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WATCH: How to Handle a Heat Emergency
Dr. Richard Besser explains on how to stay safe in extreme weather conditions such as heat waves.
 
Richard E. Besser - Health - Business - Medicine - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Would You Lose Your Breasts to Prevent Cancer
Researchers have found that having a preventive mastectomy may reduce the risk of breast cancer in women with BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 mutations. They also discovered that preventively removing both a Fallopian tube and an ovary -- a procedure called a salpingo-oophorectomy -- lowered the risk of ovarian cancer, the risk of breast cancer in women who were never diagnosed with it before.
Cancer - Health - BreastCancer - Conditions and Diseases - Tobacco Alcohol and Health: Why the Sober Die Sooner
While the debate over the possible health benefits of alcohol continues to rage, new research sheds light on why, and to what extent those who drink, live longer than their sober peers.
Health - Substance Abuse - Addictions - Alcoholic beverage - Alcoholism Allergan Pleads Guilty, Settles Botox Probe
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Allergan pleads guilty for its off-label promotion of Botox and will pay $600 million to settle a longstanding federal investigation into whether the company's marketing of the drug's use misled physicians.
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Medical Journal Issues Correction On Vioxx Paper Letter Of The Week
— from Karen Lynne Lambert
“Regardless of how politics may try to dissuade or delude you, all you need to know is that my [chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome] is infectious. It is contagious. And it is spreading, unleashed, in the world's population. I am not afraid to say that I have AIDS without HIV — my second official clinical diagnosis. I am equally as unafraid of saying the most obvious thing about chronic fatigue syndrome: It sure does look like AIDS to me. We talk openly about preparing for an impending avian flu pandemic. Why not talk about the HIV-negative AIDS epidemic that already exists (and is spreading) amongst us?”
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