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New artificial heart pump assists and repairs defective hearts PDF E-mail
by William Atkins   
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
American inventors and faculty at the University of Utah have developed an artificial heart pump that can assist the pumping of a person’s natural heart, but also helps to repair it by taking cardiac stem cells from the blood stream and injecting them into the heart.
 
Thinking may make you fat PDF E-mail
by William Atkins   
Monday, 08 September 2008
Canadian-led research shows “knowledge-based work” makes people eat more afterwards, which may contribute to the obesity problem in the world, as more people in industrialized countries do less physical labor and more intellectual tasks.
 
FDA announces first-time list of "potential" problem drugs PDF E-mail
by William Atkins   
Monday, 08 September 2008
The U.S. federal government on Friday began posting--for the first time--a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems in an effort to better inform physicians, the medical community, in general, and patients.
 
CDC finds over 2 million cases of tobacco-caused cancers in U.S. PDF E-mail
by William Atkins   
Saturday, 06 September 2008
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention found 2.4 million cases of tobacco-related cancers in the United States between the years of 1999 and 2004.
 
Tall men more at risk from prostate cancer PDF E-mail
by William Atkins   
Friday, 05 September 2008
A British study has linked the increased risk of prostate cancer to the height of men, but concluded height poses less of a risk than other factors such as age, heredity, and race.
 
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