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AP - The British Cabinet discussed the early warnings about a link between smoking and lung cancer more than 50 years ago, but viewed the threat as minor and did little for fear of losing tax revenue, according to documents released Friday.

AP - Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that scientists can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which holds the promise of curing Parkinson’s disease and diabetes but raises ethical concerns about the limits on human life.

AP - Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that scientists can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which holds the promise of curing Parkinson’s disease and diabetes but raises ethical concerns about the limits on human life.

AP - The British Cabinet received early warnings about the link between smoking and lung cancer more than 50 years ago, but viewed the threat as minor and did little for fear of losing tax revenue, according to documents released Friday.

AP - A baffling phenomenon known as sudden infant death syndrome is one of the leading causes of death for children under 1. Now, British researchers say they may have found a contributing factor: bacteria.

Reuters - Toronto will host a movie event billed
as the world’s first-ever film festival dedicated to breast
cancer awareness, a Canadian charity said.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) — Treatment with the
anti-rejection drug sirolimus may lead to increased risk of diabetes in
kidney transplant patients, say researchers who analyzed data on about
20,000 Medicare patients who had kidney transplants between 1995 and
2003.

As much as we complain about our doctors, we need to do our part and open a line of communication with them so they can do their job more effectively in healing us.  Most of us complain that our doctors make us wait and that the pills they give us don’t get the desired results […]

AP - Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation’s health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people’s obsession with video games might be put to good use. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced Thursday it will give a dozen research teams up to $200,000 each […]

Reuters - Staying connected with family
and friends may delay memory decline among the elderly, new
research confirms.

Reuters - A German folk saying that means
“every child costs the mother one tooth” may hold a lot of
truth, research published on Thursday indicates.

Reuters - Getting adequate amounts of
vitamin A during pregnancy may reduce the risk of having a
child with cleft palate, Norwegian researchers report.

Reuters - As booster vaccines in young
children, the DTaP vaccine, which protects against diphtheria,
tetanus, and whooping cough, can be combined with the
inactivated poliovirus (IPV) vaccine without reducing the
effectiveness of either, new research shows.

AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.

AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.