Minority and poor patients are more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they're diagnosed than white and richer patients do, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 26,000 patients in California who were diagnosed ...
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Health Highlights: Jan. 13, 2014 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Nine Womb Transplant Patients Doing Well: Swedish Researchers Nine women who received ...
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Ice River Springs is launching an innovative new 15 liter bottle for water coolers. The bottle is made of 100 percent recycled plastic and is green. The new bottles have been launched because of Ice River Springs' pioneering initiatives ...
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ANI Pharmaceuticals Inc., an emerging generic pharmaceutical company, has entered into a fee-for-service development agreement for a generic drug product with Sterling Pharmaceutical Services ("Sterling"). The product will be developed by ...
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Politico reports that while Republican governors in Texas and Louisiana remain firmly in the no camp, others in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana and Oklahoma are giving the program a second look. News outlets also offer updates from ...
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The Associated Press/Miami Herald: Proposed Medicare Drug Change Stirs Access Worries In a move that some fear could compromise care for Medicare recipients, the Obama administration is proposing to remove special protections that ...
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Almost one in 10 people will someday experience a kidney stone, which creates what is described as the most intense pain imaginable. This increasingly common condition leads to hundreds of thousands of surgeries in the United States each ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now accepting online submission of voluntary and mandatory dietary supplement adverse event reports. The FDA has implemented a secure capability in the interest of efficiency and as a ...
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In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that more than 500 people were sickened by seven strains of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to chicken. However, salmonellosis caused by Salmonella Heidelberg is only ...
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Aided in some cases by a new cast of elected officials, groups pushing for Medicaid expansion hope to reopen the debate in state legislative sessions beginning in Maine, Virginia, Louisiana, Kansas and Georgia. The Washington Post: Maine ...
UPS Freight employees in the Teamsters union approved a five-year agreement that gives workers a total $2.50 per hour wage boost that the union said makes them the best-paid drivers in the less-than-truckload industry. The tentative ...
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New Zealand company Fonterra is recalling 8,700 bottles of cream distributed in-country for E. coli contamination. The recalled products include 300ml and 500ml bottles of Anchor and Pams fresh cream with a best before date of Jan. 21. ...
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Sexual experimentation outside of committed romantic relationships, or "hooking up," is typically portrayed by the media as unhealthy, especially for young women. These portrayals, however, are largely conjecture. Researchers from Syracuse ...
HRT Participa??es em Petróleo SA (the "Company" or "HRT") (BM&FBOVESPA: HRTP3, TSX-V: HRP), together with its subsidiary, HRT O&G Explora??o e Produ??o de Petróleo Ltda. ("HRT O&G"), reports that it was concluded on January ...
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Bisphenol A impairs the function of proteins that C. This finding has been reported by researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Wuppertal. The substance, short BPA, is contained in many plastic products and is ...
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