Pope John Paul II's struggle with Parkinson's disease hasn't necessarily translated into more money for research on the malady, but it has helped raise awareness about the disease and, perhaps most importantly, provided hope and inspiration to those suffering from it.
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Like many 11-year-old boys, K.D. Jones loves sports. But at 5 feet, 175 pounds, he found his weight and the asthma it caused an obstacle to enjoying many activities.
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Peanuts, a dietary outcast during the fat-phobic 1990s, have made a comeback, with consumption soaring to its highest level in nearly two decades and more doctors recommending the nuts as part of a heart-healthy diet.
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Consumers now can comparison shop for hospitals before a health crisis forces a decision about where to go.
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Attorneys General from nine states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that they allege fails to protect the public from harmful mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, which they say pose a grave threat to the health of children.
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Attorneys general from Colorado and nine other states, major credit card companies and a federal agency agreed Thursday on a plan to prevent the illegal sale of tobacco products over the Internet.
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Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko sent a letter of gratitude to his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro for the medical care program Cuba has carried out over the last 15 years with children of that European nation affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.
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People who adhere strictly to raw food vegetarian diets are thin but have surprisingly robust bones, US researchers reported on Monday.
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via CNN | GNN staff |
Mon March 28, 2005
An operation to simultaneously reattach an Australian boy's foot and both his hands after a freak basketball accident was a success with the boy's fingers and toes alive and pink, surgeons said on Monday.
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Canada has dispatched one of the world's foremost experts on hemorrhagic fevers to Angola to help tackle the ever-worsening outbreak of Marburg virus in the impoverished African country.
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Doctors are developing a technique to prevent patients inside MRI scanners from getting too hot.
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via CNN | GNN staff |
Tue March 22, 2005
Some 16 to 17 million Americans voluntarily gave up their flu shot this past winter, so that the sick, the elderly and health care workers were protected nearly as much as in years past, government officials said Tuesday.
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Scores of scientific studies in the past decade have shown that olive oil, which is high in monounsaturated fat-the "good" fat-may prolong life by combating coronary heart disease and different types of cancer.
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German measles, one of the greatest fears of expectant mothers just a few decades ago, is no longer a health threat in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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