AFP – Australian Hajnal Ban asked doctors to keep her conscious as they broke her legs and attached them to stretching frames because she wanted to remember it as the moment that changed her life.
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AFP – Authorities in Wichita arrested a suspect in the death of a controversial provider of late-term abortions, who was fatally shot as he walked into services at his Kansas church, officials said.
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AFP – Chilean health authorities confirmed 26 new cases of swine flu, raising the number of patients with A(H1N1) virus in the country to 276, the highest number on the continent.
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AFP – Scientists in Britain said Sunday they had found the first genes that are associated with testicular cancer, the commonest form of cancer for men between the ages of 15 and 45.
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AFP – Australian authorities allowed around 2,000 passengers to disembark from a cruise ship caught up in a high-seas swine flu scare, as the number of cases in the country jumped to 302.
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AFP – New therapies developed following groundbreaking clinical trials appear to effectively target breast cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to research unveiled Sunday at a major cancer conference.
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — In a new study, patients with
follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma who received a vaccine made from their own
cancer cells went more than 44 months before relapsing, compared to only
30.6 months for those who didn’t get the vaccine.
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Reuters – Use of menopausal hormone-replacement therapy increases the risk of death from lung cancer by 60 percent after five years, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday.
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Using a combination of the
drugs temsirolimus (Torisel) and Bryostatin appears to be safe in patients
with metastatic kidney cancer, according to early data from 25 patients in
a phase 1 trial.
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — It’s nice to be here. It’s
nice to be anywhere, singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, a
self-described 17-year breast cancer thriver, told reporters at one of
the world’s largest gatherings of cancer specialists on Sunday.
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AP – Contact lens maker Bausch Lomb Inc. had an overriding reason for going private in 2007: It wanted to handle a devastating recall of its flagship lens cleaner, its chief executive said, without a lot of outside distraction.
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Reuters – Drugs that block a cell repair enzyme known as PARP show promise as treatments for some of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of breast cancer, according to new research.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Researchers are reporting their first big successes in getting the immune system to fight cancer, after 30 years of false starts….
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — High-dose folic acid
supplementation improved vascular function in young female runners who
stopped menstruating (amenorrhea) because their caloric intake was lower
than their energy output, researchers say.
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Common antidepressants that
many breast cancer survivors use to dampen the hot flashes caused by
taking tamoxifen may actually boost the odds of the disease’s return, new
research warns.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Contact lens maker Bausch amp; Lomb Inc. had an overriding reason for going private in 2007: It wanted to handle a devastating recall of its flagship lens cleaner, its chief executive said, “without a lot of outside distraction.”…
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Reuters – Experts say the risk of soldiers suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) goes up substantially on their third tour of duty. Sergeant Joseph Huiet is on his sixth.
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AP – Researchers are reporting their first big successes in getting the immune system to fight cancer, after 30 years of false starts.
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — A new blood test greatly
reduces false-positive results in prostate cancer screenings and, when
used in combination with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, could
prevent many unnecessary biopsies, U.S. researchers say.
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AP – Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows….
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AFP – Cancer specialists, gathered for an annual meeting, are reporting progress in the fight against lung cancer, the most common and deadliest form of cancer, but little progress in treating colorectal cancer.
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AFP – Vietnam has recorded its first case of swine flu after a man tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said.
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Reuters – Democratic plans for revamping U.S. healthcare are taking shape, with Senator Edward Kennedy soon to announce a proposal which could form the core of the nation’s new health system.
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AFP – A 23-year-old Vietnamese man has tested positive for swine flu in what would be the the first case in the Southeast Asian nation, a doctor said Sunday.
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