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Giant Cannibal Galaxy's Last Meal

LifeScience.com :: Posted 11 hours 43 min ago
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New images show results of collision between giant galaxy and smaller neighbor.

Astronaut in space while wife giving birth...

Reuters :: Posted 12 hours 8 min ago
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on...

Controversial Stem Cell Experiment Could...

LifeScience.com :: Posted 12 hours 27 min ago
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New and controversial transplant operation uses stem cells derived from spare human embryos.

Robotic Spy Planes Go Green

LifeScience.com :: Posted 12 hours 53 min ago
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Military vehicles powered by alternative energy provide more than environmental benefits.

Zap! Light Used to Paralyze Tiny Creatures...

LifeScience.com :: Posted 13 hours 9 min ago
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A new technology can temporarily disable life forms.

Amazing Sand Sculptures

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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As an impoverished child in Orrisa, India, Sudarsan Pattnaik would go to his local beach and build sand castles. His hobby eventually...

Can Alcohol Really Protect Your Heart?

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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A study has suggested that drinking alcohol every day may cut the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third. But the research...

Strength Training Can Help People With Lung...

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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People with chronic lung disease can strengthen their arms and legs with resistance training, and this strength may help them perform...

Newborn Babies Were NOT Designed to Sleep...

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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According to Dr. Jay Gordon, babies sleeping on a safe surface with sober, nonsmoking parents respond to their parents, and the parents...

Most Britons Reject Swine Flu Vaccine

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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More than half of Britons being offered vaccination against pandemic H1N1 flu are turning it down because they fear side-effects or...

Disrupted Sleep Patterns Harming Officers...

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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A police officer who works the night shift, typically from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., already is at a disadvantage when it comes to getting...

Men Married to Smart Women Live Longer

Mercola.com :: Posted 13 hours 40 min ago
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A study has determined that for men, long life and good health have nothing to do with the man’s education and everything to do with...

New guidelines: Women can get Pap smears...

USAToday :: Posted 17 hours 20 min ago
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Group Clarifies Mammography Advice

WSJ :: Posted 22 hours 3 min ago
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The task force that loosened breast-cancer screening guidelines this week clarified its position, in response to the intense backlash...

Business Sours on Health Overhaul

WSJ :: Posted 22 hours 3 min ago
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Chances of business supporting the Obama administration's health overhaul are fading fast, after Senate Majority Leader Reid's bill...

Tax on Rich, Levies Stir Health Debate

WSJ :: Posted 22 hours 3 min ago
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The Senate health bill does without a new surtax on the wealthy that House Democrats' legislation includes, but Senate Democrats have...

Biggest child-killers: pneumonia and diarrhea...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 1 day 1 hour ago
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Diarrhea and pneumonia kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each year globally — more than HIV and malaria combined.

Last year's flu shot may help ward off swine...

USAToday :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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People who received last year's seasonal flu vaccine may have gained some protection against the swine flu virus, according to ...

Choosing the Right Medicare Plan

WSJ :: Posted 1 day 23 hours ago
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Older people may want to reconsider sticking with their existing Medicare plans this enrollment period.

Task force doctor stands by mammogram advice...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 1 day 13 hours ago
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A member of the independent panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion defended the task...

Democrats Pitch Health Bill to Voters

WSJ :: Posted 1 day 9 hours ago
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Senate Democrats touted the immediate benefits their health bill would bring to Americans, aware that the cost...

Problems plague swine flu vaccination program...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 1 day 5 hours ago
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When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going...

Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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Researchers have found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor...

Is 80-year-old mistake leading to first...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial...

Group Clarifies Mammography Advice

WSJ :: Posted 22 hours 3 min ago
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The task force that loosened breast-cancer screening guidelines this week clarified its position, in response...

Frog legs trade may facilitate spread of...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 10 hours 5 min ago
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Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some...

HHS to warn consumers of flu drug price...

USAToday :: Posted 1 day 22 hours ago
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The Department of Health and Human Services will issue consumer warnings about price variations for a scarce liquid...

