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  • Breakthrough research shows Vit C kills drug resistant TB Breakthrough research shows Vit C kills drug resistant TB

    WASHINGTON - Adding vitamin C to existing tuberculosis drugs regime could shorten the therapy for drug resistant TB, claims new research findings published in the online scientific journal Nature Communications. The striking discovery, by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory ...

  • Deal with your chronic pain

    Chronic pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined Too many patients rely on drugs to mask their pain People should seek out a pain specialist to help find the ...

  • A fate worse than death for scores of women

    African women with obstetric fistula see themselves as the walking dead, doctor says Fistula can be repaired with delicate surgery and follow-up care Many African hospitals and doctors lack education and expertise Thursday is the first-ever International Day to End Obstetric ...

  • Couple charged in death of infant who fell ill

    Prosecutors say the man and woman followed faith-healing doctrines An infant son died in April, with authorities saying the parents didn't seek medical help A 2-year-old son died under similar circumstances in 2009 The parents were on probation in that earlier death, and were to get help for their sick ...

  • Jeremy Hunt attacked by doctors for superficial misleading comments

    Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, has been accused by senior doctors of "childishly superficial and misleading analysis" after he blamed GPs for the pressure on UK accident and emergency ...

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50/50

50/50

50/50, a dramedy about a young man in his late 20s who is diagnosed with cancer, is a good movie with a moderate sense of daring that ultimately spends too much time telling the wrong story. Screenwriter Will Reiser based on the script on his own twentysomething experiences of battling cance ... ...

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  • Patients in hospitals are not being put first healthcare professionals say

    Patients in hospitals are not being put first, three quarters of health professionals believe, according to a damning report which warns that the NHS has lost its ...

  • Addressing Mental Health Issues In HIV Care

    HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Syvia Kaaya from the School of Medicine at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and her international colleagues say that effective interventions exist for ...

  • Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

    By The Associated Press The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25 percent over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for ...

  • BTG builds interventional medicine platform with deals

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BTG said it would make two acquisitions, one extending its expertise in liver cancer and the other a treatment for severe blood clots, to create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billion. The company said on Thursday it had agreed to buy the targeted therapies division of Nordion Inc, for about $200 million in a deal that adds ...

  • Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug

    Kathrin Jansen, senior vice president of Vaccine Research and Early Development at Pfizer Inc, poses for a portrait in one of her labs at Pfizer headquarters in Pearl River, New York, April 19, ...

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