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Dementia costs hit $604 billion in 2010
Reuters
By Kate Kelland and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The worldwide costs of dementia will reach $604 billion in 2010, more than one percent of global GDP output, and those costs will soar as the number of sufferers triples by 2050, ...
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Fears over modified salmon voiced
Washington Post
By Lyndsey Layton Environmental organizations, consumer groups and independent researchers assailed the plans of a Massachusetts company to market the first genetically modified animal as food in the United States - an Atlantic salmon - and argued at a ...
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Study: Flu shot may help prevent heart attacks
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- A flu shot can do more than just fight against influenza, a new study suggests. It may also fight against heart attacks. Adults who take the flu vaccine may be less likely to get their first heart attack the next year, ...
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Genentech's Napoleone Ferrara wins Lasker Award
San Francisco Chronicle
A Genentech scientist has been named a winner of one of this year's coveted Lasker Awards for research that ultimately led to development of a drug to halt vision loss - and even restore some sight - in people who suffer from an age-related disease ...
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Skip sunbathing, use tanning lotion, doctors say
Reuters
By Frederik Joelving NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Armed with a fake tan, government-funded researchers have found they can get women to cut back on sunbathing. The message is an old one, despite the new looks: too much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation ...
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Health care reforms kick in Thursday
San Jose Mercury News
By Sandy Kleffman Six months after passage of the federal health reform law, major provisions will kick in that supporters say will make it easier for Americans to get and keep health insurance, including young people like Romiti. ...
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Leftover medicine? DEA's happy to take it
Houston Chronicle
By LISE OLSEN The Drug Enforcement Administration wants your drugs, that is, your prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Across the country on Saturday, the DEA is asking residents to turn over unused, unwanted and potentially lethal medications as ...
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Swallowing disc batteries is a bad idea -- and so is delaying treatment, study ...
Los Angeles Times
Note to pediatricians: Swallowed batteries damage children's insides alarmingly fast and need to be treated as quickly as possible, say the authors of a study in the September issue of the Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery. ...
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