Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Jenice Armstrong: Elizabeth Edards: An Everywoman figure
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Jenice Armstrong BEFORE MY FEET even hit the floor yesterday morning, there was a text on my iPhone from an old friend saddened about Elizabeth Edwards' grave medical condition. A few hours later, a colleague stopped by my office for a chat. ...
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FDA Panel Supports New Obesity Drug
WebMD
By Matt McMillen Dec. 7, 2010 -- After back-to-back rejections of drugs targeting obesity in the last six months, an FDA advisory committee today voted 13-7 in favor of approving a new medication aimed at aiding people in losing weight and maintaining ...
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E-Cigarettes Should Be Banned Until Made Safe: Study
BusinessWeek
TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Electronic cigarettes should be banned until safety concerns have been addressed, University of California researchers say. Their study adds more fuel to the controversy over the battery-operated devices that contain ...
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Time for Clinically Relevant Comparative Effectiveness Studies in Type 2 Diabetes
Annals of Internal Medicine
The type 2 diabetes epidemic continues at great human and financial cost (1). Much of the expense that attends diabetes and its care is attributable to the development of long-term complications, such as retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy, ...
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Factbox: Tuberculosis: A worldwide pandemic
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) gave its backing on Wednesday to a new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid which can rapidly diagnose TB, one of the world's biggest killer diseases. * Tuberculosis (TB) is contagious ...
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Is aspirin really a magic bullet for cancer?
Telegraph.co.uk
Anti-inflammatory drugs will prove to be useful, but let's not think we've discovered a panacea – the future of cancer care is much more interesting than that, says Karol Sikora. Old containers of aspirin Photo: AP By Karol Sikora 8:27AM GMT 08 Dec ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
New Test Links Blood Protein to Heart Disease, Diabetes Risk
BusinessWeek
TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The presence of a certain biomarker in the blood is associated with structural heart disease and increased risk of death from all causes, a new study suggests. It goes by the name of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) -- a ...
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