Posts Tagged ‘Health’

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP)

AP – As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

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E.Europe in spotlight at Vienna AIDS conference (AFP)

AFP – AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday.

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Men likelier than women to enjoy sex in old age (AFP)

AFP – Men are more than twice as likely as women to be sexually active in old age but good health is the key for both to feeling naughty, says a study published Wednesday by the British Medical Journal.

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Canadian vaccination study proves ‘herd immunity’ (Reuters)

Reuters – Inoculating children against flu protects more people of all ages in the larger community, probably because young people tend to spread viruses through physical play, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.

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Obese Colon Cancer Survivors Face Poorer Prognosis (HealthDay)

HealthDay – TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) — Colon cancer survivors who are moderately or severely obese face tougher survival odds following treatment compared with their normal-weight peers, a new study reveals.

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Obese Colon Cancer Survivors Face Poorer Prognosis
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Kids Who Get Flu Shots Protect the Unvaccinated (HealthDay)

HealthDay – TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) — Children who get a flu shot help prevent flu from spreading in their communities, Canadian researchers say.

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Kids Who Get Flu Shots Protect the Unvaccinated
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Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening (AP)

AP – Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen.

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Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
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Drug addiction ‘disaster’ faces developing world: UN (AFP)

AFP – Developing countries could face a “health disaster” if wealthy countries fail to control drugs, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned on Monday.

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