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AFP - European doctors said Friday they had identified a genetic characteristic that strongly worsens survival chances for women with breast cancer who are treated with a common form of chemotherapy.

AP - Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a blood-clotting drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Ligand Pharmaceuticals is effective for short-term use, despite reservations by FDA scientists.

Reuters - Protein accumulations, or
plaques, characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease can be
eliminated from the brains of mice, researchers report, by
encouraging scavenger immune cells called macrophages to do
their work.

Reuters - A new analysis of current
research provides “the strongest evidence to date” that giving
small children supplemental vitamin D will help prevent them
from developing type 1 diabetes later on, according to the
review’s co-author.

Reuters - “I’m sorry. You don’t have breast
cancer,” the oncologist told Charmaine Atkenson.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

AP - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will quit selling at year’s end — and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.

Reuters - An older person’s likelihood of
entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is
particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new
research indicates.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease
often includes helping with all daily activities, including eating.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has awarded more than ￡3million to fund a research centre that will investigate the causes of type 1 diabetes - a condition that results from an immune attack on the body’s insulin producing cells. The study, known as the JDRF Centre for Diabetes Genes, Autoimmunity and Prevention (D-GAP), aims to […]

AFP - The World Health Organisation said Friday that only a total ban on all forms of tobacco advertising can stop the “constantly mutating virus” of the marketing industry and protect vulnerable young people.

AP - A woman in a northern Australian city gave birth to a healthy baby girl after a rare full-term ectopic pregnancy, a hospital official said Friday.

AP - Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday.

(NaturalNews) Olive and grape extracts derived as byproducts of oil and wine manufacturing proved to be more effective food preservatives than pure antioxidant chemicals in a new study conducted by Portuguese researchers and published in the journal “Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies.”
“We can assume that the natural extracts grape extract and olive extract are […]

(NaturalNews) Have you ever tried slowing down your breath? What is the fewest number of breaths that you can take in one minute? When you breathe deeply and slowly, can you feel your mind relaxing? You may be surprised to discover many benefits for your body and mind from breathing slowly. It may in fact […]