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Feeling Pain? Swearing Can Help, Study Says
If you’re in pain and you don’t have any aspirin or ibuprofen close by – don’t worry. According to researchers…
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FDA: Drugs Approved in U.S. Before Europe
Americans in the past year got access to 24 new medicines before they became available anywhere else, U.S. drug regulators…
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Proton therapy: Radiation without the side effects?
For years, 60-year-old Frank Mackinson had been experiencing strange symptoms that would come and go. Two years ago, as he…
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Embryo survival gene may fight range of diseases
A gene that keeps embryos alive appears to control the immune system and determine how it fights chronic diseases like…
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Facts about trans fats
How are they formed? And what’s so bad about them? Get the stats on the new fat on the block.…
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New Cancer Drug That Starves Tumors of Blood Supply to Be Tested
A new drug that attacks a variety of cancers by starving the tumors’ blood supplies will be tested on humans…
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Oregon norovirus traced to reusable grocery bag
Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag that members of a Beaverton girls’ soccer…
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Tobacco Firms Argue Against Possible Menthol Cigarette Ban
WASHINGTON – Major tobacco makers urged a federal advisory panel against banning menthol cigarettes, arguing such a ban would likely…
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