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RPT-Latin America threatened by mounting cancer epidemic- study
Reuters(Repeats for wider subscribers) * Healthcare access lagging, treatment costs rising * Both structural, short-term reforms needed By Asher Levine SAO PAULO, April 26 (Reuters) - Latin America's growing prosperity is fueling a cancer epidemic that...Tags: Science and Technology, Healthcare Access, Medical Research, Oncology, Healthcare Policies
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Newtown Victims To Now Divide $7.7 Million
The Hartford CourantAs a federal judge, Alan Nevas was used to dealing with everything from long-term oversight of state agencies to sentencing drug dealers. But, he said Thursday, nothing compares to the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The...Tags: United Way , Executive Branch, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Psychiatric insurance approval takes time in ERs
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors spend about 40 minutes getting approvals from insurance companies to get a psychiatric patient from the emergency room to a hospital bed, according to a new study. In some cases, the researchers found the approval...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Psychiatry, Insurance, Glen Burnie
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U.S. judge widens 'morning-after' pill access for young girls
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration...Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, Gynecology, Religion and Belief, Birth Control, Plan B (drug)
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In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath
Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Al-Qaeda, Internal Medicine, Religion and Belief, Jihad
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Yoga might help boost mental health
As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you're not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you're also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Yoga...
Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Symptoms, Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia, Chemical Industry
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Saving precious memories: Experts talk brain breakthroughs [Live]
Got burning questions about how memories are made and stored in the brain? You are in luck: Two prominent neuroscientists are taking questions from the public about memory and the brain on Google Chat today and you can watch it live, here. The hangout...Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Google Inc., Alzheimer's Disease
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Food as medicine? What to make of the claims.
What's a healthful food and what's a healing food? Is there a difference? At least since the mid-19th century, when the Battle Creek Sanitarium opened its doors and people flocked there to follow John Harvey Kellogg's regime of whole grains, nuts and...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Vegan Diet, Religion and Belief, Philosophy, Whole Foods Market
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O's doctor becomes defense target in Angelos asbestos case
The Orioles' team doctor, William H. Goldiner, tended to orange-clad ballplayers at the same time as he diagnosed thousands of blue-collar workers with asbestos-related illnesses whose cases were taken up by prominent lawyer and team owner Peter G....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Internal Medicine, Peter G. Angelos, Union Carbide Corp.
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Are expired medications still safe?
It is 2 a.m. and that cough and stuffy nose you have been battling is still keeping you up. You reach for the nighttime cold relief medicine only to find it expired a few months ago. If you take a dose to ease your symptoms, will you be putting yourself...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Over-the-Counter Medicines, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Military
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Psychological effects of bullying can last years
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who were bullied and acted as bullies themselves were at higher risk for depression, anxiety and panic disorder years down the line, in a new study. Researchers have known that bullying can take a psychological toll on...Tags: Medical Specialization, Duke University, Family, Psychiatry, Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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Almost one-third of chemotherapy used 'off-label'
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one-third of chemotherapies are used to fight cancers that drug regulators never approved them to treat, says a new study. Chemotherapies - drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells - are approved by the Food and Drug...Tags: University of Chicago, Biotechnology, Medical Specialization, Drugs and Medicines, Science and Technology
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