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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
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The decades-long rise in the rate of new breast cancer cases in American women appears to have leveled off, indicating that the nation may have reached a long-sought turning point in the battle against the feared malignancy. |
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
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The Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday overturned a two-year-old policy that many pain specialists said was limiting their ability to properly treat chronically ill patients in need of powerful, morphine-based painkillers. |
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
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Two senators who strongly support human embryonic stem cell research lashed out yesterday at the scientist who recently reported the creation of those cells by a method that does not require the destruction of embryos, saying the scientist and his company have harmed the struggling field by... |
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved for use the first totally implantable artificial heart under a program that will make the complicated, $250,000 device available for as many as 4,000 people. |
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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The resignation of the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services creates a critical vacancy as the Bush administration enters its final two years, a time when skilled political appointees typically think of leaving the government rather than joining it. |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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Virtually no one opposes the goal of the mandatory new federal program governing the use of Accutane: to prevent pregnant women from taking the potent acne drug, approved in 1982, because it causes serious birth defects. Dermatologist Susan Walker, director of the FDA's Division of Dermatology... |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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Today, in that back-to-school spirit, we have homework for you. Yeah, we know, everybody wants something this time of year, but we're the good guys, remember? |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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Memo to: Frustrated parents From: Health section staff At this point your teens may insist that their distractions enhance their studying. According to Poldrack, results from the UCLA study give researchers a good idea that active tasks -- involving "doing" processes, like counting beeps or singing... |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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Children born to fathers of advancing age are at significantly higher risk of developing autism compared with children born to younger fathers, according a comprehensive study published yesterday that offers surprising new insight into one of the most feared disorders of the brain. |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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Want to know just how your morning bowl of bran cereal works to keep you regular? No? We don't blame you, but we're going to tell you anyway. Weak stomachs, be warned: It involves mucus. And, oh yes, rats. |
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