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| Vitamin D for babies may prevent type 1 diabetes
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| Reuters - A new analysis of current
research provides "the strongest evidence to date" that giving
small children supplemental vitamin D will help prevent them
from developing type 1 diabetes later on, according to the
review's co-author. -- read full article |
| Fri, 30 May 2008 17:24:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| FDA panel favors Glaxo, Ligand blood drug
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| AP - Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a blood-clotting drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Ligand Pharmaceuticals is effective for short-term use, despite reservations by FDA scientists. -- read full article |
| Fri, 30 May 2008 17:36:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| FDA: Time for asthma patients to switch inhalers
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| AP - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will no longer be sold at year's end — and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives. -- read full article |
| Fri, 30 May 2008 18:46:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| British Cabinet had warning of cancer-smoking link
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| AP - The British Cabinet discussed the early warnings about a link between smoking and lung cancer more than 50 years ago, but viewed the threat as minor and did little for fear of losing tax revenue, according to documents released Friday. -- read full article |
| Fri, 30 May 2008 02:52:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Researchers to examine video games and health
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| AP - Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people's obsession with video games might be put to good use. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced Thursday it will give a dozen research teams up to $200,000 each for studies lasting one to two years. -- read full article |
| Thu, 29 May 2008 23:06:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| WHO slams tobacco industry's youth focus
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|  AP - Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday.
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| Fri, 30 May 2008 07:57:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| DTaP and polio vaccines effective when combined
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| Reuters - As booster vaccines in young
children, the DTaP vaccine, which protects against diphtheria,
tetanus, and whooping cough, can be combined with the
inactivated poliovirus (IPV) vaccine without reducing the
effectiveness of either, new research shows. -- read full article |
| Thu, 29 May 2008 18:32:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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