| Intensive Early Treatment Doesn't Help Bladder Cancer Survival (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- More intensive treatment in the first two years after a diagnosis of early bladder cancer doesn't appear to improve patient survival, a new study finds. |
| Home-Based Program Extends Seniors' Lives (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- A home-based program for seniors that includes occupational and physical therapy, as well as some minor home modifications, can help people live longer, new research found. |
| Heart Transplant Failures More Likely in Poor, Minority Kids (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Minority children and those in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to die or need a second heart transplant than white children or those in better-off neighborhoods, according to the results of a U.S. study. |
| Clinical Trials Update: April 7, 2009 (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: |
| Obesity Linked to Heart Failure Risk (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Swedish studies add heart failure to the list of cardiac problems linked to overweight and obesity. |
| Skin cancer now top cancer among young women in UK (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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| | AP - Melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, is now the most common cancer in young British women, the country's leading cancer organization said Wednesday. Skin cancer has overtaken cervical cancer as the top cancer striking women in their 20s, according to the latest data from Cancer Research United Kingdom. |
| FACT CHECK: Do smokers cost society money? (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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| | AP - Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too — by living longer. |
| CDC: Mild flu season apparently winding down (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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| | AP - The flu season is winding down and turning out to be one of the mildest in years, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| Intensive Early Treatment Doesn't Help Bladder Cancer Survival (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- More intensive treatment in the first two years after a diagnosis of early bladder cancer doesn't appear to improve patient survival, a new study finds. |
| Heart Transplant Failures More Likely in Poor, Minority Kids (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Minority children and those in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to die or need a second heart transplant than white children or those in better-off neighborhoods, according to the results of a U.S. study. |
| Obesity Linked to Heart Failure Risk (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Swedish studies add heart failure to the list of cardiac problems linked to overweight and obesity. |
| Clinical Trials Update: April 7, 2009 (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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| | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: |
| Brit officials wrestle with cost of cancer drugs (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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| | AP - In October, Rocky Fernandez was told he might not live to Christmas. Suffering from kidney cancer that had spread to his lungs, his doctor wanted to prescribe him Sutent, a relatively new cancer drug. But Fernandez hit a roadblock. |
| Study shows Brazilian waistlines expanding (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 3:08 pm
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| | AP - The girl from Ipanema is putting on a few pounds. |
| Prostate drug shows promise in early testing (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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| | AP - Early trials of a new drug for advanced prostate cancer are showing some success, researchers report. |
| Home-Based Program Extends Seniors' Lives (HealthDay)
April 7, 2009 at 9:03 am
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| | HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- A home-based program for seniors that includes occupational and physical therapy, as well as some minor home modifications, can help people live longer, new research found. |
| Child disease outbreak kills 18 in China's Henan (Reuters)
April 7, 2009 at 7:41 am
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| | Reuters - Eighteen children from central China's Henan province have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that could claim more victims as its spreads in summer heat, state media reported on Tuesday. | 
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