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The latest face of Chile's HIV crisis is a woman with no face at all. Hidden behind dark glasses, her head swathed in a shawl to hide her identity, the 25-year-old woman known as "Lorena" or "L.C.C." filed a lawsuit in the city of San...(more)
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The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe nears 300 as the water and sanitation situation "worsens", the UN says.
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An implant which works by firing infrared light into the inner ear is being investigated by US researchers.
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Reuters - Like many other elderly Americans, Edie Stark has been hard hit by the meltdown in U.S. financial markets. She is 84 and has been worried a lot lately about outliving her savings.
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Reuters - Women who are heavy in their middle years are at greater risk of Alzheimer's disease, especially if they have large waists. However, for men, being underweight during that period of life actually increases the likelihood of developing the degenerative brain disease, researchers report in...(more)
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Reuters - Diets high in saturated fat appear to increase the risk of cancer of the small intestine, a study shows.
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Reuters - Children born "small for gestational age" -- that is, significantly smaller than most babies born after the same number of weeks of pregnancy -- appear to be at increased risk for rapid gains in weight and body fat during adulthood, researchers from Paris, France...(more)
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Autism is a childhood developmental disorder that has no cure. Autistic children have problems with social interaction, communication, and may engage in repetitive behaviors.
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Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.
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A large clinical trial of almost 15,000 men taking vitamins E and C for up to 10 years has found that neither supplement had any effect on cancer rates.
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Parents of children whose organs were removed at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital have until May to reclaim their body parts.
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The health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that gives covered patients the option of going to India for elective surgery.
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