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Chemo and surgery may help colon cancer
Jun 4 2007 8:45PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Scientists reported promising gains Monday for treating colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver, showing that chemotherapy before and after surgery to remove liver tumors can help keep the disease in check.
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Study: Liver cancer breakthrough found
Jun 4 2007 8:45PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - For the first time, doctors said Monday they have found a pill that improves survival for people with liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year.
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Vaccine claims to get their day in court
Jun 4 2007 8:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Science has spoken when it comes to the theory that some childhood vaccines can cause autism. They don't, the Institute of Medicine concluded three years ago. Soon, it will be the courts turn to speak.
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Prognosis good for TB patient
Jun 4 2007 8:41PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Doctors are hopeful that Andrew Speaker's tuberculosis can be cured because it is not widespread, he is otherwise healthy and young, and his hospital has extensive experience in removing stubborn, drug-resistant infections.
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EU launches campaign to tackle back pain
Jun 4 2007 7:03PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Commission launched a campaign Monday to fight backache and other bone and muscle pains which are the most common work-related heath problem in Europe costing billions of dollars in lost labor hours.
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Doctors say roller shoes injuring kids
Jun 4 2007 5:46PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Trendy wheeled sneakers that let kids zip down sidewalks, across playgrounds and through mall crowds could also send them rolling into emergency rooms on a stretcher, say doctors who blame a rash of injuries on the international craze.
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US purchases new smallpox vaccine
Jun 4 2007 5:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government will purchase 20 million doses of a smallpox vaccine that, in the event of an outbreak, would be used to treat people with compromised immune systems.
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Abused drug used to treat heart failure
Jun 4 2007 1:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. doctors are beginning a dramatic experiment this month to try to save patients dying from congestive heart failure _ by temporarily resting their hearts and then boosting them with a drug long abused for bodybuilding.
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Parents of TB patient are 'in hell'
Jun 4 2007 8:16AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The parents and in-laws of the man who set off an international health scare by flying to Europe and back for his wedding while infected with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis stressed that he would never have traveled if he thought he was contagious.
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