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Five-Minute Survey Can Help Predict Lung Cancer (HealthDay) PDF Print E-mail
Written by MD Uddin   
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:52
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A simple questionnaire can identify patients at high risk for lung cancer, researchers say.
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Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancer (AP) PDF Print E-mail
Written by MD Uddin   
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:52

More than 600 Upper Valley JVS students and staff take part in a human Pink Ribbon Project at the Piqua, Ohio campus on Friday, October 30, 2009. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month students donated money to the Relay for Life to become part the human ribbon. The project was done, in part, to honor retiring Upper Valley JVS teacher Connie Hobbs who is currently fighting breast cancer. (AP Photo/The Piqua Daily Call, Mike Ullery)AP - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" — and with him, the family's income.


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Certain antibiotics may up birth defect risk (Reuters) PDF Print E-mail
Written by MD Uddin   
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:52

Medicine is seen in this file photo. Some of the antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections during pregnancy may increase the risk of several birth defects if a woman uses them early in pregnancy, a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows. REUTERS/NewscomReuters - Some of the antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections during pregnancy may increase the risk of several birth defects if a woman uses them early in pregnancy, a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows.


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New vaccine offers hope in Africa's malaria battle (AP) PDF Print E-mail
Written by MD Uddin   
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:52

In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 picture a mother  watches over her child who is suffering from severe malaria in the Siaya hospital in Western Kenya. Both children  are receiving  a blood transfusion.  A new vaccine being tested here is giving the medical community hope that for the first time it will soon be able to reduce by half the number of African children killed by the mosquito-borne disease every year.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.


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Chinese official: Syphilis boom driven by economy (AP) PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:52
AP - China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economic boom to hire more prostitutes, a senior Chinese health official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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