A vaccine that primes the immune system to attack prostate cancer can extend the lives of men in the advanced stages of the disease, researchers say. Men who had the experimental vaccine lived on average 8 to 9 months longer than men who had inactive, placebo injections.What do we know already?About 35,000 men are diagnosed [...]
Vaccinating children in Africa and Mexico against one of the most common causes of diarrhoea – a germ called rotavirus – has been shown to cut cases of diarrhoea and reduce deaths from diarrhoea-related illness in children. Is it now time to add the vaccine to the UK childhood vaccine schedule?What do we know already?Even [...]
What does it take to become a doctor? Filmmaking brothers Brent and Craig Renaud went behind the scenes at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, where they followed a group of first-year residents. Watch a web-exclusive video with them here. (Dateline NBC)
So what about the safe? The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature’s most mysterious lives and intensifies one of its greatest mysteries: Was the author of “The Catcher in the Rye” keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house?
Vaccines against rotavirus, which can kills babies and young children within days by causing severe diarrhea, could save 2 million children over the next decade, experts said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vaccines against rotavirus, which can kills babies and young children within days by causing severe diarrhea, could save 2 million children over the next decade, experts said Wednesday.
The stereotype that many middle-aged people get depressed and must perk up their lives with sports cars and affairs may be an outdated myth, scientists say.
There were a record number of organ donations in Ontario last year. The Trillium Gift of Life Network says nearly 700 lives were saved because of organ donations in 2009
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