Maggie Fox

Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey

reuters.com
8 hrs ago 13 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

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UPDATE 1-Merck vaccine protects men from wart virus, too

pharmiweb.co.uk
13-Nov-2008 123 related
        

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A vaccine designed to protect women and girls from cervical cancer caused by a wart virus may protect men, too, maker Merck and Co reported on Thursday....

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U.S. bans melamine-tainted Chinese dairy products

washingtonpost.com
13-Nov-2008 19 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States issued an import alert for Chinese-made food products on Thursday, calling for foods to be stopped at the border unless importers can certify they are either free of dairy or free of...

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Experts urge more health care aid to states

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13-Nov-2008 12 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A huge boost in federal aid to states for health care programs could help kick-start the moribund U.S. economy where consumer and business demand has fallen dramatically, a former senior Clinton...

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Wide-hipped fossil changes picture of Homo erectus

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13-Nov-2008 46 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fossil of a wide-hipped Homo erectus found in Ethiopia suggests females of the pre-human species swayed their hips as they walked and gave birth to relatively developed babies with big heads,...

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Four drug combination helps in lung cancer: U.S. study

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13-Nov-2008 44 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Combining two chemotherapy drugs with two targeted therapies was safe and appeared to help patients with advanced lung cancer live longer, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

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U.S. faulted over failure to nab TB travelers

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13-Nov-2008 5 related
        

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has failed to fix all the coordination problems among agencies that helped two men with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis elude border security in 2007, investigators said on...

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Telescopes get visual of planets around another sun

reuters.com
13-Nov-2008 365 related
        

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has found its own planet, the first so-called exoplanet to be found purely visually. One set of images shows three giant...

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Mystery solved: How bleach kills germs

reuters.com
13-Nov-2008 35 related
        

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bleach has been killing germs for more than 200 years but U.S. scientists have just figured out how the cleaner does its dirty work. It seems that hypochlorous acid, the active ingredient in bleach, attacks...

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Study yields clues to why some tumors spread (Reuters)

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13-Nov-2008 7 related
        

Reuters - A small fragment of genetic material may mean the difference between an easily treated local tumor and an aggressive cancer that spreads throughout the body, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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