While the overall death rate from cancer has dropped in recent years, more people than ever are being diagnosed with anal cancer and certain cancers of the throat and mouth. Both are linked to infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV), ...
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Boston already has 700 confirmed cases of the flu,10 times as many as this time last year,and the state has 18 reported deaths from the virus.Nationwide,nearly 6 percent of Americans have already contacted a health care provider about the ...
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Q. I am 68 and have only Medicare Part A. My sole source of income is $1,062 a month from Social Security. I'm in good health but concerned about future medical needs. Are there any plans for lower-income people? A.Yes, and it's a shame ...
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A: Until other much-needed changes occur, you should only use a medication from a compounding pharmacy if no other FDA-approved product is available, say our medical advisers. Compounding pharmacies create individual, customized drugs. They ...
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US-based employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has acquired Health Star Consulting in a bid to provide enhanced services and expanded resources to clients through national network. Following the completion of acquisition, Health ...
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The U.S. construction sector, in addition to the overall economy, will continue to accelerate at a mild pace throughout 2013, according to the ITR Trends 10 report from ITR Economics. “2013 will be better than 2012,” says Jeff ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- LaCie today announced at CES the 5big storage box, a RAID array with Thunderbolt that comes in 10TB and 20TB capacities. The LaCie 5big array comes with dual-core 2.13GHz Intel processors. The dual Thunderbolt ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- AT&T and Qualcomm jointly announced a new development platform Monday based on a Qualcomm Gobi chipset to be used to build industrial and health care apps and embedded devices on Java to connect to AT&T 's 3G ...
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IDG News Service - Cisco Systems and NXP Semiconductors have both invested in connected car equipment vendor Cohda Wireless, as they look to make the Internet of things a reality and take a piece of a quickly growing market. The size of ...
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CSR has been identified as an important parameter in the MoU drawn up by all the PSUs with the Ministry. CSR activities focusing on environmental care, education, health care, cultural efflorescence, peripheral development, family welfare, ...
A perennial runner-up in the enterprise HDD market,Western Digital(WD)is set to release a line of helium-filled drives,a move that could boost its global market share to the top spot,according to IHS. The helium-filled data center drives ...
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Famy Care has won final FDA approval for abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) of Levonorgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets USP, 0.15mg/0.03mg, generic equivalent to Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products' Nordette 28 tablets. Mylan ...
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The chairman and CEO of US retailer Safeway Inc, Steve Burd, has announced his intention to retire. Burd, who joined Safeway in 1992 as president, will step down at the company's annual stockholders meeting on 14 May. The group said it ...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer have announced the US FDA's approval for Eliquis (apixaban), used to reduce the risk of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. In 2007, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers ...
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Diagnostic information services provider Quest Diagnostics has purchased UMass Memorial Medical Center's clinical outreach laboratory and anatomic pathology outreach laboratory businesses based in Worcester, Massachusetts, US. The ...