2008 Mar 24
Date : 2008 03 24 Health
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AP - You've just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor? Chemotherapy costs are rising so dramatically that later this year, oncologists will get their first guidelines on how to have a straight talk with patients about the affordability of treatment choices, a topic too often sidestepped. read more »
AP - You've just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor? Chemotherapy costs are rising so dramatically that later this year, oncologists will get their first guidelines on how to have a straight talk with patients about the affordability of treatment choices, a topic too often sidestepped. read more »
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - Kids need to take special care to prevent injuries to growing bones and muscles while playing sports. read more »
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - Kids need to take special care to prevent injuries to growing bones and muscles while playing sports. read more »
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HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new review of 32 studies suggests that obese women -- particularly white women -- are more likely than others to skip screenings for breast and cervical cancer. read more »
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new review of 32 studies suggests that obese women -- particularly white women -- are more likely than others to skip screenings for breast and cervical cancer. read more »
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HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who receive free drug samples from their doctors end up having significantly higher out-of-pocket costs for their prescription drugs than people who don't receive free samples, a new study finds. read more »
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who receive free drug samples from their doctors end up having significantly higher out-of-pocket costs for their prescription drugs than people who don't receive free samples, a new study finds. read more »
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HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Therapeutic cloning successfully treated Parkinson's disease in mice, researchers report. read more »
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Therapeutic cloning successfully treated Parkinson's disease in mice, researchers report. read more »
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HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Comprehensive sex education may help reduce teen pregnancies without increasing levels of sexual intercourse or sexually transmitted diseases. read more »
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Comprehensive sex education may help reduce teen pregnancies without increasing levels of sexual intercourse or sexually transmitted diseases. read more »
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HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- From 25 percent to 50 percent of new cancer treatments tested in phase 3 randomized clinical trials are eventually found to be effective, say American researchers who analyzed data from 624 phase 3 trials involving more than 216,000 patients. read more »
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- From 25 percent to 50 percent of new cancer treatments tested in phase 3 randomized clinical trials are eventually found to be effective, say American researchers who analyzed data from 624 phase 3 trials involving more than 216,000 patients. read more »
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AP - Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that GlaxoSmithKline PLC deliberately withheld information about an antidepressant. read more »
AP - Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that GlaxoSmithKline PLC deliberately withheld information about an antidepressant. read more »
Date : 2008 03 24 Health
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AP - Intensive rice farming and large duck populations not the number of chickens raised may be the best predictors of where bird flu might develop in Southeast Asia, according to researchers reviewing outbreaks in Vietnam and Thailand. read more »
AP - Intensive rice farming and large duck populations not the number of chickens raised may be the best predictors of where bird flu might develop in Southeast Asia, according to researchers reviewing outbreaks in Vietnam and Thailand. read more »
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AP - The U.N. secretary-general on Monday urged stepped-up action to stop the global tuberculosis epidemic that is killing 4,000 people every day. read more »
AP - The U.N. secretary-general on Monday urged stepped-up action to stop the global tuberculosis epidemic that is killing 4,000 people every day. read more »
Date : 2008 03 24 Health
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AP - The number of suspected salmonella cases linked to an outbreak in this southern Colorado town topped 200 Sunday. read more »
AP - The number of suspected salmonella cases linked to an outbreak in this southern Colorado town topped 200 Sunday. read more »