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Arizona Girl, 5, Diagnosed With Deadly Melanoma
FOXNews.com - Jul 25, 2008, 10:19 AM, Fri
Five-year-old Ashley Garcia of Phoenix, Ariz., has the deadliest form of skin cancer ?- melanoma.
Source URL: http://www.foxnews.com
'X-Files' Inspires Woman With Neurological Disorder
FOXNews.com - Jul 25, 2008, 08:46 AM, Fri
Kathey Green can barely walk, but when she enters the movie theater Friday to see the new X-Files movie, she will. The FOX TV series has given her courage.
Source URL: http://www.foxnews.com
Catholic groups ask pope to end contraception ban
Reuters - Jul 25, 2008, 08:34 AM, Fri
ROME (Reuters) - More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published an unusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict on Friday saying the Church's ban on contraception had been "catastrophic" and urging him to lift it.
Source URL: http://today.reuters.com
Wellness investment pays off
CNN - Jul 25, 2008, 07:25 AM, Fri
Lincoln Industries looks like a typical blue-collar plant -- workers cutting, bending, plating and polishing steel for products such as motorcycle tailpipes and truck exhausts amid the din of machinery. But the 565-employee Nebraska company is different. Lincoln Industries has three full-time employees devoted to "wellness," and offers on-site massages and pre-shift stretching.
Source URL: http://www.cnn.com
AP: Food Industry Bitten By Its Lobbying Success
FOXNews.com - Jul 25, 2008, 06:59 AM, Fri
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."
Source URL: http://www.foxnews.com
AP: Food industry bitten by its lobbying success Associated Press
'Calming Herb' Treats Toothaches, Sinus Infections
FOXNews.com - Jul 25, 2008, 06:41 AM, Fri
The native herb yerba mansa, translated from Spanish as the "calming herb," has been used medicinally for centuries throughout the Southwest by American Indians and Hispanics to treat ailments ranging from toothaches to sinus infections.
Source URL: http://www.foxnews.com
Having fat friends may raise your own risk of obesity
BBC News - Jul 25, 2008, 04:53 AM, Fri
People are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them, researchers suggest.
Source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk
Howard L. Bachrach, 88, Early Polio Researcher, Is Dead
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 04:43 AM, Fri
Mr. Bachrach was a biochemist who helped produce an early vaccine to prevent foot and mouth disease in livestock and did important early research on the polio virus.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
H2O power
BBC News - Jul 25, 2008, 04:23 AM, Fri
The study that claimed water has a memory
Source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk
Eugene A. Foster, 81, Dies; Linked Jefferson to Slave
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 02:36 AM, Fri
Dr. Foster, a pathologist, helped establish genetically the long-alleged liaison between Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress Sally Hemings.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
National Briefing | West: California: Girl’s Death Prompts Fine
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 12:50 AM, Fri
A company that hired a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke this spring after laboring in a Central Valley vineyard received the highest fine ever issued to a California farming operation.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: New Case of Fast-Moving Polio Is Found
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 12:36 AM, Fri
The confirmation that the strain of polio was found in an 8-month-old boy in the southern port city of Karachi brings the total cases in the country this year to 18.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
Profits Up, Drug Makers Pledge to Cut More Jobs
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 12:17 AM, Fri
On a day when the major stock indexes were down significantly, the drug makers’ shares got little traction despite their fairly strong reports.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
Europe Fails to Endorse Milk and Meat From Clones
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 12:13 AM, Fri
Europe’s Food Safety Authority pulled back from giving milk and meat from cloned animals a clean bill of health, reducing the chances such products will reach stores soon.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
Blacks in Congress Split Over Menthol Cigarettes
New York Times - Jul 25, 2008, 12:03 AM, Fri
A bill that would outlaw flavored cigarettes — except for a type many black smokers choose — has opened a rift.
Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com
More than 1,000 died in painkiller overdoses
Reuters - Jul 24, 2008, 08:34 PM, Thu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 1,013 people died of overdoses in several U.S. cities from 2005 to 2007 after illegally injecting the highly potent painkiller fentanyl, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Source URL: http://today.reuters.com
Both drugs and condoms needed to stop HIV: study
Reuters - Jul 24, 2008, 07:10 PM, Thu
HONG KONG (Reuters) - HIV infections could quadruple over 10 years if HIV-positive people who are taking antiretroviraldrugs become complacent and stop using condoms, researchers in Australia warned.
Source URL: http://today.reuters.com
Meditation slows AIDS progression: study
Reuters - Jul 24, 2008, 06:43 PM, Thu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Meditation may slow the worsening of AIDS in just a few weeks, perhaps by affecting the immune system, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Source URL: http://today.reuters.com
'Wrong bras' can damage breasts
BBC News - Jul 24, 2008, 06:15 PM, Thu
Women who wear the wrong kind of bra could be damaging their breasts, researchers warn.
Source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk
HIV drugs 'add 13 years of life'
BBC News - Jul 24, 2008, 06:11 PM, Thu
Life expectancy for people with HIV increases by 13 years on average since the late 1990s, survey finds.
Source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk
Drugs add 13 years to average life of HIV patient Reuters
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