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Are breast implants causing a rare blood cancer?

Are breast implants causing a rare blood cancer?

Disease And Conditons

27 Jan 2011
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning for a possible link between breast cancer and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), a rare ...

Study finds many defibrillators implanted unnecessarily

Study finds many defibrillators implanted unnecessarily

Health And Wellness, Science

05 Jan 2011
According to a new study, one in five patients who receive the heart-shocking, life-saving devices known as implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, or ICDs, may be getting them ...

Norad Santa Tracker Lets Kids Keep Tabs On Santa

Norad Santa Tracker Lets Kids Keep Tabs On Santa

Health And Wellness

24 Dec 2010
There was a time when kids would try to listen for the sound of Santa's reindeer on the roof. Today kids are keeping tabs on ...

 
Kourtney Kardashian’s son rushed to hospital for peanut allergy

Kourtney Kardashian’s son rushed to hospital for peanut allergy

Hollywood Health

23 Nov 2010
Kourtney Kardashian's son was rushed to hospital by medics after suffering an allergic reaction to peanut butt. Los Angeles medics rushed to the home Kardashian shares ...

Merck & Co.’s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin shows promise

Merck & Co.’s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin shows promise

Disease And Conditons

21 Nov 2010
According to a new study, Merck & Co.'s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin (known as MSD outside the US and Canada) lowered the risk of heart attacks ...

Pope Benedict XVI says use of condoms is now acceptable to help fight HIV

Pope Benedict XVI says use of condoms is now acceptable to help fight HIV

Disease And Conditons, Health And Wellness

20 Nov 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has said the use of condoms is now acceptable "in certain cases". Although the Catholic Church is strongly against artificial contraception, Benedict said ...

 
TSA pat-down makes breast cancer survivor show prosthetic breast

TSA pat-down makes breast cancer survivor show prosthetic breast

Health And Wellness, Hollywood Health

20 Nov 2010
Breast cancer survivor Cathy Bossi says she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down at an airport in North Carolina. Bossi, who works ...

UPDATE: Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

UPDATE: Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

Hollywood Health

20 Nov 2010
Country music band Montgomery Gentry front-man Eddie Montgomery has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The country music star, one half of the Montgomery Gentry duo, ...

UPDATE: FDA recalls painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet

UPDATE: FDA recalls painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet

Health And Wellness, Hollywood Health

20 Nov 2010
The highly debated prescription painkillers, Darvon and Darvocet (propoxyphene) were pulled off the market Friday at the request of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

 
UPDATE: FDA pulls painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet from US market

UPDATE: FDA pulls painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet from US market

Health And Wellness

19 Nov 2010
After 53 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has stated that drugs containing propoxyphene, sold under the names Darvon and Darvocet be pulled from ...

Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

Hollywood Health

19 Nov 2010
Country music singer Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry has announced he is battling prostate cancer. Montgomery, 47, who lives near Perryville in Boyle County will undergo ...

FDA pulls painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet from the market

FDA pulls painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet from the market

Disease And Conditons, Health And Wellness

19 Nov 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced they have pulled painkiller drugs Darvon and Darvocet from the market, following new clinical research that shows the ...

 
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