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Campaign Hopes to End Disparities in Breast Cancer Care (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- A grassroots campaign has been launched to increase awareness that breast cancer death rates for minority women in the United States are ...
Nonprofit Nursing Homes Beat For-Profits in Study (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Nonprofit nursing homes in the United States generally provide better care than their for-profit counterparts, says a study in the April ...
Health Tip: Is Your Baby Colicky? (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- If your baby is crying a lot, you should call your doctor. Your pediatrician will want to check your baby to make sure there is no medical reason for the ...
Clinical Trials Update: April 27, 2005 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Zoo Reverses Vasectomy on Bush Dog (AP)
AP - Three yapping, cuddly South American bush dog pups at the Saint Louis Zoo are making fertility history among wild canids, with implications for the rest of the animal world.
Scientists Urge More Attention to Chagas Disease (Reuters)
Reuters - A flare-up of the deadly
Chagas disease in a wealthy southern Brazil state last month
has drawn public attention to an illness that is generally
ignored because it usually strikes ...
Brazil Fights to Lower Leprosy Rate (Reuters)
Reuters - Celio Marques is proud
of his moving hands and gesticulates as he explains how he
counsels Brazilians diagnosed with leprosy on a telephone help
line.
Failure to Adopt New Drugs Fuels Rise of Malaria (Reuters)
Reuters - New drug-resistant strains of malaria
could thwart global efforts to halve malaria deaths by 2010
unless major players in the fight against the disease speed up
the rollout of ...
Africa's Real Killer Diseases Win Little Publicity (Reuters)
Reuters - Africa is a notorious incubator of
frightening, exotic new diseases like Ebola and Marburg, but
the real killers on the world's poorest continent are easily
preventable ...
UN: Don't Let New Viruses Distract from Old Killers (Reuters)
Reuters - A new infectious disease comes along
every year but in looking out for the next big global virus we
risk overlooking less dramatic illnesses that cause millions of
quiet deaths, a ...
Vitamin D Does Not Stop Elderly Fractures -Study
LONDON (Reuters) - Giving vitamin D and calcium supplements to elderly patients who suffer from osteoporosis does not prevent them breaking bones, researchers said on Thursday.
Study Shows Environmental Pollutants Affect Sperm
LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental pollutants from domestic and industrial waste and pesticides could be changing the ratio of sex chromosomes in sperm, researchers said on Thursday.
Aging Global Population Spurs Increase in Cancer
LONDON (Reuters) - An aging population has fueled a rise in cancer and contributed to a doubling in breast and lung cancer cases in the past 30 years, researchers said on Thursday.
Roche's Breast Cancer Drug Gets More Positive Data
ZURICH (Reuters) - Herceptin, a breast cancer drug developed by Roche and its U.S. biotechnology arm Genentech Inc., helps women fight an aggressive form of early-stage breast cancer ...
Glaxo Sees Return for Two Suspended Drugs
LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc expects to get two withdrawn drugs back on the U.S. market in the middle of this year after signing a legal agreement with regulators over a ...
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