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24.10.2006 - The heart-protective benefits of eating seafood can outweigh the harm from mercury and other contaminants that accumulate in fish, according to two major U.S. studies intended to resolve the confusing dietary advice that consumers have received on eating seafood. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Invisibility has long been the stuff of fantasy. But scientists led by a team at Duke University have demonstrated a technology that could be a small step in the right misdirection. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Some physicians worry that children are at higher risk of early puberty as a result of the increasing prevalence of certain drugs, cosmetics and environmental contaminants that can cause breast growth, pubic hair development and other symptoms of puberty. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Invisibility has long been the stuff of fantasy, but scientists led by a team at Duke University in North Carolina have demonstrated a technology that could be a small step in the right misdirection. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Virtual laboratories have become a widely used science teaching tool. But a dispute with potentially far-reaching consequences has flared over how far the Internet can go in displacing the brick-and-mortar laboratory. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - If you don't pay attention to calories when deciding how much of something to eat, you might want to know that the chefs serving it to you don't either. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The spread of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, is slowing down in India with only two deaths reported across the country in the past day, a health official said Monday. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The "Freshman 15" is more like 5 to 7, but it is followed by the "Sophomore 2 or 3," say researchers who led two of the largest and longest studies ever done of weight gain among college students. The research also showed that males piled on significantly more pounds than females. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - AstraZeneca PLC said Monday that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new formulation of its popular Seroquel schizophrenia treatment, making it the first medicine to treat both the manic and depressive sides of bipolar disorder. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The Israeli Health Ministry said Monday that a French flu vaccine did not kill four people who died shortly after being inoculated, and ordered resumption of vaccinations. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - A virus probably caused at least 36 people to suffer flu-like symptoms last week while taking a riverboat cruise down the Ohio River, a health official said Monday. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Think preschoolers don't know geography? Drive 'em to the pediatrician's office. Starting around age 2, they're crying before you make the final turn into the parking lot - they remember where they get shots. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Fatty tissue may decrease the body's ability to kill off cancer, says a study that found making mice leaner - through exercise or surgery - seemed to help them fight skin tumors. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - New research on vegetables and aging gives mothers another reason to say "I told you so." It found that eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - With American obesity at record levels, it might seem only a miracle can get people fit. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Diabetics gained a new way of controlling their blood sugar levels Tuesday with federal approval of a novel pill for Type 2 diabetes, which affects about 20 million Americans. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - State and local elected officials called yesterday for hearings into the conduct of Philadelphia's Department of Human Services (DHS), the $600 million agency that investigates child abuse.
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24.10.2006 - CHICAGO - The teenager said the stabbing pains in her face felt like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Federal regulators approved a new diabetes drug yesterday with two kinds of beneficiaries: millions of people struggling to control their disease, and the drug giant Merck & Co. Inc. laboring to revive its fortunes. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will announce Thursday it is expanding a program offering $4 prescriptions for some generic drugs to 14 more states, including New Jersey, two weeks after rolling out the low-cost program in Florida. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Pennsylvania's welfare secretary is reviewing the actions of the city Department of Human Services in the wake of The Inquirer's report about child-abuse deaths, she said yesterday. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - The state environmental commissioner said yesterday that the owners of the Kiddie Kollege building must have known that the day-care site was tainted with mercury because their own representatives had reviewed documents in her office saying just that. The review took place before Kiddie Kollege opened in a former thermometer factory in 2004. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Once upon a time, if Stanford professor Peter P. Lee's paper on leukemia was not accepted by a journal, it would be banished to academic oblivion. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Army plans to dispose of caustic waste from the lethal VX nerve agent into the Delaware River have been halted - at least temporarily - by a new federal law. Read more…
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24.10.2006 - Mayor Street forced out two top officials at the city's child-welfare agency yesterday, acknowledging that his administration had not done enough to protect children from being killed by child abuse. Read more…
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