Calif. regulators warn of pot's cancer capability
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AP - It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law. The same marijuana smoke that doctors can recommend to ease cancer patients' suffering must soon come with a warning saying it causes the disease.
Mexico wins praise for swine flu response
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AP - As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.
Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
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AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is so far more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
Advocates are back with real health care stories
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AP - When carpenter Greg Douglas crashed his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000.
Federal probe finds problems with chelation study
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AP - A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.
Uganda to outlaw female circumcision
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AFP - Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region, the president said in a statement Friday.
Health Tip: Controlling Asthma
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Medication used to control asthma may be
used every day, without the fear of becoming addicted, the American
Academy of Family Physicians says.
Fertility drug combo promising in older women
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Reuters - The combination of two drugs -- Femara (letrozole) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) -- could be of benefit in infertile women of advanced reproductive age undergoing intrauterine insemination, results of a study indicate.
New Weapons in Fight Against TB?
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis
might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson's
disease, suggests a new study.
New Drug Could Work Against Leukemia
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new targeted therapy shows
promise in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a highly treatment-resistant
blood cancer, according to a new study.
Botched circumcisions leave 31 dead in S.Africa
(AFP)
AFP - Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on Friday.
Health Tip: Understanding Pre-Diabetes
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Before some people develop full-blown
diabetes, their blood sugar is above normal, but not high enough to
qualify for a diagnosis of diabetes.
Many Adults With Asthma Are Skipping Flu Shots
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with asthma face a
higher risk of complications if they catch the flu, yet many skip their
annual shots, new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention shows.
Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Often Overweight
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with type 1
diabetes are more likely to be overweight than those without the disease,
increasing their risk of serious health complications, researchers
say.
