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Written by Val Willingham - CNN
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 |
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Article Source: CNN
Now, doctors who specialize in wound management are growing skin to help people like Tomas save their limbs and extremities. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are extracting collagen -- a protein that makes up 75 percent of skin -- from donated skin and creating grafts, or patches, that can induce a patient's own skin to grow. The donated skin can come from a variety of sources: anything from a pig's pancreas to a baby's foreskin.
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Written by MSNBC>com - Reuters
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
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Article Source: MSNBC.com - Reuters
Healthy neighborhood may be a way to address epidemic, researchers say
CHICAGO - People who live in neighborhoods with safe sidewalks, ample parks, good public transportation and ready access to fresh fruits and vegetables are 38 percent less likely to develop diabetes than others, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Written by Susan Brink -Health.com - CNN
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
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Article Source: Health.com - CNN
We know more than ever...
(Health.com) -- I was 18 when I first felt a lump in my breast. Of course, I was convinced that I was going to die. This was three decades ago -- back when we knew far less about breast cancer. A general surgeon removed the lump, which, thank goodness, wasn't malignant.
Once identified only by how far the disease had advanced -- such as stage 0 or stage IV -- scientists now know that breast cancer is actually many diseases and that each tumor has a unique genetic fingerprint. There are luminal A and B, HER2 type, and triple negative, among others. That means physicians can more effectively target treatment with therapies that have the best chance of working.
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Written by Andrea Thompson - MSNBC
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 |
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Article Source: MSNBC
Average life expectancy saw surprising bump during Great Depression
During the Great Depression, some of the hardest times our country has faced, the average life expectancy in the United States actually rose. This surprising bump in the population’s health is also seen in other economic downturns — likely even the current one.
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Written by Neeta Lal - InterPress Service
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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Article Source: InterPress Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 2 (IPS) - At an age when most 20-year-olds dream of living a perfect life, Kousalya Periasamy found hers shaken by personal tragedies.
Within a month of her marriage in 1996 to a truck driver in Namakkal, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, her spouse was diagnosed with AIDS. Six months later he died, but not before doctors confirmed Kousalya’s worst nightmare that she too was infected with the deadly HIV virus. The hapless widow's life could well have followed an unhappy trajectory from there. But Kousalya chose to give things a different turn.
She moved from Namakkal to the state capital of Chennai with her uncle in 1997. Here, she joined an initiative called INP Plus (Indian Network for Positive People Plus) which disseminated information about HIV/AIDS. When INP Plus opened a separate wing for women and children - PWN (Positive Women's Network) Plus - Kousalya was chosen to helm it.
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