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Answering an Appeal by Mao Led Tu Youyou, a Chinese Scientist, to a Nobel Prize BEIJING - During the upheaval of China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, when many of the country's Western-trained scientists were shunned and persecuted, the government had an urgent scientific problem that needed attention.
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FDA Approves Personalized Lung Cancer Immunotherapy With New Kind of CDx NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) - The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first lung cancer immunotherapy drug for a molecularly-defined subset of patients.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 Scientists for Parasite-Fighting Therapies Three scientists who used modern laboratory techniques to discover anti-parasitic drugs long hidden in herbs and soil won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
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UK end-of-life care 'best in world' End-of-life care in the UK has been ranked as the best in the world with a study praising the quality and availability of services.
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Palliative Care Is a Human Right My mother died of cancer 10 years ago. The last week of her life was spent in the hospital. She was admitted on Thursday and died on Tuesday.
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Govt urged to make Aids 'treatment for all' a reality INTERNATIONAL humanitarian medical provider, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has challenged African governments to make HIV and Aids "treatment for all" a reality.
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WHO May Offer Treatment to all People Living With HIV The new WHO guidelines suggest that all AIDS sufferers should be put immediately on antiretroviral therapy. A new HIV treatment protocol has been announced by the World Health Organization.
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San Francisco Is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't his first broken condom, so Rafael didn't worry. But three weeks later, the man he'd met in a bar called to say that he had "probably been exposed" to H.I.
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Local school districts offering flu vaccines With flu season looming on the horizon, the Arkansas Department of Health is partnering with local school districts again to offer free flu vaccines to children and staff.
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Flu-clinic season gets underway Unfortunately, it won't be long before the flu will be, too, so flu vaccination clinics are being scheduled. Here's a list of this week's clinics going on throughout the Quad-Cities area: Rock Island County.
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Doctors anticipate nasty flu season WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - It's officially flu season. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu activity is currently low across the United States, but outbreaks can begin in October.
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Roche says data shows Cotellic combination therapy effective ZURICH Swiss drugmaker Roche said final survival data from a Phase III clinical trial showed the Cotellic drug used in combination with Zelboraf helped people with previously untreated BRAF V600 mutation-positive advanced melanoma live significantly ...
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Cancer Drug Helps Sharpen Memory A recent study suggests that a cancer drug may help to sharpen memory. (not pictured here) (Photo : Flickr). Could a cancer drug actually make your memory sharper?
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Watch John Oliver's Brilliant Segment on the Mental Health System With many news reports categorizing the recent mass shooting in Oregon as the work of yet another mentally ill person wielding a gun, John Oliver is refusing to follow that narrative.... email · print. Comment. By TV Guide. recordnet.com. By TV Guide.
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Oliver: Mental Illness Rarely Kills People. Guns Often Do But, as John Oliver pointed out on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, as the tragedies fade, these politicians' interest in our mental health system seems to disappear overnight.
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Gene Therapy for Visually Impaired Shows Promise Biotechnology startup Spark Therapeutics Inc. ONCE 20.69 % said its experimental gene therapy improved vision among patients with hereditary vision impairment in a clinical trial, without the serious safety problems that have dogged the emerging field ...
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Spark Therapeutics Receives "Buy" Rating from Cowen and Company (ONCE) Spark Therapeutics logo Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ONCE)'s stock had its "buy" rating restated by stock analysts at Cowen and Company in a research report issued on Monday, AnalystRatingsNetwork.
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We're a step closer to curing some genetic diseases with a single treatment After two rather miserable weeks for the biotechnology industry, one company got a pretty excellent piece of news: Spark Therapeutics, a Philadelphia based biotechnology company that went public earlier this year, announced that its experimental ...
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Kennedy's book is Step 4 on path to recovery, redemption Exposing the foibles of the Kennedy family has been a cottage industry since old Joe Kennedy made a bundle during Prohibition and caught a glimpse of Gloria Swanson.
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Water filter giveaway branches out to four Flint locations FLINT, MI -- The effort to get lead-clearing water filters into homes is about to branch out to more locations, including Flint public housing.
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An Ounce of Prevention: Breast cancer - prevention is the cure Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is once again here. From its inception in America in 1985, it has focused on the early detection of breast cancer, mainly by regular mammogram testing, as the most effective ...
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Congress and Obama Administration Seek Ways to Limit Increase in Medicare Premiums WASHINGTON - Congress and the Obama administration are frantically seeking ways to hold down Medicare premiums that could rise by roughly 50 percent for some beneficiaries next year, according to lawmakers and Medicare officials.
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Calling Your Grandma Doesn't Cut It, Study Suggests Research shows that face time—not FaceTime—is the best way to fend off the blues. A study published Monday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society notes that there are remarkable benefits to being physically present with a loved one—and ...
