Hands-only CPR, pushy dispatchers are lifesavers
29 July 2010 12:25
More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions — especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth, according to new research.
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DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic
29 July 2010 08:20
Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared."
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Hire scheme aims to get Londoners on bikes
29 July 2010 11:26
A fleet of 6,000 bicycles for hire will hit the streets of central London on Friday when the city's mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme intended to fuel a cycling revolution in the congested capital.
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Stemcells coaxed to rebuild bone, cartilage
29 July 2010 12:21
Scientists have shown for the first time that it may be possible to replace a human hip or knee with a joint grown naturally inside the body using the patient's stem cells.
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Alcohol eases rheumatoid arthritis: study
28 July 2010 08:58
Drinking alcohol may help reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis and cut the risk of developing the painful and crippling disease, a study published Wednesday has shown for the first time.
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AstraZeneca bloodthinner goes before U.S. experts
28 July 2010 08:34
AstraZeneca Plc's experimental blood thinner goes before U.S. advisers on Wednesday, facing questions over why a trial of the potential blockbuster drug failed to cut heart attacks and deaths in North American patients.
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China trains fur farm foxes to combat rat plague
28 July 2010 12:14
Authorities in China's far west have bred and trained "an army" of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday.
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Hospital denies suspected killer got new liver
28 July 2010 14:49
The widely reported liver transplant at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital to alleged killer Johnny Concepcion never took place, a spokesperson told Reuters Health on Tuesday.
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Mom's pregnancy diet not tied to wheezing risk
28 July 2010 16:41
A woman's overall diet during pregnancy may not be related to her child's risk of developing wheezing problems by preschool age, a new study suggests.
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Philippines claims success on organ trafficking
28 July 2010 17:01
The Philippines said Wednesday that efforts to stop poor people from selling their kidneys to rich and mostly foreign patients had worked.
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