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Nike co-founder, wife pledge to match if $500 million raised for cancer research
Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife promise to put up half of a billion-dollar push for cancer research.
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How Far Are We From a Super-Pandemic?
Fall is flu season and this year, as usual, federal health officials are asking the public to get their annual flu vaccine shot. But scientists say there are much more deadly bugs lurking out there that could someday make the jump from local outbreak to a worldwide super pandemic that could wipe out people across the globe.
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My Leap of Faith in Medicine
I have an M.D. and Ph.D., but when my son had a minor procedure, I was terrified.
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Viagra Overdose Leads to Penis Amputation for 66-Year-Old
A 66-year-old Colombian man had to have his penis amputated after overdosing on Viagra, according to various reports. Gentil Ramirez, a farmer and former local politician living in the southern town of Gigante, reportedly took several of the blue erectile dysfunction pills to impress his girlfriend, according to the Daily Mail.
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Medical Terms That Still Bear the Mark of the Third Reich
Dr. Hans Reiter achieved the one thing most likely to keep a physician’s name in textbooks forever: He got an illness named after him. While working as a medic in the German army in World War I, he once treated a case of simultaneous inflammation in the joints, eyes, and urethra. This became known as Reiter’s syndrome.
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Scientists closer to universal flu vaccine after swine flu pandemic
Scientists may have discovered the “blueprint for developing a universal flu vaccine" after using the 2009 swine flu pandemic as a natural experiment to study why some people seem to resist severe illness.
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Lose Weight Before Trying Other Sleep Apnea Treatments
So your snoring is driving your partner crazy. Does that mean you're destined for one of those awkward-looking sleep apnea masks? Not so fast, doctors say. Many snorers don't have sleep apnea, which causes a person to frequently stop breathing for brief periods during sleep. It's a big cause of chronic sleepiness and has been linked to a variety of health problems. Sleep apnea can also make a sufferer miserable.
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Do You Understand the Risks of Tylenol? Probably Not
Most Americans know that overdosing can be dangerous but many wrongly think it’s safe to mix drugs containing acetaminophen, a nationwide poll found.
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Why Can't Fish Oil Supplements Keep Our Brains Sharp?
Lots of people think of fish as brain food. And there's good reason. Many kinds of fish — think salmon, sardines, tuna — contain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, a class of polyunsaturated fat, which have been shown to fight inflammation and improve the function of our neurons.
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Regulation of E-Cigarettes Set to Stack Up
Electronic cigarettes could save the lives of millions of smokers, or they could set millions of non-smokers on the path to nicotine addiction, revolutionizing the tobacco industry into the bargain. So the question on the lips of health experts, policy-makers and consumers alike is, are the devices a health problem that needs tight regulation, or a welcome aid to smokers trying to quit?
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This Man Is Growing a Nose on His Forehead.
A man in China whose nose was damaged in an accident is growing a replacement nose on his forehead.
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Study Finds Most Drug Commercials Misleading
Ads for over the counter drugs are worse than those that require a prescription.
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Born in the wrong body: The transgender struggle
Some 700,000 U.S. adults are transgender. The fight for acceptance has just begun.
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How Social Media Is Changing Organ Donation
In the age of social media, doctors, patients, and ethicists face new dilemmas over organ transplants.
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Canada Launching Billion-Dollar Marijuana Free Market This Week
Canada is ushering in what it projects to be a $1.3 billion medical marijuana free market this week, as it replaces small and homegrown pot production with quality-controlled marijuana produced by large farms. The market could eventually serve up to 450,000 Canadians, according to government estimates.
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In cancer drug battle, both sides appeal to ethics
Andrea Sloan is dying of ovarian cancer. Having exhausted all standard treatment options, her doctors say her best hope now is a new class of cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors.
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Spelunking for Drugs
Cave exploration could help fight a major medical problem.
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Why Good Doctors Prescribe Off-Label Treatments
Medicine does not always have the luxury of waiting until the mountains of needed research on any given problem are completed centuries from now. Physicians are tasked with treating real-world suffering today.
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Where Are All the Miracle Drugs From Sequencing the Human Genome?
The human genome was sequenced about 13 years ago. We were supposed to have major medical advances in a decade.
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Blood pressure drug 'fights cancer'
A commonly used blood pressure drug could help fight cancer by opening up blood vessels in solid tumours.
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