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| Insurers pulling the plug on coverage for thousands of Texas children Houston Chronicle By TODD ACKERMAN Tens of thousands of Texas children will be directly affected by the 11th-hour decision of a number of major health insurance companies to stop selling child-only policies rather than comply with the new federal law that requires they ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mammograms questioned Boston Globe By Gina Kolata NEW YORK — A study suggests that increased awareness and improved treatments rather than mammograms are the main force in reducing the breast cancer death rate. Although most US women get a mammogram every year, the study suggests the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Edwards Valve Extends Life, Means First Therapy for Frail Heart Patients Bloomberg By David Olmos and Michelle Fay Cortez - Thu Sep 23 04:01:00 GMT 2010 Edwards Lifesciences Corp.'s Sapien heart valve may become the first life-saving treatment in the US for frail, elderly patients with diseased valves after a study found it slashed ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FDA Panel Can't Make Heads or Tails of Genetically Modified Salmon TIME By Meredith Melnick Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | 0 comments As you've probably heard by now, the first genetically engineered animal grown for food may soon be on the market. But not quite yet. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Novartis gets OK for pill to treat MS Boston Globe Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis won approval from the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to sell its multiple sclerosis medicine Gilenya, beating Merck in a race to market the first pill to slow the crippling disease. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| $40 billion promised at UN for maternal, child health Toronto Star A health worker wraps a baby that was born minutes before as the mother looks on at the government maternity hospital in Katmandu, Nepal. As the UN hosts a summit to review progress in easing the world's humanitarian crises, it faces a troubling ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Malaria in Humans May Have Originated in Gorillas CalorieLab Calorie Counter News Researches have demonstrated that the most common strain of malaria in humans is almost identical to one of the strains present in gorillas, suggesting the parasite may have jumped from them to a human. Researchers looked at the DNA of malaria in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Towns to take part in drug take-back Cape Cod Times By Cynthia Mccormick Nearly a dozen Cape police stations are cooperating with the US Drug Enforcement Administration to collect expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs Saturday before they end up in the hands of thieves or children or in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men TIME By Meredith Melnick Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | 0 comments On the tail of yesterday's finding that teenage girls get more weight-reduction surgeries than their male counterparts is a possible explanation: it costs a lot more for them to be obese. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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