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Brain scan abnormalities not uncommon
Oct 31 2007 9:15PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.
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Breast cancer rates surge in China
Oct 31 2007 4:55PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - An increasing taste for Western-style junk food and unhealthy lifestyles have caused the rate of breast cancer among urban Chinese women to jump sharply over the past decade, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.
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W.Va. unveils tool to help fight obesity
Oct 31 2007 4:51PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia is hoping that a little wheel can make a big difference in the state's obesity problem. The wheel is a body mass index calculator, a low-tech tool that will be distributed to doctors across the state as part of a new effort to get physicians to recognize obesity early in their patients.
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Vitamin D may not reduce cancer deaths
Oct 31 2007 4:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A large new study found no sign that vitamin D lowers the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. The exception: People with more vitamin D in their blood did have a significantly lower risk of death from colorectal cancer, supporting earlier findings.
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Foreign drugs receive little scrutiny
Oct 31 2007 4:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government inspectors visit the foreign companies that make more and more of the drugs used in the United States just once every eight to 12 years on average, according to congressional investigators.
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