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Abbott abandons plans to sell vaccines business
WASHINGTON -- Drug and medical device firm Abbott Laboratories said Friday it has abandoned plans to sell its vaccines unit, less than three months after exploring sales talks with rival companies.
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Bone drugs may raise risk of throat cancer
LONDON -- People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests.
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Summary Box: Workers pick up growing insurance tab
2010 COSTS: Total premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance climbed only 3 percent for family coverage and 5 percent for single coverage, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust report.
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Workers bear larger share of health premium costs
INDIANAPOLIS -- Workers are paying a larger portion of their health insurance costs as businesses shift more of the burden to their employees to help ride out the economic downturn, an annual study shows.
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Can home cooking be hazardous to your health?
ATLANTA -- Could your kitchen at home pass a restaurant inspection?
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New test seen as big advance in diagnosing TB
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it.
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Journal editors question sale of diet pill Meridia
NEW YORK -- Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia "another flawed diet pill" and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.
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JAMA's editor leaving, returning to Johns Hopkins
CHICAGO -- One of the country's leading medical journals is looking for a new editor.
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Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation
WASHINGTON -- Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.
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Some donated malaria drugs being stolen in Africa
LONDON -- Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: some of the donated medication is being stolen and resold on commercial markets.
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Benefits seen for high-risk women in ovary removal
CHICAGO -- Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new research suggests.
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Chain-smoking Greeks face tough ban
ATHENS, Greece -- Greece is set to impose a tough smoking ban starting Wednesday that will outlaw lighting up in all public indoor areas and prohibit most tobacco advertising.
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JK Rowling donates $15.4 million for MS center
LONDON -- Author J.K. Rowling has given $15.4 million to set up a center to research multiple sclerosis, the disease that killed her mother.
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Scientists expect C-section rate to keep rising
WASHINGTON -- More women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said Monday, releasing a study into the causes of a trend that troubles maternal health experts.
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Diabetes now tops Vietnam vets' claims
RALEIGH, N.C. -- By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos.
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Time to get your flu shot, but just one this year
WASHINGTON -- It's flu-shot season already, and for the first time health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. There is even a new high-dose version for people 65 or older.
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Italy health minister apologizes for botched birth
MESSINA, Sicily -- Italy's health minister traveled to Sicily on Monday to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room.
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Questions loom over drug given to sleepless vets
WASHINGTON -- Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-psychotic called Seroquel.
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ER visits for concussions soar among kid athletes
CHICAGO -- Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids' sports has increased along with awareness of head injuries.
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Study: More omega-3 fats didn't aid heart patients
NEW YORK -- Eating more heart-healthy omega-3 fats provided no additional benefit in a study of heart attack survivors who were already getting good care, Dutch researchers report.

Med-Marijuana
Links

Info Source for Full-THC Cannabis
www.medicalmarihuana.ca/

Institute of Medicine Report- Marijuana
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/marimed/

Health Canada Medical Marijuana Program
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/index_e.html

Pitt U. Alternative Medicine
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/syst.html   

Cannabis Facts
http://www.druglibrary.org/

GLA Info
http://www.healthandage.com/html/res/com/ConsSupplements/GammaLinolenicAcidGLAcs.html

Yale U. Health Info
http://yalenewhavenhealth.org/s_frontpage/index.html

FDA recommends Omega's for Heart Health
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01115.html

Omega Health
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/substances_view/0,1525,992,00.html 

Mayo Clinic Health Info
http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Omega's for Health
http://www.health-heart.org/    

 

 

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