"I think that we reserve the word 'draconian' for instances such as this one," said one expert.

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Submitted on August 26th 2016 by cone

Chocolate lovers may agree cocoa is the food of the gods, but how strong is the evidence that it boosts heart health? Researchers are recruiting for a new study aimed at answering this question. The capsules tested will contain about as much extract as you'd get from eating about 1,000 calories of dark chocolate, without the calories.

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Submitted on August 29th 2016 by gladsdotter with 5 comments

It's nothing but a marketing ploy.

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Submitted on August 23rd 2016 by rti9 with 2 comments

US doctor Donald Henderson, who led a successful campaign to wipe out smallpox worldwide, has died at the age of 87.

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Submitted on August 24th 2016 by canuck

Stop trying so hard.

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Submitted on August 24th 2016 by cone

Musicians life are at risk as the death of a 61-year-old musician, who caught an infection from his bagpipes, has highlighted the dangers waiting inside instruments to attack you.

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Submitted on August 24th 2016 by cone

It's the news carb devotees have been waiting for; the revelation that the unrefined variety of carbohydrates including white rice and even pasta won't make you gain weight, say experts.

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Submitted on August 25th 2016 by Appaloosa with 1 comments and with 2 Related Links:

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As experts clash over proposals that millions more of us take statins to prevent heart disease and stroke, a vascular surgeon explains why he feels better without them

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Submitted on August 23rd 2016 by Gozzin with 1 comments

A political committee for Mylan has donated to most of the Senate committee that has asked the drugmaker to explain price increases.

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Submitted on August 27th 2016 by kxh with 2 comments

Pharmaceutical heavyweight Mylan, the latest poster child for drug-industry greed, finally stuck up for itself Thursday. It argued that “the system,” not avarice, was to blame for the company jacking up the price of EpiPens, a common (and life-saving) allergy remedy, by over 400%.

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Submitted on August 26th 2016 by rti9 with 1 comments and with 1 Related Links:

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It is thought cells from a miscarried sibling were absorbed by the man while he was in the womb. By Shehab Khan. (Oct. 24, 2015)

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by AdelleChattre

The world's first cancer vaccine has halved the number of new cervical cancers ten years after it was first administered in Australia.

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Scientists have warned that potentially deadly fungal infections are acquiring resistance to many of the medicines currently used to combat them. More than a million people die of fungal infections every year, including about 7,000 in the UK, and deaths are likely to increase as resistance continues to rise. Researchers say the widespread use of fungicides on crops is one of the main causes of the rise in fungal resistance, which mirrors the rise of resistance to antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections in humans.

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by aj0690

The video below will show you exactly how chronic stress can affect the size of your brain, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes.

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by tranxene

From Ancient Greece through the 18th century, bedbugs were used as medicine.

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Submitted on August 27th 2016 by gladsdotter with 3 comments

Heather Bresch sold 100,200 of shares on same day as release of earnings;transaction was ‘part of a 10b5 plan’, which curtails insider trading suspicions

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Submitted on August 27th 2016 by kxh

An autistic boy has received tens of thousands of birthday cards from strangers all over the world, after his mother made a public appeal. Karen Jones, 49, from Exmouth, posted a request for help on Facebook after her son Ollie told her he loved opening cards and had made his own to open on his 15th birthday. Writing on a community page, she said: “He’s just told me he love opening cards to [the] extent he’s made himself a couple.”

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by drunkenninja

Obamacare is in big trouble.

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

A Mediterranean diet could be better than statins at reducing the risk of an early death for millions of Britons, research suggests.

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by Appaloosa

A virus is generally like a little ball with a few genes. Now scientists have found one that's broken up into five little balls — as if it were dismembered.

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Submitted on August 28th 2016 by Petrox