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  • A Cure That Can Be Worse Than the Illness: Popular Antibiotics May Carry Serious Side Effects0

    Concern is growing over side effects caused by a popular class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. The best known fluoroquinolones are Cipro (ciprofloxacin), Levaquin (levofloxacin) and Avelox (moxifloxacin). In 2010, Levaquin was the best-selling antibiotic in the United States. But by last year it was also the subject of more than 2,000 lawsuits from patients who

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  • Volunteers cross item off 9/11 victim’s “bucket list”0

    Years after her daughter, Ann, died in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, Jenette Nelson found Ann's "bucket list" on her old laptop. Buying or building a home in North Dakota was on that list, along with volunteering for a charity. Last week, more than 500 volunteers traveled to a remote corner of the state

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  • Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy0

    The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof recently visited the dairy of his childhood friend Bob Bansen, who has names for every cow in his herd and treats “his girls” like co-workers. Bob says, "if a cow is at her maximum health and maximum contentedness, she's profitable. I don't manage my farm so much from a

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  • Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy0

    The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof recently visited the dairy of his childhood friend Bob Bansen, who has names for every cow in his herd and treats “his girls” like co-workers. Bob says, "if a cow is at her maximum health and maximum contentedness, she's profitable. I don't manage my farm so much from a

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  • Radiation may up breast cancer risk in some women0

    A study by leading European cancer agencies- published Thursday in the journal BMJ– suggests that mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the disease. The radiation from mammograms might be especially harmful to them, so an MRI

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  • US health care: It’s officially a mess, institute says0

    The Institute of Medicine released a report on Thursday on the state of the U.S. health care system and how it wasted $750 billion in 2009- about 30 percent of all health spending- on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. As many as 75,000 people who died in 2005 would have lived if

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