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It's not working
The elevator doors open on the fifth floor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Peggy Murphy tentatively steps out, as if crossing a threshold in the struggle to stay ahead of her breast cancer. Last fall, she had been accepted into Dr. Leisha Emens' clinical...Tags: Breast Cancer, Preventative Medicine, Therapies, Biotechnology, Life
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S. Africa's new health minister reverses policy on HIV/AIDS
From the Associated PressSouth Africa's new health minister broke dramatically Monday with a decade of discredited government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine. Health Minister Barbara...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Foreign Aid, Preventative Medicine, Diseases, Government
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Official signals South Africa's new AIDS approach
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The new health minister broke dramatically yesterday from a decade of discredited government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine. Health...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Foreign Aid, Preventative Medicine, Epidemics and Plagues, Diseases
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Reporter Stephanie Desmon and photographer Chiaki Kawajiri spent the past six months following the lives of four women enrolled in a trial of an experimental breast cancer vaccine, and the Johns Hopkins oncologist who oversees it. They witnessed virtually...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Preventative Medicine, Diseases, Cancer
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Elusive cure
In a darkened slice of a convention center ballroom, Dr. Leisha Emens takes her place in front of hundreds gathered to hear about her latest research.
The Johns Hopkins oncologist doesn't look particularly comfortable in the spotlight. This is no way...Tags: Breast Cancer, Natural Science, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases
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Flu shots recommended for most kids
Flu season, with its aches, fever and cough, is around the corner, says Dr. Timothy Doran, chairman of pediatrics at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. This year, for the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all...Tags: Viral Diseases, Health Organizations, Preventative Medicine, Diseases, People
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What the vaccine does
In the nearly 40 years since the nation declared war on cancer, great advances have been made in breast cancer screening, early detection and treatment. The death rate for breast cancers has fallen. More is discovered all the time about the genetics and...Tags: Death and Dying, Medical Research, Breast Cancer, Preventative Medicine, Natural Science
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The trial of their lives
For the past two days, Annie Siple has patiently crisscrossed the Johns Hopkins medical campus for test after test, being scanned by big machines, pricked with small needles, fastened to electrodes, injected with dye. Soon she will find out who is...Tags: Breast Cancer, Walt Disney World Resort, Herbal Medicines, Biotechnology, Academic Progress
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Flu shots and babies
Washington PostThe question: If a pregnant woman gets a flu shot, might the child she's carrying be protected after birth? The study: Researchers randomly assigned 340 women in the third trimester of pregnancy to get a flu shot or a shot that contained a vaccine...Tags: Medical Research, Preventative Medicine, Washington Post Company, Pharmaceuticals, Medicine
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25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer, U.S. says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAbout a quarter of the nation's teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil last year in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday. "For a new vaccine, 25% is really very good," Lance Rodewald,...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, IMS Health Incorporated, Consumer Electronics Industry, Preventative Medicine, Merck & Company Incorporated
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Grief support for children
The Rainbows grief support program provides support groups for children who have suffered the loss of a significant person in their lives through death, divorce or separation. Free sessions will be offered to Anne Arundel County children from...Tags: Breast Cancer, Preventative Medicine, People, Pharmaceuticals, Mass Media
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US restrictions on bird flu vaccines over bioweapons fears baffles health experts
Associated Press WriterJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) _ When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the...Tags: Defense, Robert Gates, Preventative Medicine, Animal Diseases, Wars and Interventions
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