Articles filed under Health
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Trial appears successful in melanoma treatmentJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Researchers used 5 billion copies of a single immune cell from a man to wipe out signs of his advanced melanoma for more than two years, according to a report in the New...
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Bugged by germsJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Salmonella infections from tomatoes. Swimming pools contaminated with organisms spread by human waste. Children infected with gastrointestinal illnesses spread by pettin...
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Graduates get creative to find health coverageJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - This year, 1.4 million graduates are tossing their mortarboard caps into the sky and receiving bachelor's degrees. Almost immediately, many will face another rite of pas...
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Your HealthJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - CT no cure-all Screening for lung cancer with CT scans may help reduce lung cancer deaths, but smokers are still at greater risk of dying from other types of cancer, hea...
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Taking aim at muscles you never knew you hadJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Don't let the bow and arrow fool you. Sure, archery isn't as grueling as, say, football. Still this sport is not for slouches - quite literally. In addition to demanding...
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Losing weight could be a matter of coachingJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - When Sharlene Langner won four free sessions with a wellness coach through a local school raffle, she was skeptical. At 5 feet tall and 175 pounds, the Maplewood, N.J., ...
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Study: Uptick in C-sections coincides with rise in preemiesJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - One in eight babies - well over half a million a year - are born premature, a toll that's risen steadily for two decades with no sign of stopping. The government is begi...
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Radiation beats waiting with prostate cancer recurrenceJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Men who have surgery for prostate cancer only to see the illness return are more likely to survive if they get radiation therapy rather than waiting to see how the disea...
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Heart attacks can strike out of the blueJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - My father was planning a trip to Europe one summer afternoon when he went to the bathroom and didn't return. My mother found him dead of a heart attack on the bathroom f...
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Stepping up fight against metabolic syndromeJun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - There are 50 million Americans who have it. Philip J. Kocisco decided he didn't want to be one of them. But at age 38, overweight with high blood pressure and cholestero...