Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Analysis: Cholera, tensions contaminate Haiti's path to polls
Reuters
By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A post-earthquake cholera epidemic, fears of political violence and vote credibility questions are clouding Haiti's path to elections next month seen as crucial for stability in the Western Hemisphere's ...
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Brisk walkers have lower breast cancer risk
Reuters
By Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who take brisk walks regularly have a lower risk of developing breast cancer after menopause -- and it's never too late to start, new study findings suggest. Reviewing data collected from nearly 100000 ...
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Fewer may get flu shots this year, surveys find
USA Today
By Scott Salisbury, AP By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Only a year after the swine-flu pandemic led Americans to line up for flu shots, many people are now spurning vaccines, two studies suggest. Only 37% of people plan to definitely get vaccinated this year, ...
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Pancreatic Cancer Grows More Slowly Than Thought
WebMD
By Salynn Boyles Oct. 27, 2010 -- Pancreatic cancer is among the most lethal malignancies, with fewer than 5% of patients still alive five years after diagnosis. It has long been suspected the disease is so deadly because it grows so quickly, ...
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New Drug Shows Promise Against Certain Lung Cancers
U.S. News & World Report
By Jenifer Goodwin WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental cancer drug is proving effective in treating the lung cancers of some patients whose tumors carry a certain genetic mutation, new studies show. Because the mutation can be ...
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Vaccine panel expands whooping cough coverage
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - An independent US advisory panel is amending its recommendations for booster vaccines to prevent whooping cough and expand protection from the disease that has made a comeback in several US states. ...
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1000 Genomes Project reveals human variation
Nature.com
A project to sequence hundreds of human genomes has found millions of gene variants.L. WILLATT, EAST ANGLIAN REGIONAL GENETICS SERVICE / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The long-awaited results from the pilot phase of the first large-scale initiative to sequence ...
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