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Vitamin D may help in prostate cancer
May 17 2005 7:32PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Men dying from prostate cancer may be able to extend their lives, thanks to a potent form of vitamin D developed at Oregon Health & Science University.
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Breast cancer study halted after deaths
May 17 2005 7:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A study in which women with breast cancer were given two chemotherapy drugs simultaneously was cut short after the combination contributed to the deaths of two patients and caused life-threatening complications in an alarming number of others.
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Antidepressants can affect newborns
May 17 2005 7:26PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Women who take Prozac or certain other antidepressants late in pregnancy raise the risk that their babies will suffer jitteriness, irritability and serious respiratory problems during their first couple of weeks, researchers say.
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Experts debate study on fat, breast cancer
May 17 2005 7:26PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Low-fat diets modestly helped women cut their chances of a recurrence of breast cancer, the first experiment to put this to the test concludes.
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Study: Herb helps curb binge drinking
May 17 2005 7:25PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A group of 20-something drinkers seemed to lose the urge to binge-drink when they took pills made from kudzu, that ubiquitous vine that blankets the South, researchers reported.
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School teaches preschoolers healthy eating
May 17 2005 7:25PM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - At one preschool, the ABC's stand for apples, broccoli and carrots. As schools nationwide contend with an epidemic of obese youngsters, the Nutritional Sciences Preschool at Rutgers University has been teaching children as young as 3 to choose fruit and vegetables over junk food. And the kids seem to like it.
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Drug's effect on cancer stuns doctors
May 17 2005 7:24PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - No one could have been more surprised than the doctors themselves. They were just hoping to relieve the symptoms of a deadly blood disorder _ and ended up treating the disease itself. In nearly half of the people who took the experimental drug, the cancer became undetectable.
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Child cancer survivors have other problems
May 17 2005 7:24PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Two-thirds of children who survive cancer develop other chronic health problems, such as heart disease and blindness, because of radiation and the treatments that saved their lives, according to new research.
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Drug that treats diarrhea may prevent it
May 17 2005 7:24PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A drug already used to treat that tourist nightmare _ traveler's diarrhea _ may also prevent it without causing the antibiotic resistance that can eventually make medicines ineffective, new research suggests.
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