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Scientists in Israel say they have managed to turn patients' own skin cells into heart muscle in the lab.
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Only couples who negotiate a new 'healthy' diet make progress. Otherwise, men tend to slink off to an all-you-can-eat buffet, say University of Michigan researchers.
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VIENNA (AP) -- A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation.......(more)
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When it comes to middle age, routine prostate cancer screening tests are to men what mammograms are to women. However, a federal task force believes administering the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test on a routine basis to healthy middle-aged men is a waste of time.
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GENEVA (AP) -- Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general....
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PARIS (Reuters) - The meteoric rise of a natural, healthy alternative to sugar - a holy grail for the food industry - might just be a little too good to be true. In two years stevia, a plant used for centuries by Paraguay's Guarani Indians, has...(more)
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Stroke victims given a clot-busting drug after an attack recover better than those who do not receive the treatment, an Edinburgh study suggests.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least three illegal miners were killed and 18 others trapped underground when a tunnel collapsed in a disused diamond mine in South Africa's Northern Cape province, police said on Wednesday. "One man was rescued and he survived the incident. Three are confirmed...(more)
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish biopharma firm Neurosearch A/S said on Wednesday charges of share price manipulation had been filed against it, but it denied the allegations and said it was working with the authorities to clear up the matter. Neurosearch said the charges were related to...(more)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Howard Dubowitz, a Maryland pediatrician and researcher who specializes in child protection issues, knows how hard it can be to raise other people's children. Over the years while talking with grandparents and others who take on the role of guardian when parents struggle,...(more)
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.
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The heart cells created from patients' skin were at the same stage of development as those of a newborn babyScientists have turned skin tissue from heart attack patients into fresh, beating heart cells in a first step towards a new therapy for the condition.The procedure may...(more)