Mystery Ukrainian 'Super Flu' Raises New...

Mercola.com :: Posted 1 day 13 hours ago
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Scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated...

More birth defects seen with assisted reproduction...

Reuters :: Posted 1 day 9 hours ago
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found a higher rate of birth defects among babies conceived by assisted...

Paralyzing Light Beam

LifeScience.com :: Posted 1 day 5 hours ago
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Tiny nematodes are paralyzed by ultraviolet light in a new study. They staythat way until regular light is turned...

The benefits of stress ... in plants

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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Certain wild flax plants growing in poor soils have succeeded in balancing the stress in their lives -- these...

Easing needle anxiety

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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Needle! For some people, the word -- almost as much as the sight of one sliding into skin -- is enough for people...

New guidelines: Women can get Pap smears...

USAToday :: Posted 17 hours 20 min ago
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Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude...

On your last nerve: Researchers advance...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 10 hours 5 min ago
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Researchers have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells...

U.S. Democrats demand analysis of drug price...

Reuters :: Posted 1 day 21 hours ago
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress are seeking government investigations into recent price...

How to Avoid a Customer-Service Nightmare...

Mercola.com :: Posted 1 day 13 hours ago
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Bad service is everywhere. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that airlines score a failing...

Democrats Pitch Health Bill to Voters

WSJ :: Posted 1 day 9 hours ago
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Senate Democrats touted the immediate benefits their health bill would bring to Americans, aware that the cost and reach of the bill...

Study raises concerns about outdoor second...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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Indoor smoking bans have forced smokers at bars and restaurants onto outdoor patios, but a new study suggests that these outdoor smoking...

Showdown Set for Health Bill

WSJ :: Posted 1 day 21 hours ago
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Sen. Harry Reid outlined a ten-year $849 billion bill that would overhaul the nation's health-care system and extend insurance to 31...

FDA to review Actelion's Zavesca for additional...

Reuters :: Posted 1 day 19 hours ago
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Actelion Ltd, Europe's largest biotech company, said on Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would...

Experts: Radical measures won't stop swine...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 1 day 12 hours ago
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Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads...

Increased obesity hindering success at reducing...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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The percentage of overweight and obese adults in the United States has increased over the past two decades -- undermining efforts to...

Kate Moss criticized after skinny-is-good...

USAToday :: Posted 1 day 10 hours ago
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Campaigners against eating disorders criticized Kate Moss Thursday after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on pro-anorexia...

Accidental discovery produces durable new...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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An accidental discovery has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians,...

Business Sours on Health Overhaul

WSJ :: Posted 22 hours 3 min ago
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Chances of business supporting the Obama administration's health overhaul are fading fast, after Senate Majority Leader Reid's bill...

Tobacco state's biggest university bans...

USAToday :: Posted 1 day 9 hours ago
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The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking ...

Harnessing Wave Energy

LifeScience.com :: Posted 7 hours 24 min ago
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Energy from ocean waves seems like the ultimate in renewable fuel, yet research lags behind studies of solar and wind power. Research...

Oceans' uptake of human-made carbon may...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air....

Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers...

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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Biologists and engineers have dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences...

Breast Exam Guidelines Raise Furor

WSJ :: Posted 1 day 21 hours ago
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Sebelius tried to dispel concerns that new guidelines on breast-cancer screening threaten insurance coverage amid debate among patients...

Pushing the brain to find new pathways

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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Until recently, scientists believed that, following a stroke, a patient had about six months to regain any lost function. After that...

Ancestry attracts, but love is blind

ScienceDaily.com :: Posted 10 hours 5 min ago
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People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin color....

Mammogram coverage won't change, companies...

USAToday :: Posted 1 day 21 hours ago
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Insurance companies contacted by USA TODAY say they will continue paying for providing annual mammograms, despite new guidelines.

P&G recalls Vicks nasal spray after bacteria...

USAToday :: Posted 1 day 8 hours ago
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The Procter & Gamble Co. is recalling some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex nasal spray after the company found bacteria in some ...