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- An estimated one-third of adults use prayer, in addition to conventional medical care and complementary and alternative therapies, for health concerns, according to an article in the April 26 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... click link for more info. |
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- Cholesterol levels vary with the seasons, reaching their highest levels in the winter months, according to an article in the April 26 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... click link for more info. |
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- Fifty years ago today, thousands of parents drove their school-age children to designated sites across the country for immunization with an experimental vaccine that they hoped would stop, once and for all, the raging polio epidemic that was leaving young Americans paralyzed and sometimes dead... click link for more info. |
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- Cystic fibrosis, also known as mucoviscidosis, is one of the most common genetic diseases with a fatal outcome in western Europe... click link for more info. |
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- A new screening technology that could detect lung cancer much earlier than ever before was funded today through matching grants of $1... click link for more info. |
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- Promising research into the causes of Alzheimer's disease, with an emphasis on the roles of such proteins as amyloid-beta and apolipoprotein E, will be the subject of a plenary session presentation on April 29 at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 56th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... click link for more info. |
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- For nearly three thousand years, people believed that epilepsy had a supernatural cause, but the most dangerous misconception about epilepsy is a modern one, according to epilepsy expert Jerome Engel, Jr... click link for more info. |
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- Anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are powerful medications that help women with epilepsy control their seizures; however, when these same women have to deal with reproductive issues and their epilepsy drugs, a myriad of problems can crop up, according to Mark Yerby, M... click link for more info. |
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- BAYVILLE, N.Y. - A 93-year-old woman whose house was damaged when Billy Joel slammed into it with his car had never heard of the Long Island singer until the accident, but now she expects him to pay for repairs. |
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- JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The state is using pizza delivery orders to track down residents who owe fines or fees to the courts and make the scofflaws pay. *States to tax scofflaws: Pay up or be outed on Web |
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- Paris Hilton's parents are venturing into reality TV with ''The Good Life,'' a series for NBC. It will feature 10 young women from around the country who will receive guidance on how to succeed and join ''the good life.'' |
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- NEW YORK - A college student who says he spent eight months sleeping in a library basement because he couldn't afford campus housing has been relocated to a free dormitory room, New York University officials said. |
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- A 17-year-old gay high school student put up posters last week with slogans he thought were catchy: "Queer Eye for Hunt High" and "Gay Guys Know Everything!" But the school principal ordered the posters taken down for being "disruptive" and irrelevant. |
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- ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 15-year-old boy on a wilderness expedition for emotionally troubled youths woke up to find a 400-pound brown bear with a bad attitude sitting at his feet. |
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- MISSOULA, Mont. - Volunteers armed with Vienna sausages and a tape recording of Tom and Betty Kuffel's voice managed to coax the family's skittish dog back into safety. |
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- LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden just got a double dose of motherhood. |
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- County, N.Y., town of Bedford were identified by the police on Monday as the remains of Zef Vulevic, a 42-year-old chef and businessman with interests in seven restaurants in New York and Connecticut. |
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- SAO PAULO - Add porn star to the list of U.S. jobs that are going overseas. |
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- LOS ANGELES - Halle Berry filed for divorce from her husband, Eric Benet. Tabloids speculated about Benet's faithfulness from nearly the moment they married in 2001. |
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- ATLANTA - To those for whom civic duty alone is not enough motivation to pay taxes, states are rolling out a new weapon: shame. |
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- NEW YORK - Brooke Shields, the mother of a nearly 1-year-old daughter, is writing a book about postpartum depression. Hyperion plans to publish ''Down Came the Rain'' in the spring of 2005. |
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- ATLANTA - CNN reporter Rym Brahimi resigned from her job following her engagement to King Abdullah II's half brother, Prince Ali, the network said. |
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- You shuttle the hungry horde to McDonald's. The kids dash to the Playland and disappear inside that climbing contraption. Your parental duty is to get them McFood fast - but you feel queasy about leaving them alone. |
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- BISMARCK, N.D. - A man who was arrested while leaving his wedding ceremony won't be enjoying his honeymoon quite yet. He first has to deal with a warrant for writing bad checks in Montana. |
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- WASHINGTON - Massachusetts business leaders, faced with a looming shortage of summer workers, are hitting the beaches - of the Virgin Islands. |
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- By Shafquat Rabbee : Bangladeshs major opposition party Awami League is known as a mover and shaker of Bangladeshs political history for the last half a century. This is the party that boastfully claims to have won the great liberation war of Bangladesh almost single handedly. |
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- NEW DELHI, April 27: Indias prime minister Tuesday pledged to go ahead with a controversial plan to divert 37 rivers flowing into the Bay of Bengal for irrigation and electricity projects, reports AFP. |
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- COUNTRYS first High tech Park with the allocation of 231.685 acres of land at Kaliakoir, close to Talibabad earth satellite station went under construction. The land was handed over to the Ministry of Science, Information and Communication and Technology (ICT) by the Land Ministry on April 24. This is just the starting of a big budget project that would create another high point for the country. |
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- BSS, COXS BAZAR, April 27 Myanmar Tuesday returned 44 Bangladeshi nationals, who were languishing in it jails, through a flag meeting between the border forces of the two countries. |
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- A 17th-century cello made by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari was stolen from a home over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday. |
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- [iHNed.cz - Sport] - Pro hokejový svaz sousední země je mistrovství také otázkou peněz. |
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- [iHNed.cz - Sport] - SKUPINA A Kazachstán - Lotyšsko 1:3 Branky a nahrávky: 33. Filatov (A. |
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- [iHNed.cz - Sport] - basketbal NBA, play-off, 1. kolo: Milwaukee - Detroit 92:109 (stav série 1: |
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- [iHNed.cz - Sport] - Ani včera nezatěžoval trenér fotbalových reprezentantů Karel Brückner své svěřence příliš podrobnými informacemi o hře Japonců, s nimiž se dnes... |
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