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No quick fix for diabetes risk 
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Exercise and diet are key to prevent diabetes in high-risk people, say researchers who found two drug treatments offer no benefit.
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03/15/2010 12:01 AM
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Gum disease 'link' to early birth
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Successful treatment for gum disease cuts the risk of pregnant women giving birth early, say US researchers.
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03/14/2010 12:29 AM
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Obese drinkers face 'double hit'
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Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease, experts warn.
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03/13/2010 12:09 AM
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New blood pressure approach urged
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Occasionally high blood pressure may be a greater indicator of stroke risk than consistently high readings, researchers say.
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03/12/2010 12:02 AM
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Women on pill 'may live longer'
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Women who took the contraceptive pill are less likely to die of cancer and heart disease, a long-term study has found.
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03/12/2010 07:38 AM
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Home 'cervical cancer' test hope
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At-home screening tests for the virus responsible for most cervical cancers could detect many more cases, say researchers.
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03/12/2010 12:02 AM
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New York agrees 9/11 dust payout
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New York City agrees to pay up to 657m US Dollars (437m Sterling) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers at the 9/11 attacks site.
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03/12/2010 09:15 AM
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GPs 'lax' on cholesterol targets
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Many lives could be saved if GPs followed guidelines for reducing cholesterol in those at high risk of heart disease, a study suggests.
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03/11/2010 01:08 AM
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Vitiligo skin graft 'effective'
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Skin transplant surgery can be an effective way of treating the skin disease vitiligo, say US researchers.
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03/11/2010 01:13 AM
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Hospital rap over medicine errors
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Too many patients in England and Wales are not getting their medicines in hospital, a safety watchdog says.
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03/11/2010 01:01 AM
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'No proof' IVF aided by acupuncture
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There is no evidence acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine boost the chance of IVF success, fertility experts warn.
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03/10/2010 12:17 AM
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India help for Sri Lanka amputees
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An Indian charity sends a team to Sri Lanka to provide 1,000 amputees in the war-ravaged north with artificial limbs.
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03/10/2010 02:12 PM
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Public Engagement Grants 2010 - Applications Open - British Psychological Society
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Applications are open for the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement Grants 2010. The Society has £14k to award to its members working on projects that help people or contribute to everyday life, and raise awareness of psychology and psychology research. This is the seventh year of the scheme. Past successful awards include £5k in 2008 to Dr Sarah Davidson who works with the British Red Cross to promote the CALMER psycho-social framework...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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New Report Published On Social Care, England
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A cross-party group of MPs published a report on social care today which criticised the 'party political squabbling and point-scoring' and called for a fundamental reform of the social care system in England to be an immediate priority for the Government. The MS Society was one of only a handful of organisations who gave evidence to the cross-party group in November and today joined a large number disability and carers organisations in welcoming this latest report...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Army Of New Care Advisors Joins The Fight Against Muscle Disease, UK
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An army of 19 new and newly secured care advisors will be joining the fight against muscle disease across the UK with the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. Thanks to the hard work of campaigning patients in 10 UK regions and the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, babies, children and adults living with muscle disease will now have access to 19 regional care advisors, who provide vital care co-ordination, advice and guidance on services, equipment and funding. They are also an important point of contact for families to answer their questions about these rare and devastating conditions...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Nurses Back Call For MPs To Work Together To Reform Social Care
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Welcoming the publication of the Health Select Committee report on Social Care, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "Nurses have told us that they would prefer a comprehensive model of funding - the only option where everybody would pay collectively for social care, sharing the risk equally and fairly. We also echo the Committee's call for further debate on funding care from taxation...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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AVMA, Veterinary Foundation Tackle Veterinary Shortage With New Incentive Program
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Their numbers are dwindling at such a rate that our food supply may be in jeopardy - and that decline may continue as their educational debt continues to rise. These are just two of the challenges facing food animal veterinary medicine, one of the bulwarks of our food safety system...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Salaried Dentists Echo Disappointment Of GDPs At Pay Award - British Dental Association
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Leaders of dentists working in salaried primary care, hospitals and academia have echoed the disappointment already expressed by colleagues in general practice at the pay award announced for 2010/11. Salaried primary care dentists in England will be given just a one per cent pay increase for next year. Peter Bateman, Chair of the British Dental Association's Salaried Dentists Committee, said: "Salaried primary care dental services treat some of the most vulnerable patients in the community. Two thirds of services already face significant difficulties filling vacancies...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Pilots Require Time And Evaluation, Says BDA
