The latest advertising campaign by the British Heart Foundation is trying to cure the nation's stiff upper lip. Its posters show a man's chest being squeezed by a belt of pain, and the advice: "a chest pain is your body saying call 999". According to the BHF, heart attack victims wait a breathtakin
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Experts fear the UK is not exploiting scientific developments to their full to prevent a flu pandemic.A report from the Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences has warned the Government to reconsider its decision to stock only one anti-viral drug despite at least two known cases where Tamifl
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The rise in MRSA - because everybody wants to be a diagnostician and nobody wants to wipe bottoms - is just the tip of the iceberg, says medical student Alex Thomas .
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of 677 mostly male middle-aged Israeli workers, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine."
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The TRIGR study is the first study ever aimed at primary prevention of type 1 diabetes. The study is designed to answer to the question whether excluding cow's milk protein from the infant's diet decreases the risk of future diabetes.
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Findings of a cot death study that helped to discredit the paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow were challenged by a report published yesterday in the British Medical Journal.
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The American Journal of Psychiatry study concluded that the older, first-generation antipsychotic drug perphenazine was less expensive and as effective as newer medications such as AstraZeneca Plc's Seroquel and Eli Lilly and Co.'s Zyprexa.
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ONE million Australian girls and women will be vaccinated against cervical cancer after the Howard Government resolved a pricing dispute with drug company CSL yesterday.
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Frank Pajonk from the University of California in Los Angeles and his colleagues from the University of Freiburg, Germany, studied the effects of green and black tea extracts on patients who had been treated with radiotherapy, which can damage the skin.
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