Thursday, October 28, 2010

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Plastics Chemical BPA Tied to Poor Sperm Quality
U.S. News & World Report
THURSDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Men with high amounts of the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in their urine also tend to have impaired semen quality, a new study of factory workers in China reveals. The research, funded by the ...
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Cholera Prevention Efforts Intensify in Haiti
Voice of America
Photo: AP UN peacekeepers from Guatemala take a sample of excrement next to the Nepali UN base in Mirebalais, 27 Oct 2010. UN investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste flowing persistent accusations that excrement from a Nepalese peacekeeping ...
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Breast cancer activists march on Jerusalem's Old City
AFP
JERUSALEM — An army of pink and white was deployed round the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday as thousands of people, most of them women, marched to raise awareness about breast cancer. The sponsored walk, organised by international breast ...
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Exact Sciences' Colon-Cancer Test Hits Mark In Study
Wall Street Journal
By Jennifer Cummings Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A study released Thursday raised expectations that Exact Sciences Corp.'s (EXAS) DNA-based colon-cancer screening test could one day become a key supplement to the dreaded colonoscopy. ...
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Toronto expects a 'regular' flu season, doctor says
CTV.ca
Toronto's seasonal flu clinics opened for business on Thursday, featuring a new vaccine that contains three strains of the virus. One of those strains will be H1N1, the virus that caused the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic last year. ...
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1000 Genomes Pilot a Hit With Geneticists
U.S. News & World Report
By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News The average person walks around with defective copies of 250 to 300 genes, a new close-up snapshot of human genetic diversity reveals, on top of about 75 DNA variants associated with disease. ...
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Six Questions About Health Reform And The Midterm Elections
WBUR
What are the lawmakers, and other state and federal officials, up to when it comes to health reform laws? News you can use, carefully digested and curated. News on the state's largest health insurers; the effects of health care reform on coverage; ...
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Experts wrestle with vaccinating boys for HPV
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - US vaccine advisers are weighing whether boys and young men should be vaccinated against the human wart virus that causes a number of cancers, but some worry the vaccine is too costly to justify its use. ...
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