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Deadly H5N1 bird flu needs just 5 mutations to spread easily in people It's a flu virus so deadly that scientists once halted research on the disease because governments feared it might be used by terrorists to stage a biological attack. Yet despite the fact that the H5N1 avian influenza has killed 60% of the 650 humans known to be ...
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Doctors welcome hepatitis C drug rivals, Gilead still leads LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors at a key medical conference welcomed the prospect of more new drugs to treat the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, while agreeing that Gilead Sciences Inc continues to lead the effort. Gilead, under fire from ...
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Scientists grow viable vaginas from girls' own cells CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four young women born with abnormal or missing vaginas were implanted with lab-grown versions made from their own cells, the latest success in creating replacement organs that have so far included tracheas, bladders and urethras.
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| Cleveland Clinic exports marquee Ohio brand to Abu Dhabi NEW YORK (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's late king, Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, went there for heart surgery. The late United Arab Emirates president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, traveled 7,000 miles to get there for his kidney transplant. For decades the ...
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Medical first as noses are 'regrown' Surgeons have rebuilt the noses of five skin cancer patients by growing the nasal tissue. They successfully rebuilt their nostrils with a revolutionary technique in which cells were taken from their nasal septum, the cartilage partition which runs down the middle ...
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Study links Facebook to poor body image A study about Facebook finds too much of the social media site could have negative effects on young women. Ohio University, The University of Iowa and University of Strathclyde collected data from more than 800 female college students. Those who spent ...
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Dieters move past calories, food makers follow FILE - This Jan. 31, 2006 file photo, boxes of Kellogg's Special K cereal are on display at a supermarket in an Omaha, Neb. The fixation on calorie counts that defined dieting for so long is giving way to other considerations, like the promise of more fiber or ...
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Researchers using math to whittle away at jet lag WASHINGTON (AP) — Lots of apps claim they can help you fight jet lag. Now Michigan researchers say mathematical formulas suggest it's possible to adjust to new time zones a bit faster than previously thought, and they created their own free app to help.
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Medicare Data Reveals $1 Billion a Year for Costly Eye Drug Manju Subramanian, a MED associate professor of ophthalmology, says Avastin would cost $650 per patient per year, while Lucentis costs $50,000 per patient per year. Photo by Vernon Doucette. When data documenting Medicare payments to more than ...
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Dove Patches campaign: is beauty all in the mind? Following on from Dove's award-winning 'Sketches' video - in which an FBI-trained forensic artist helped to demonstrate that strangers see each other as more beautiful than women see themselves - Dove have just released their latest Real Beauty video.
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Moms on Antidepressants More Likely to Breastfeed (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Mothers who stay on their prescribed antidepressant regime are more successful at maintaining breastfeeding through the recommended six month period than women who stop taking antidepressants while pregnant or during ...
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Vermont mom reveals how her family avoided sugar for a year in new book In 'Year of No Sugar,' Eve Schaub reveals details her household avoided added sugars for all of 2011. 'We felt healthier, it seemed like we got sick less,' the mom-of-two says. AFP RELAXNEWS. Thursday, April 10, 2014, 2:40 PM. A; A; A. Share this URL ...
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Cure Rate for Experimental Hepatitis C Drug Tops 95 Percent THURSDAY, April 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that an experimental drug has cured more than 95 percent of patients infected with hepatitis C, including some who failed other treatments. If it wins approval from the U.S. Food and Drug ...
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There's no faking it -- your sexual partner knows if you're really satisfied There is no point faking it in bed because chances are your sexual partner will be able to tell. A study by researchers at the University of Waterloo found that men and women are equally perceptive of their partners' levels of sexual satisfaction. The study by ...
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Kitchen Cutting Boards Can Harbor Drug-Resistant Germs: Study THURSDAY, April 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Kitchen cutting boards can become contaminated with drug-resistant germs, a new study shows. Swiss researchers analyzed 154 cutting boards from University Hospital in Basel and 144 cutting boards from ...
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Foster Farms Chicken Salmonella Outbreak Grows to 524 Sick The huge and long-lasting Foster Farms chicken Salmonella outbreak has now sickened at least 524 people in 25 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using the multiplier of 30.3, that means that at least 15,877 people ...
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