Posted on July 24th, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
Eight Americans graduated on Tuesday from a Cuban medical school after six years of studies fully funded by Fidel Castro’s government.
They plan to return home, take board exams for licenses to practice and provide cheap health care in poor neighborhoods.
“Cuba offered us full scholarships to study medicine here. In exchange, we commit ourselves to go [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life — but with an extraordinarily tiny brain.
In a case history published in next Saturday’s Lancet, doctors led by Lionel Feuillet of the Hopital de la Timone in Marseille say the father-of-two was admitted to hospital after suffering [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
WASHINGTON —
Fewer high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.
More young people are finishing high school, too, and more little kids are being read to, according to the latest government snapshot on the well-being of the nation’s children. It’s good news [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
The US could approve cloned animals for use as food in two to three years, according to experts.
But cloned meat is unlikely to appear on supermarket shelves in Britain or elsewhere in Europe anytime soon.
Currently, most cloning is carried out for scientific reasons, but it could one day be used to help improve the [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
*Lunch break boob jobs … breast augmentations could soon be a whole lot quicker thanks to a new procedure. / The Sunday Telegraph
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WOMEN could be having boob jobs in their lunch breaks as early as next year, according to a scientific journal.
A fast-track breast enlargement process is to be rolled out by a Californian biotech [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
A genetically engineered herpes virus, designed to kill cancer cells but leave normal tissue unharmed, has shown early promise in clinical tests, scientists said on Saturday.
The idea of injecting cancer patients with a live virus may seem bizarre, but researchers believe viruses — which are experts at killing cells — could one day become a [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own.
The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution — as 11 other states do — but requires New Mexico to oversee a production and distribution system for the drug.
“The long-term goal is that [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by HealthRelatedInfos
Grocery shopping seems like a harmless enough activity. It’s a chore, but it’s one that most of us do at least once a week, without giving much thought to what’s going on behind the scenes at the supermarket.
How we shop has become a science that’s studied endlessly. “Market researchers have worked for years to come [...]
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