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Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away - CNN

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Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away
CNN - 2 hours ago
By Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba.
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find New York Times
Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesn't stop Alzheimer's Reuters
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TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say - New York Times

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TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By RONI CARYN RABIN Banning fast food advertisements from children?s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the US by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a ...
Censoring Fast-Food TV Ads Might Lower Childhood Obesity Rates eFluxMedia
Study: Banning fast-food TV ads could dent obesity The Associated Press
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Europeans Announce Pioneering Surgery - New York Times

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Europeans Announce Pioneering Surgery
New York Times - 11 hours ago
By ALAN COWELL and DENISE GRADY PARIS - Physicians at four European universities have successfully transplanted a human windpipe, using stem cells from the recipient?s own bone marrow to reline a donor trachea and prevent its rejection by her immune ...
Video: Breakthrough Windpipe Transplant Uses Stem Cells AssociatedPress

1st Trachea Transplant From Stem Cells WebMD
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Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition - New York Times

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Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition
New York Times - 12 hours ago
By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON - The health insurance industry said Wednesday that it would support a health care overhaul requiring insurers to accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability.
The Obama Health Plan Emerges Wall Street Journal
Healthcare Reform Won?t Necessarily Mean a Bigger Pie BNET
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Girl lives 118 days without her heart - Food Consumer

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Girl lives 118 days without her heart
Food Consumer - 58 minutes ago
By Sue Mueller A miracle! An American girl without a heart was kept alive for about four months by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device until she was able to find a donated heart and received the transplant, doctors said Wednesday.
Cardio-tech: Surviving without a heart. That Happened!
Heartless For 118 Days eFluxMedia
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Study: Cincinnati-area employers to shift more health benefits costs - Bizjournals.com

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Study: Cincinnati-area employers to shift more health benefits costs
Bizjournals.com - 5 hours ago
Nearly 30 percent of Cincinnati employers responding to a survey said they would shift health benefit costs to employees next year by raising deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance or out-of-pocket maximums.
Deductibles march higher for employer-provided health insurance Los Angeles Times
Health-Insurance Deductible of $1000 Now Common Wall Street Journal
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Genetic Testing No Real Help in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes - U.S. News & World Report

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Genetic Testing No Real Help in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
U.S. News & World Report - 18 hours ago
By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for 18 different gene variations associated with type 2 diabetes was no better at predicting a person's risk for the blood sugar disease than a doctor's assessment, researchers report.
Genetic Screening May ID Diabetes Risk WebMD
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Amgen, Takeda's Drug for Lung Cancer Suspended After Deaths - Bloomberg

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Amgen, Takeda's Drug for Lung Cancer Suspended After Deaths
Bloomberg - 13 hours ago
By David Olmos Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Amgen Inc.'s decision to suspend a clinical trial of its experimental cancer drug, motesanib, because of higher deaths among patients sets back the company's efforts to expand into the market for oncology ...
Takeda, Amgen to suspend trials of cancer drug Reuters
Amgen suspends trial of cancer drug BusinessWeek
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CORRECTED - Dutch pick Glaxo's Cervarix for vaccine programme - Reuters

CORRECTED - Dutch pick Glaxo's Cervarix for vaccine programme
Reuters - 2 hours ago
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Dutch government has selected GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix for the country's national immunisation programme, the company said on Thursday.
GlaxoSmithKline beats out Merck to supply Netherlands with vaccine Bizjournals.com
Netherlands selects Glaxo cervical cancer vaccine The Associated Press
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Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies - U.S. News & World Report

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Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies
U.S. News & World Report - 18 hours ago
By Randy Dotinga WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finalizes research that changed guidelines around the world regarding when HIV-infected babies should begin drug therapy.
Early HIV Treatment Cuts Babies? Death Risk eFluxMedia
Early Treatment for HIV-Positive Infants Reduces Death Risk by 76 ... Kaiser network.org
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Medicare drug plan switch can save money - San Jose Mercury News

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Medicare drug plan switch can save money
San Jose Mercury News - 7 hours ago
About 30000 people in Santa Cruz County rely on Medicare for prescription drug coverage, and almost all of them will be affected by rate hikes and plan changes that take effect Jan. 1. People can save hundreds to thousands of dollars a year by ...
Drugs.com Helps Seniors Reduce Their Prescription Drug Costs MarketWatch
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Home-Based Programs Benefit Older Cancer Survivors - Washington Post

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Home-Based Programs Benefit Older Cancer Survivors
Washington Post - Nov 18, 2008
TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Home-based programs to get elderly cancer survivors to eat better and exercise more may help them improve their ability to live and function, a new study says.
Regular Exercise Helps Elderly Cancer Survivors SmartAboutHealth
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Scientists Could Find Cure For 'Wolf Boy' - FOXNews

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Scientists Could Find Cure For 'Wolf Boy'
FOXNews - 2 hours ago
It's not easy being a preteen "wolf boy" - but scientists at Columbia University are confident they've finally found the silver bullet that can cure one.
Pruthviraj Patil 'Wolf Boy' Photos: Hypertrichosis Werewolf ... Post Chronicle
'Werewolf boy'in India China Daily
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Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects - CNN

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Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects
CNN - Nov 18, 2008
By Andrea M. Kane ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that infants born as a result of assisted reproductive technology, or ART -- such as in vitro fertilization and the use of donor eggs ...
Birth Defects Tied to Fertility Techniques New York Times
Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects That Happened!
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Three Employees Fired After Patient Chokes on Medicine, Dies - FOXNews

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Three Employees Fired After Patient Chokes on Medicine, Dies
FOXNews - 2 hours ago
GOLDSBORO, NC - North Carolina officials have fired three employees and disciplined others in the death of a patient who was neglected for more than 22 hours at a state-operated mental hospital.
NC hospital fires 3 employees over patient abuse WRAL.com
State officials dismissed 3 after mental patient's death CharlotteObserver.com
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Rendell extends Health Care Cost Containment Council through June - Bizjournals.com

Rendell extends Health Care Cost Containment Council through June
Bizjournals.com - 2 hours ago
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council will continue to operate at least through the end of June by executive order, Gov.
Rendell Approves Funding For Health Care Group WGAL
Rendell spares health care council Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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US panel urges study of antipsychotics in children - Reuters

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US panel urges study of antipsychotics in children
Reuters - 18 hours ago
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A panel of outside experts is calling on the US Food and Drug Administration and other US health agencies to study the long-term effects of prescribing powerful antipsychotic drugs to children.
Panel of Experts Warns FDA of Frequent Use of Antipsychotics in ... Kaiser network.org
Use of Antipsychotics in Children Is Criticized New York Times
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A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins - New York Times

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A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins
New York Times - Nov 17, 2008
By TARA PARKER-POPE David Corcoran, a science editor, explores some of the topics addressed in this week?s Science Times. Judging by recent headlines, you might think so.
Science and Technology Results of landmark statin study revealed Philippine Star
When it comes to statins, don't believe the hype Globe and Mail
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Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey - Reuters

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Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey
Reuters - Nov 17, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine CNN
Primary care doctors in short supply USA Today
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Man Loses Several Pounds of 'Flesh' to Bacterial Infection - FOXNews

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Man Loses Several Pounds of 'Flesh' to Bacterial Infection
FOXNews - Nov 18, 2008
SEATTLE - A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison has won a $300000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.
Wash. pays $300K to man disfigured after prison misdiagnosis USA Today
Wash. prisons, inmate settle disfigured groin case The Associated Press
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