Monthly Archives: May 2009
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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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NEW YORK -- Six more public schools are shutting down as New York City continues combatting swine flu.
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ATLANTA – Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.
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FRIDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) --Taking aspirin reduces heart attack risk in people with no previous history of vascular disease but increases the risk of internal bleeding, say British researchers who analyzed the results of 22 clinical trials.
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CAEN, France (AFP) – An American official sent to France to help prepare President Barack Obama's visit to D-Day landing beaches next week has been hospitalised for swine flu but is doing well, officials said on Friday.
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NEW YORK – A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th.
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Spain is the third European country with more fertility treatment, reaching 50,000 assisted reproductive cycles per year.
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Over 35% of children suffer from head lice in the summer camps. With Quit Nits Advance, the only treatment without chemical pesticides, are removed all the lice and nits in just one day with an application of 2 hours
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico City lowered its swine flu alert level from yellow to green on Thursday, and the mayor said "we can relax" now that there have been no new infections for a week.
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LONDON – Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said it has offered to donate 50 million doses of a pandemic vaccine to the World Health Organization in the event of a global flu outbreak, according to a company spokesman.