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| Athletes to donate brains for concussion study
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| AP - Sixteen athletes, including six former NFL players, have agreed to donate their brains to a program that will study the long-term effects of concussions, a founder of an organization running it said Wednesday. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:10:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Regulator says hospitals need strict heparin rules
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| AP - A regulatory group told hospitals Wednesday to adopt strict measures to prevent errors involving blood thinners including heparin — mistakes that have been made nearly 60,000 times and led to dozens of deaths in recent years. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:30:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Whole Brain Radiation Not Best for Cancer That Has Spread
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| HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The common practice of
adding whole brain radiation to more focused radiation treatment for
cancers that have spread to the brain not only caused greater learning and
memory problems, but also was associated with a shorter survival time in a
controlled study. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:47:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Prostate cancer hormone therapy may raise mortality
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|  Reuters - In elderly men with early-stage prostate cancer, receiving hormone therapy is associated with an increase in all-cause mortality, according to a study reported Tuesday at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 50th Annual Meeting underway in Boston.
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| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:00:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Heart Attack Care Often Delayed for the Poor
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| HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Poorer Americans, including
those on Medicaid, are more likely to take much longer to get to the
hospital when a heart attack strikes compared to more affluent people, a
new study finds. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:47:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| China's milk scandal bares government shortcomings
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|  AP - The note posted in July on the Web site of China's food safety inspection agency came from a doctor: There had been a sudden rise in infants turning up at his hospital with kidney stones after drinking the same brand of formula.
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| Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:53:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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| Regulator says hospitals need strict heparin rules
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| AP - A regulatory group told hospitals Wednesday to adopt strict measures to prevent errors involving blood thinners including heparin — mistakes that have been made nearly 60,000 times and led to dozens of deaths in recent years. -- read full article |
| Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:52:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News |
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