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Source: Xinhua Published: February 22, 2012 15:50
Tongrentang Co., the largest producer of traditional Chinese medicine, has announced that the company will no longer have franchised outlets, after a scam at one of its franchised stores tarnished its reputation.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 22, 2012 13:57
Women are less likely to get immediately treatment for heart attack and more likely to die than men, according to a new study.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 22, 2012 13:20
A 19-year-old Indonesian woman has died of avian influenza on the outskirts of Jakarta, putting the total death toll from the disease to three this year, a statement from health ministry said on Wednesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 22, 2012 09:29
More Americans die as a result of hepatitis C infection annually than from HIV-related causes, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 18, 2012 10:13
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday allowed the use of Korlym as the first approved medical therapy to control high blood sugar levels in adults with endogenous Cushing's syndrome.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 18, 2012 10:13
A group of global public health and influenza experts at a WHO-summoned meeting reached consensus on Friday, extending the temporary moratorium on making public the entire manuscripts of new laboratory-modified H5N1 viruses.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 15, 2012 16:24
Antibiotics does little help for people with sinus infections and its overuse is warned against by US researchers in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 15, 2012 14:23
Antibiotics that doctors typically prescribe for sinus infections works no better than a dummy pill in getting rid of the ailment, according to a study to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 15, 2012 10:54
Even short-term exposure to air pollution is enough to increase the risk of heart attack, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association as quoted by media reports Wednesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 14, 2012 13:21
Turkey's first face transplant patient Ugur Acar on Monday saw himself in the mirror for the first time after a successful surgery three weeks ago, the country's semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
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Source: Reuters Published: February 09, 2012 19:30
Awareness of heart disease, the leading killer of US women, received a boost on Wednesday when supermodel Christie Brinkley, singer Gloria Estefan and other stars took to the catwalk in designer red dresses on the eve of New York Fashion Week.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 08, 2012 16:14
The tuberculosis prevalence rate in Cambodia has seen a 36 percent decline in the last decade, according to a new survey released on Wednesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 08, 2012 13:32
The US government on Tuesday announced new efforts to fight Alzheimer's disease, including immediately making an additional 50 million US dollars available for cutting-edge Alzheimer's research.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 08, 2012 13:30
Nearly all Americans consume much more sodium than they should, according to a report released Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the sodium comes from common restaurant or grocery store items.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 04, 2012 11:11
US First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Texas next week as one stop of her three-day nationwide tour to promote her initiative to combat childhood obesity, the White House said Friday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 03, 2012 13:14
China on Thursday published draft regulations on the diagnosis and verification of occupational diseases to seek public feedback.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 03, 2012 09:30
Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to a new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
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Source: Xinhua Published: February 03, 2012 09:28
Vitamin D deficiency, which has long been a risk factor for diseases of osteoporosis and diabetes, may play a role in infertility both for men and women, according to a research by Austrian scientists.
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Source: Global Times Published: January 29, 2012 20:03
Twice a year, once after National Day, and another after Spring Festival, workplaces across the country descend into a fortnight-long crisis unlike any other. Chinese coworkers stare dead-eyed across their desks, if they are not lying face down asleep. Productivity drops to record low levels, while ...
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Source: Xinhua Published: January 26, 2012 14:12
The number of newborns in South Korea dropped for the third straight month in November despite the government's continuous efforts to tackle the country's declining birthrate, a report showed Thursday.
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