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Updated : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:03:06 GMT

Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya (AFP)

AFP - Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.



Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:03:20 GMT

Asthma Rates Rising Across the U.S. (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma rates are increasing across the United States, a new government study shows, but certain states have significantly lower rates of the respiratory disease.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:49:27 GMT

Brazil's Silva quits smoking after 50 years (AP)

AP - Brazil's president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.



Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:34:31 GMT

Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening (AP)

AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.



Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:04:34 GMT

WHO: over 85M African kids get polio vaccination (AP)

AP - The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio.



Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:15:26 GMT

HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow Cells (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Medications can reduce the level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn't disappear and often roars back when patients stop taking their pills. Now, research is giving scientists new insight into how the virus manages to hide and avoid the killing powers of medicine.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:48:37 GMT