This is a selection of articles from the December 2006 archive. Click here for this month's Consumer Health News headlines.
Haitian Girl Home After Face Surgery
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Source: AP Top Health News - December 31, 2006 Source Type: info
Over 13,000 WTC Health Registry Enrollees Completed Follow-up Survey
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 31, 2006 Source Type: info
Leicester Breakthrough In Eye Disease
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 30, 2006 Source Type: info
New Target For Alzheimer's Vaccine
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 30, 2006 Source Type: info
Three-year-old blogger's inspiring chemotherapy diary
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Source: the Mail online | Health - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Eat To Live: Cut beef, save the globe
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Source: Monsters and Critics Consumerhealth News - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 29, 2006
(HealthDay)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Health News - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Stroke Incidence Down, But Severity Unchanged Over Past 50 Years
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Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Grain And Berry Phytoestrogens May Affect Cancer Risk Through The Estrogen Signalling System
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Faropenem Phase III Clinical Trial Stopped To Consider Exclusion Of Ketek Comparator
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Telik Reports Preliminary Results On ASSIST-1, ASSIST-2 And ASSIST-3 Phase 3 Clinical Trials
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
AvVaa World Health Care Products Launches New Clinical Trial Studies For NEUROSKIN
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Do they interfere with mammograms?
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Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed - December 29, 2006 Source Type: info
Cyberspace May Overcome Ethical Constraints In Experiments
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Italian board probes doctor in right-to-die case
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Source: CTV Health - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Brazilians transfixed by fourth anorexia death
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Source: CTV Health - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
UnitedHealth, others to extend Medicare drug date
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Source: Reuters: Health - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
News Roundup, Week of December 29th
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Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 28, 2006 Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Source Type: info
Women more weak in the knees
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Source: United Press International - Consumer Health - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Mental health advocates hopeful bill will pass next year
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Source: USATODAY.com Health - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Government calls on doctors to prescribe cheaper drugs
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Source: Scotsman.com News - Health - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Serious And Deadly ICU Blood Infections Could Be Cut By Two Thirds With Basic Training
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Mental health bill to face House vote
(AP)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Health News - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Companies balk at California's patent rules for stem cell research
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Source: news@nature.com - December 28, 2006 Authors: Brandon Keim Source Type: info
FDA Calls Food From Cloned Animals Safe
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Source: Dr. Koop News Articles - December 28, 2006 Source Type: info
Unfolded Proteins May Protect Cells From Dying
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Gene Discovered For Form Of Brittle Bone Disease
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Pacetronix to diversify into implantable devices
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Source: The Economic Times - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Brazil transfixed by 4th anorexia death
(AP)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Health News - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Intelligent Software Solutions To Better Understand Biological Processes
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Quality Not Quantity Important For Immune Response To HIV
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Research Suggests Better Option For Treating Organophosphorus Pesticide Poisoning
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
'On/Off ' Switch Controls Immune Defenses Against Viruses
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Source: Dr. Koop News Articles - December 27, 2006 Source Type: info
Syphilis test campaign may increase tests
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Source: United Press International - Consumer Health - December 26, 2006 Source Type: info
Pulse pressure: An indicator of heart health?
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Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed - December 26, 2006 Source Type: info
Three-Quarters Of Women Are Households' Chief Cook And Food Shopper, UK Study Finds
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 25, 2006 Source Type: info
Bird flu kills Egyptian teenager
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Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - December 25, 2006 Source Type: info
GPC Biotech Presents Preliminary Clinical Data On Anticancer Monoclonal Antibody 1D09C3 At ASH
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 25, 2006 Source Type: info
Singapore’s international complaint dismissed
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Source: news@nature.com - December 25, 2006 Authors: Rex Dalton Source Type: info
Depression Common Among Patients With Chronic Cough
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 24, 2006 Source Type: info
High Season For Research In Antartica
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 23, 2006 Source Type: info
Infant mortality gap widens for multiple births
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Source: Reuters: Health - December 23, 2006 Source Type: info
Watching With Intent To Repeat Ignites Key Learning Area Of Brain
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 23, 2006 Source Type: info
Clinical Factors Of Tinnitus Influence Perceived Loudness And Annoyance
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 23, 2006 Source Type: info
Dengue And Other Hemorrhagic Fevers: Towards A First Potential Treatment
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
New Insight Into How The Brain Regenerates After Stroke
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
Review 2006: Artificial bladder transplant success
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Source: New Scientist - Health - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
News Roundup, Week of December 22nd
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Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 22, 2006 Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Source Type: info
Holiday feasting highlights swallowing problems
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Source: Reuters: Health - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
Medical specialists, Quebec make peace
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Source: CBC | Health - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
Electroconvulsive Therapy Causes Permanent Amnesia And Cognitive Deficits, Prominent Researcher Admits
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
NanoSensors Initiated First Prototype Production Of Product To Detect E-Coli
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
Tetanus shots: How often should I get boosters?
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Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
Los Angeles Times Examines Potential Conflict Of Interest After FDA Official Granted Contracts To Husband's Firm
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 22, 2006 Source Type: info
A Flu Pandemic Could Kill 62 Million
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Source: WebMD Health - December 21, 2006 Source Type: info
Panacos dives on bevirimat woes
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Source: Monsters and Critics Health News - December 21, 2006 Source Type: info
Nevada Judge Allows Part of Smoking Ban
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Source: AP Top Health News - December 21, 2006 Source Type: info
Biomarkers Little Help for Heart Attacks
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Source: ABC News: Health - December 21, 2006 Source Type: info
'Surgery is not the answer'
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Source: Telegraph Health - December 21, 2006 Source Type: info
Obesity linked to microbes
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Source: USATODAY.com Health - December 21, 2006 Source Type: info
Durable Critters Providing Insight For Human Egg Preservation
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
Oldest Animal Fossils May Have Been Bacteria
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Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
Echinacea Side Effect: Gut Changes
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Source: WebMD Health - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
NHS Direct turns on to Freeview TV
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Source: Scotsman.com News - Health - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
Poll: Stress knows few boundaries
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Source: CNN.com - Health - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
Invention May Reduce Backpack Injuries
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Source: WebMD Health - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
Feds Yank VaxGen's Anthrax Contract
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Source: AP Top Health News - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
New Tool Could Abolish Stress In The Workplace
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 20, 2006 Source Type: info
Rich Donors Help Calif. Fund Stem Cell Research
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Source: Health Behavior News Digest - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
ADHD Medication Being Discontinued By Many Children
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
Common Pain Drugs to Get New Warnings
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Source: WebMD Health - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
New Understanding Of Immune System Creates Unexpected Links In Medicine
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Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
Low LDL level linked to Parkinson's disease
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Source: United Press International - Consumer Health - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
Get the Skinny on Trans Fats
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Source: ABC News: Health - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
Climb-down on NHS computer files records
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Source: Telegraph Health - December 19, 2006 Source Type: info
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