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Commentary: Too much is unknown about year-old health care law
Kansas City Star
What we've got here is a failure to communicate, said both the captain and the chain gang prisoner in the 1967 movie "Cool Hand Luke." The same could be said about the year-old Affordable Care Act. Americans still have little idea how they can take ...
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Serotonin sex bomb: How to make a mouse bisexual or just really horny
CBS News
(CBS) Scientists aren't sure whether they have figured out how to make mice bisexual or just so horny that they will mount whatever happens to saunter in their cage, but a fascinating study out of China sheds new light on the role of serotonin in ...
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CBS News
Texas man gets first full face transplant in US
Sify
A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of smiling again and feeling kisses from his 3-year-old daughter. Dallas Wiens, 25, received a new nose, lips, skin, ...
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No link between mercury in fish and heart disease found in study
Baltimore Sun
By Mary Forgione, Tribune Health Eat fish. And don't stress -- overly much -- about the potential effect of its mercury level on your risk of cardiovascular disease. That ultimately might be the lesson from a new study assessing the effect of mercury ...
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Baltimore Sun
Sperm grown in laboratory, raising hopes of male infertility treatments
The Guardian
A human egg surrounded by sperm. The new technique could one day create sperm for men who can't make them normally. Photograph: Rich Frishman/Getty Scientists have grown sperm in the laboratory in a landmark study that could help preserve the fertility ...
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The Guardian
A Cancer Patient's Quest Hits DNA Pay Dirt
Forbes (blog)
By MATTHEW HERPER Kathy Giusti has faced her cancer with the verve of an entrepreneur. Now her fight with multiple myeloma has moved to a new front: DNA. Giusti was a 37-year-old marketing executive at Searle (now part of Pfizer) when she was diagnosed ...
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Forbes (blog)
San Bernardino County Supervisors vote to ban marijuana dispensaries
Fontana Herald-News
By ALEJANDRO CANO After more than two hours of listening to area residents' arguments in favor of medical marijuana, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to ban dispensaries and limit patients' ability to grow marijuana ...
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China Issues Nationwide Restrictions on Smoking
New York Times
By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — China, the world's largest tobacco producer and home to a third of humanity's smokers, has issued a national ban on lighting up in hotels, restaurants and other indoor public spaces, the Health Ministry said Thursday. ...
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Tuberculosis cases at an all-time low in the US, the CDC says
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times The number of tuberculosis cases in the United States reached an all-time low last year, with only 11181 cases reported to public health authorities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
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Faith and Fat: Religious Youths More Likely to Be Obese by Mid-Life
ABC News
By COURTNEY HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit According to research from Northwestern University, youths of a healthy weight who frequently participated in religious activities were twice as likely to become obese by middle age than their less-religious ...
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Pill stops move to Type 2 diabetes
CBC.ca
Tyrone Harvey talks with Dr. Gail Nunlee-Bland about managing his diabetes. The drug pioglitazone works to control blood sugar by making patients more sensitive to their own insulin, researchers say. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) (Note:CBC does ...
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CBC.ca
Sudden Exercise Poses Heart Risk for Sedentary People
Voice of America
For years, experts have said that one way to reduce your risk of heart attack is to get regular exercise. A new study indicates that if you don't follow that regular-exercise advice, a sudden bout of energetic activity can trigger a heart attack. ...
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Survey: Your Biggest Regrets, and How to Make Them Work for You
TIME
By Meredith Melnick Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 0 comments Regret is as universal an emotion as love or fear, and it can be nearly as powerful. So, in a new paper, two researchers set about trying to figure out what the typical American regrets most. ...
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Pupil nut allergy: School eases up on restrictions
Seattle Times
A Florida elementary school beset by parental protests is scrapping some of the more severe restrictions it had implemented to protect a first-grader with a severe allergy to nuts, such as obliging classmates to rinse their mouths twice daily with ...
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Company will no longer seek approval for dutasteride (Avodart) to prevent ...
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline said late Wednesday it would no longer seek approval to market its drug dutasteride (Avodart) for the prevention of prostate cancer. The company's announcement comes ...
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Affidavit details charges, investigation against Dr. Linares
Monroe Evening News
by Ray Kisonas , last modified March 24. 2011 12:09PM — Evening News photo by BRYAN BOSCH A man who authorities identified as a lawyer for Dr. Oscar A. Linares talks on a cell phone Wednesday outside the Monroe Pain Center, 14750 LaPlaisance Rd., ...
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Debate Over Health Care Law Rolls Into Pa. Capitol
WSLS
By MARC LEVY, AP | (AP) HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The debate over the federal health care law came to Pennsylvania's Capitol on the law's first anniversary. Gov. Tom Corbett registered a number of complaints Wednesday about the law to a committee of two ...
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Pfizer Drug Slows Pancreatic Tumors in New Attack on Cancer
BusinessWeek
By Tom Randall March 24 (Bloomberg) -- An experimental drug made by Pfizer Inc. slowed deadly pancreatic cancer in a study that revealed a new treatment approach that tricks the immune system to attack tissue protecting tumors, researchers said. ...
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Pricey Asthma Drug Shows Potential In Easing Children's Milk Allergies
NPR (blog)
by Adam Cole Contrary to what you might think, the most common food allergen for young children isn't peanuts — it's the protein in cow's milk. Reactions vary, but can be severe: hives, vomiting, and sometimes life-threatening anaphylactic shock. ...
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