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The British Dental Association (BDA) has reaffirmed its support for the piloting of the reforms in Professor Steele's review of dentistry, following today's announcement that at least 30 dental practices have been selected to trial new ways of improving services for patients. The pilots, which are expected to take place over a two-year period, will include the trial of a blended contract which is intended to reward dentists for the number of patients they see, the level of each treatment each patients receives and the quality of the care that is provided...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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FDA Task Force Seeks Public Comments On Increasing Transparency With Regulated Industry
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As part of the final phase of its transparency initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking comment from the public and other interested stakeholders on how the agency can increase transparency in its interactions with regulated industry. Posted in the March 12, 2010, Federal Register, the request for electronic or written comments has a deadline of April 12, 2010. The FDA regulates products responsible for about 25 percent of the gross national product of the United States and the industries responsible for these products...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Medtronic Starts International Study Of CoreValve(R) Transcatheter Aortic Valve System
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Moving to expand the evidence base for the future of structural heart disease therapy, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the start of the first of several new initiatives in a robust international clinical program for its CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve system, a minimally-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for aortic valve replacement. The CoreValve Advance clinical study began enrolling patients last week, with the first two implants occurring in Germany...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Some Older ER Patients Are Getting The Wrong Medicines
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A University of Michigan study recently published in Academic Emergency Medicine says that it is common for patients 65 and older to receive potentially inappropriate medications when treated in an emergency room. Nearly 19.5 million older patients, or 16.8 percent of eligible emergency visits from 2000-2006, received one or more potentially inappropriate medications - or PIMs. The large sample of approximately 470,000 ED and outpatient clinic visits, corresponding to a national estimate of about 1...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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AtCor Medical Will Launch New SphygmoCor Version At American College Of Cardiology Meeting
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AtCor Medical (ASX: ACG), the developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor® system which measures central blood pressure and arterial stiffness noninvasively, announced that it would debut SphygmoCor Version 9 at the Annual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session Exposition being held in Atlanta, March 14-16, 2010. AtCor will be demonstrating the system's new features at Booth 717 in the exhibit hall...
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03/14/2010 08:00 AM
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Baxter Presents Clinical Efficacy Results From Phase III Study Of Seasonal Flu Vaccine
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Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), in conjunction with DynPort Vaccine Company LLC (DVC), a CSC Company (NYSE:CSC), presented Phase III study data measuring the clinical efficacy for PREFLUCEL, a trivalent seasonal influenza candidate vaccine. PREFLUCEL is made using Baxter's Vero cell culture platform and does not contain an adjuvant or preservatives. The data were presented at the International Congress on Infectious Disease (ICID) in Miami, Florida...
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03/14/2010 07:00 AM
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Daylight Savings: Not a Bright Time for All (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Most people will welcome the start
of daylight savings time this Sunday because it starts to stay light
longer, even if that means the early mornings will be dark once again.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Are Stock Market Woes Bad for the Heart? (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- When the stock market
declines, do heart attacks go up? That's what Duke University Medical
Center researchers are wondering based on an analysis of data collected
during the current U.S. economic crisis.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Marathoners Face Greater Risk of Artery Problems (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- If regular exercise such
as jogging is good for the heart, then turbo-charged workouts like
training for marathons must be even better, right?
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Psoriasis Tied to Raised Heart Risk (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The common skin ailment
psoriasis may boost the risk for heart attack, stroke and other
cardiovascular woes, probably through a shared inflammatory response, a
new Danish study found.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Many WTC Responders Show Signs of Heart Trouble (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Police who responded on
9/11 to the collapsing World Trade Center towers appear to be at greater
risk for heart problems compared with people in the general population, a
new study finds.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Strides Seen in Orthopedic Surgery for Kids (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Repairing a torn knee
meniscus at the same time as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
reconstruction is safe and effective in children, a new study finds.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Scans May Be Misleading for Hockey Players (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- They had no symptoms, but 70
percent of able-bodied professional and collegiate hockey players in a
U.S. study had abnormal hip and pelvis MRIs.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Hope for Inherited, Dangerously High Cholesterol (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called mipomersen
reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) "bad" cholesterol by nearly 25
percent when added to current therapy in people with a rare genetic
condition that causes extremely high cholesterol, a new study finds.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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2 Drugs Fail to Prevent Diabetes in the Overweight (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Hopes that two available
drugs could help prevent diabetes and the problems it causes in overweight
people with poor sugar metabolism have been dashed by a major
international study.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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Intense Cholesterol, Blood Pressure Therapies Don't Help Type 2
Diabetics (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two sets of results from a
large U.S. government-sponsored trial find that neither aggressive
treatment of cholesterol nor of blood pressure lowers the risk of heart
events in people with type 2 diabetes.
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03/14/2010 09:03 PM
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The Physical Body 
