease Decades after Americans began switching from whole milk to skim, from butter to olive oil, and from red meat to turkey breast — all in an effort to cut saturated fat — nutrition researchers have concluded that saturated fat might not be so bad for our hearts after ...
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Can't get pregnant? Stress linked to infertility in some women Now the mother of 7-year-old triplets, Abigail David believes it may have been the stress of working full time and trying to start a new business may have contributed to her difficulty getting pregnant. Women trying to get pregnant are often told, "Relax and it'll ...
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| Israel's BrainStorm gets US patent for stem cell technology TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel-based BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics said on Monday the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a key patent for its autologous stem cell technology. The patent covers BrainStorm's stem cells induced to secrete ...
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One Million Children Infected with Tuberculosis Yearly: Study WASHINGTON — On World TB Day, March 24, there's some sobering news about children and tuberculosis. A new study estimates that every year, 1 million children worldwide become infected with TB. That's twice previous World Health Organization ...
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In California, Chefs Fight for Bare-Hand Contact As the happy hour crowd poured in on a recent weeknight, the kitchen and bar staff at Hock Farm restaurant scrambled to meet the incoming orders. One used her hands to toss locally grown Romaine hearts with anchovy dressing in a metal bowl, while ...
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Kids learn stroke signs in class through imitation In this Feb. 25, 2014 photo, third-graders, from left, Hunter Thomas, Matthew Velez, Sebastian Mendez, Jayden Gonzalez and Elijah Farias examine a plastic model of a brain at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York. The hospital teaches ...
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Skating to Fight Cancer Dozens of people filled the Leddy Arena to raise money for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. BURLINGTON, VT- Hitting the ice for a good cause. Dozens of people filled the Leddy Arena to raise money for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life ...
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Study shows that nearly one mn children suffer from TB annually Washington: As the world observes World TB Day Monday, a shocking research reveals that despite improved medication and government as well as aid agencies' efforts, the number of children suffering from tuberculosis (TB) annually has doubled since ...
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World Tubeculosis Day 2014: Progress in diagnosing multidrug-resistant ... Almost half a million people fell ill with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2012, yet less than one in 4 of these people was diagnosed, mainly due to a lack of access to quality diagnostic services. But with an innovative international project, ...
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Marijuana Legalization May Spur America's Next Great Industry Marijuana legalization may spur America's next great industry. Oil, railroads, aviation, automobiles, finance and the personal computer. Marijuana could join this list, as it is expected to be one of America's next great industries. In what is being called a ...
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Bariatric surgery reduces risk of uterine cancer by 71 percent Washington. March 23 (ANI): A new research has found that dramatic weight loss in formerly obese women resulting from bariatric surgery decreases the risk of endometrial (uterine) cancer by 71 percent. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego ...
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Religion and Health Law Meet in Court But now the Supreme Court must decide whether impersonal, for-profit companies do enjoy religious rights that exempt them from providing contraceptives under the Obama administration's health care law. “That's a big question,” said Laurie Sobel, a senior ...
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Inactive mothers 'set bad example' INACTIVE mothers may be preventing their children getting enough exercise by setting a bad example, a study suggests. Scientists who measured the physical activity levels of mothers and their four-year-old children found a direct association between the ...
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Through history, the Boston Marathon as a race against fear “'Everyone wants to be there this year,” a friend said recently, and accurately: In a show of courage and community, a near-record 36,000 runners are expected to take part in the 2014 Boston Marathon. An estimated 1 million spectators, twice the usual ...
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Foetal remains burnt to heat UK hospitals One of the country's leading hospitals, Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, incinerated 797 foetuses of under 13 weeks gestation at their own waste-to-energy plant. Photo / Thinkstock. The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as ...
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Parkers Farm recalls dozens of products for possible bacteria contamination Parkers Farm, the Coon Rapids food company known for its peanut butter and line of refrigerated snacks, is recalling more than a dozen products after state investigators found some were contaminated with listeria, an infection-causing bacterium. No illnesses ...
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| Mumps continues to spread at Ohio State Mumps is caused by a viral infection that is very difficult for doctors to diagnose. In this short film we show how it is diagnosed and explain why it is so important that you vaccinate your child against this infection.on.aol.com. Charles SimminsHealthcare ...
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BRCAPRO model undervalues BRCA1/2 mutation risk According to a new study published in scientific Journal of Clinical Oncology suggests that the use of the BRCAPRO model for evaluation of the probability of having a germline BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation can be based on age, ethnicity, and the family history.
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