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Protest Closes Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti New York Times By DEBORAH SONTAG PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — After residents of the town of St. Marc demonstrated violently on Tuesday against the construction of a 400-bed cholera treatment center, the government of Haiti asked humanitarian groups to dismantle the ... See all stories on this topic »

Meningitis Booster Is Recommended for 15-Year-Olds New York Times By GARDINER HARRIS ATLANTA — Federal vaccine advisers, by a bare majority, on Wednesday recommended that 15-year-olds be given a booster dose of a vaccine against meningococcal meningitis, a rare but deadly disease that mostly strikes college freshmen. ... See all stories on this topic »

A Glimmer of Hope in a Bad-News Survey About Bullying TIME By Meredith Melnick Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | 0 comments The bad news: half of all high school students, regardless of gender or type of school, say they have bullied someone in the past year, and 47% of students say they have been bullied in a way ... See all stories on this topic »

More People Aware They Have High Blood Pressure WebMD By Bill Hendrick Oct. 27, 2010 -- High blood pressure is a major health problem in the US, but the good news is that the number of people who know they have the condition has been increasing dramatically, the CDC says in a new report. ... See all stories on this topic »

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Cleverest Ways to Draw Attention to Killer CBS News (CBS) If awareness of breast cancer hasn't risen over the past month - Breast Cancer Awareness Month - maybe Americans just aren't paying attention. Pink ribbons are seemingly everywhere, and that's just the beginning. From charities to corporations, ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Pancreatic cancer grows slowly, could be caught Reuters Human tumor cells from the pancreas are seen, stained with an immunocytochemical stain with methyl green in the background and magnified to 400x. By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pancreatic cancer grows slowly, ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

Falling In Love Hits The Brain Like Cocaine Does Medical News Today Falling in love affects intellectual areas of the brain and triggers the same sensation of euphoria experienced by people when they take cocaine, researchers from Syracuse University reveal in an article in Journal of Sexual Medicine. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sepsis can lead to mental, physical decline: study CTV.ca Older adults who develop sepsis — a serious, widespread bacterial infection -- are at risk of declining both mentally and physically in subsequent years, a new study has found. The researchers say their findings suggest the long-term effects of sepsis ... See all stories on this topic »

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