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Cigarette Warnings Turn Gruesome: Have the Health Police Gone Too Far? CBS News (CBS) The FDA has really stepped into it with its gruesome new tobacco warning labels. Some are praising the agency for forcing smokers to confront head-on the health costs of their bad habit. But others - including scores of people who posted comments ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

ADHD Rates Are Increasting MedPage Today By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today More parents are reporting that their children have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at some point in their lives than earlier in the decade, according to the CDC. ... See all stories on this topic »

Spacing Out Half the Day Makes People Unhappy in Harvard Study BusinessWeek By Elizabeth Lopatto Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- People spend almost half of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they're doing, and their daydreaming usually doesn't take them to a happy place, a study reports. ... See all stories on this topic »

Haiti death toll rises as cholera spreads to Port-au-Prince The Guardian The death toll from the cholera epidemic in Haiti has risen to 644, amid fears that the disease could spread rapidly now it has arrived in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The ministry of health said the spread of the disease was "a matter of national ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

3 Million Central Africans Targeted For Massive Polio Vaccination Campaign Medical News Today On November 12th the first wave of a 3-million-people polio immunization campaign starts in Ponte Noire, as well as in the Department of Kouilou, Republic of Congo, and 16 districts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, the World Health ... See all stories on this topic »

Dendreon trades higher on prostate drug review Washington Post By MATTHEW PERRONE AP WASHINGTON -- Shares of biotech drugmaker Dendreon jumped Thursday after Medicare officials issued a mostly positive assessment of the company's prostate cancer therapy, setting the stage for the government to pay for thousands of ... See all stories on this topic »

Doctor Gives Public Mea Culpa After Surgical Mistake ABC News By LARA SALAHI and MIKAELA CONLEY Dr. David Ring, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, had wrapped up his final operation of the day and returned to his office dictate his report. But as he began to record, the enormity of what he had done hit ... See all stories on this topic »

Theratechnologies stock jumps on FDA approval Reuters TORONTO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Shares of Theratechnologies (TH.TO) jumped 15 percent on Thursday after the Canadian pharmaceutical company won US regulatory approval of its HIV-related drug. The US Food and Drug Administration announced late on Wednesday ... See all stories on this topic »

$11.5M NCI Award to Fund Hutchinson-led Consortium's Research GenomeWeb Daily News By a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will lead a five-year, Seattle-based research consortium focused on preventing, detecting, and treating breast cancer, using an $11.5 million award ... See all stories on this topic »

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