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AP - A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday.
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AP - A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City’s 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are pulling out victims days after they were buried by a powerful earthquake.
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AP - Health regulators reiterated their warning Friday that organ transplant drugs from Roche and Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.
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Reuters - A free hotline for patients
to report serious medical side effects should be mentioned in
television commercials and also needs to be more widely
promoted on pill bottles and pharmacy packaging, U.S. health
experts said on Friday.
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Adults who had cancer as
children or teens are more likely to experience cardiovascular disease, a
new study found.
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Women with breast cancer who
have a vitamin D deficiency at the time of diagnosis are more likely to
have a recurrence or to die from their disease, a new study shows.
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AFP - Women deficient in vitamin D at the time of a breast cancer diagnosis are more likely to die or see the tumor spread, a Canadian study published in the United States has shown.
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AP - A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments.
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Reuters - Results from a mid-stage trial
showed treatment with Genentech Inc’s Avastin improved survival
for patients with recurring brain cancer, the company said on
Thursday.
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