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Health / Top Stories
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BBC News
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Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs.
A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in..
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SF Gate
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The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle.
"That is a first encouraging finding in what has..
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SF Gate
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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is investigating a possible link between Merck's best-selling Singulair and suicide.
FDA said it is reviewing a handful of reports involving mood changes, suicidal behavior and suicide in patients who h..
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SF Gate
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Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the h..
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BBC News
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New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests.
A University of Hull team concluded the drugs actively help only a small group of the most severely depressed.
Marjorie Wallace, head of the mental he..
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MSNBC
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U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society said in a report issued Wednesday.
The group counted 559,312 people who died from cancer.
The cancer deat..
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MSNBC
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Genes that helped early humans adapt to cold climates may be driving metabolism-related diseases such as obesity or diabetes in many countries, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
They found a strong correlation between climate and genetic adaptations t..
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BBC News
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A pioneering treatment for diabetes is being rolled out across the country with experts believing it could eventually lead to a cure.
Six centres are receiving nearly �10m of government funding to offer transplants of insulin-producing cells.
The..
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MSNBC
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Baby shampoos, lotions and powders may expose infants to chemicals that have been linked with possible reproductive problems, a small study suggests.
The chemicals, called phthalates, are found in many ordinary products including cosmetics, toys, vinyl..
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MSNBC
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Common factors emerge
Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, the Army's top psychiatrist and author of the study, said that suicides and attempted suicides "are continuing to rise despite a lot of things we're doing now and have been doing." Ritchie added: "We..
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SF Gate
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A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.
Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients wh..
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SF Gate
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Women in early pregnancy who drink a cup and a half of coffee every day are at greater risk of miscarriage than those who stay away from caffeine, according to a Kaiser Permanente study out of Oakland.
The study, published today in the American Journal..
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MSNBC
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Parents should not give sniffling babies and toddlers over-the-counter cough and cold medicines — they’re too risky for tots so small, the government will declare Thursday.
The Food and Drug Administration still hasn’t decided if the remedies are..
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CNN
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A rare genetic variation dramatically raises the risk of developing autism, a large study showed, opening new research targets for better understanding the disorder and for treating it. Research into the causes of autism has focused on genetic causes beca..
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www.nationalpost.com
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Nova Scotia became the first Canadian province Thursday to ban smoking in vehicles with kids under the age of 19. The new legislation follows a similar, history-making law the Nova Scotia community of Wolfville passed in November.
The new law will come..
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Reuters
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Fever can temporarily unlock autism's grip on children, a finding that could shed light on the roots of the condition and perhaps provide clues for treatment, researchers reported on Monday.
It appears that fever restores nerve cell communications in r..
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SF Gate
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed steps Tuesday to strengthen the government's strategy to battle HIV and AIDS in the United States and the rest of the world, becoming the latest Democratic presidential candidate to commit to a significant expansion of..
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BBC News
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The United Nations has reduced its estimates of how many people are infected with HIV in 2007 from nearly 40m to 33m.
Revised figures for India account for much of the decrease, experts say.
But the rate of new cases and mortality levels are declini..
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MSNBC
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More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year — the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.
“A new U.S. record,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Cente..
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MSNBC
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The white social worker looked at the dark spots on the black child's body and assumed the youngster had been beaten. The family denied it, but the social worker insisted.
It turned out the child had "Mongolian spots" — harmless skin blotches common..
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