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Teal is the new orange for Halloween pumpkins Teal is the new orange this Halloween for many families. A national campaign, called the Teal Pumpkin Project, is encouraging parents to offer non-food treats for children with food allergies and to mark their intent by placing a teal-colored pumpkin ...
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Here's why the NFL's annual pink campaign does almost nothing to fight breast ... All this month NFL fans will see pink on the football field for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Houston Texans' most vibrant pink publicity will be on display for national audiences when the struggling team takes on the Indianapolis Colts on ...
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New study provides first-ever blueprint for exercise in a bottle Researchers in Australia may have cracked the code to what could become the world's first exercise pill, a new study says. The study, published in Cell Metabolism, found about 1,000 different molecular changes that take place in human muscles when we ...
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Arkansas Sportsman Chronic wasting disease could affect state hunting Despite heroic efforts to keep chronic wasting disease out of Arkansas, its appearance is probably inevitable, according to our state's chief deer biologist.
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Campus researchers find correlation between bedtime, weight gain UC Berkeley researchers have conducted a study that suggests teens and adults who go to bed late at night tend to gain weight more easily even when they sleep more hours.
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Your height may be a clue to cancer risk For every 4 additional inches of adult height, the study found that cancer risk was linked to an 18 percent increased cancer risk in women and 11 percent in men.
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FDA asks duodenoscopes makers to study success of cleaning guide The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered three Japanese manufacturers of duodenoscopes to conduct studies to evaluate how the devices are being used, as part of its effort to prevent the transmission of infections through the device.
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Oregon shooting: Douglas County mental health services fractured over years Before Hilkka Bartlett moved from northern California to Roseburg, she researched mental health facilities for her son, who suffers from schizophrenia.
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Scientists create blueprint for developing 'exercise in a bottle' drug that ... What good stuff happens to your body, exactly, when you jump on that treadmill or bend into that downward dog for yoga? For decades, scientists have been emphasizing the importance of exercise for good health but how it works beyond the obvious ...
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ADDING MULTIMEDIA FDA Approves ARISTADA™ for Treatment of Schizophrenia DUBLIN, Oct 05, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alkermes plc ALKS, -1.17% today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ARISTADA™ (aripiprazole lauroxil) extended-release injectable suspension for the treatment of ...
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Axovant Sciences Downgraded by Zacks to "Sell" (AXON) Axovant Sciences logo Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ:AXON) was downgraded by Zacks from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday, Market Beat.
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Factcheck: Gun laws, death and crime Guns for sale are displayed in Roseburg Gun Shop in Roseburg, Oregon, United States, October 3, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson. Travel Deals.
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Hand-Washing Dishes Can Improve State Of Mind, Melt Stress: Study New research shows that washing dishes by hand including plates, bowls, and glasses might help to relieve stress levels if the person gets in a particular state of mind by living in the moment and focusing on the task at hand.
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Ethicist: The ACLU is Right to Sue Catholic Hospitals The visit to the United States by Pope Francis left a lot of goodwill behind. But there are areas where that goodwill slams into a church-state wall.
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Protection against flu urged now October means it's time for autumn leaves, pumpkins, and festivals, but also the potential onset of the 2015-16 influenza season.
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VIDEO: Meet TLC's The Man with No Penis, Andrew Wardle Andrew Wardle was born with bladder exstrophy, an abnormality that caused his bladder to form on the outside of his body, leaving him without a penis.
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SCDOT Worker Among 5 Killed in Flooding At least five people--including a state employee working to rescue people--died in the record flooding in Richland County Sunday. Loading… Post to Facebook.
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Albany Legislator: Raise smoking age to 21 County Legislator Tim Nichols wants Albany County to follow New York City's lead and raise the age to buy to tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to 21.
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Relay For Life of Sevier County Holding Kickoff Event The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Sevier County is kicking off its annual event and invites everyone to come and learn about how to help the American Cancer Society save more lives from cancer.
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Supporting Your Son Through Depression By responding appropriately to your son's depression, you will give him the strength to take the first step in treating his depression.
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UK will perform the first womb transplant, after success in Sweden. London, UK - After the success of Swedish doctors, a total of 10 womb transplants will be completed as part of a clinical trial in the United Kingdom.
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Infants with four "good" gut bacteria unlikely to have asthma New research shows that babies who lack certain "good" bacteria in their intestines in the first months of life may be at higher risk of asthma.
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Many Catholic hospitals left on the outside of OMNIA looking in An increasing number of voices have emerged in opposition to the new tiered plan created by a partnership of the largest health systems in the state.
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FDA Warns St. Jude About Nonconforming Manufacturing Practices at Atlanta Plant St. Jude Medical has received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration citing manufacturing "non-conformities" at the Atlanta plant where it makes one of its most promising devices, pulmonary-artery pressure monitor CardioMEMS.
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