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Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday. read more »
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Steroid treatment given immediately before or after birth to reduce the rate and severity of chronic lung disease does not appear to harm cardiac function in children later on, according to a review of published studies by Dutch researchers.



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HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - paralyzed for the past 20 years, former Israeli paratrooper Radi Kaiof now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum.



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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two experimental treatments suggest new directions for treating diabetes, both using compounds already made by the body, researchers in the United States reported on Monday.



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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Undiagnosed infections may be causing a significant number of premature births, researchers reported on Monday after finding bacteria or fungi in 15 percent of the amniotic fluid samples taken from women in pre-term labor.



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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Survival rates are higher for Asian/Pacific Islanders with early gastric cancers compared with patients of other racial or ethnic groups with similar-stage stomach cancers, research shows.



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Reuters - Use of cholesterol-lowering
statin drugs, especially long-term use, appears to raise the
risk of prostate cancer among obese men, according to findings
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Major life changes may play a role in as many as a quarter of chronic daily headache cases that arise among otherwise healthy adult men and women, study findings suggest.



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