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AFP - Pfizer has dropped its bid to market its potency pill Viagra over the counter in Europe, the US pharmaceutical giant announced Thursday.

Reuters - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) — Experts hope that letting
kids have their fingers do the texting will increase compliance with the
food diaries that are such a critical part of successful dieting.

AP - A little less “I’m Lovin’ It” could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure the effect of TV fast-food ads.

AFP - The Roman Catholic church on Thursday said it has sufficient support in the Philippine congress to defeat a controversial family planning bill promoting sex education and the use of contraceptives.

Reuters - Banning fast-food advertising on television in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, researchers said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Women who smoke during pregnancy may cause permanent blood vessel damage in their children that may become evident as early as young adulthood and raise the risk for heart attack and stroke, Dutch investigators reported today.

AP - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation’s first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.

AP - D’Zhana Simmons says she felt like a “fake person” for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. “But I know that I really was here,” the 14-year-old said, “and I did live without a heart.”

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers say
they’ve developed a new long-term method of monitoring the location and
survival of cancer-killing cells within the body.

Reuters - Older men and younger women fare worse with stomach, or “gastric” cancer than patients in other gender and age groups, research shows.

AFP - School pupils throughout Europe will soon be offered free fruit every week under an EU initiative agreed Wednesday to improve children’s health and tackle obesity.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — A compound that boosts
growth hormone levels in Alzheimer’s patients may not slow the disease,
new research suggests.

AP - The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions, but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Ear infections are common in children, and
may occur for a variety of reasons.