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Nevada officials: Luxor guests had Legionnaires’

January 31, 2012
(AP) -- Health officials in Las Vegas said Monday that the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was found in water samples at the Luxor hotel-casino this month after a guest died of the form of pneumonia.

Women Wheelchair Basketball Athletes Say The Inclusion Of Able-Bodied Athletes On The Team Had Many Different Types Of Advantages

January 18, 2012
Wheelchair basketball: It's a fast, skillful game, dazzling to watch, gruelling to play. It's also a sport that in Canada has become one of the most inclusive, welcoming athletes with disability and able-bodied athletes alike to its leagues and teams. And athletes like it that way...

‘Hundreds’ of Austrian women had PIP implants: report

January 15, 2012
Hundreds of Austrian women, many more than the eight as first thought, may have had potentially dangerous French-made breast implants in cheap operations in eastern Europe, a press report said Sunday.

Study shows early primate had a transitional lemur-like grooming claw

January 11, 2012
Celebrities are channeling a distant relative with what Harper's Bazaar describes as the latest trend in nail fashion for 2012: claws. But this may not be the first time primates traded their nails for claws.

Five women in Belgium have had PIP implants removed

January 10, 2012
Five women in Belgium have had potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed since the beginning of December, the country's health watchdog said Saturday.

Prehistoric predators with supersized teeth had beefier arm bones

January 4, 2012
Durham, NC The toothiest prehistoric predators also had beefier arm bones, finds a new fossil study. Sabertooth tigers may come to mind, but these extinct cats weren't the only animals with fearsome fangs. Take the false sabertooth cats also known as nimravids and their catlike ...

Eva Peron may have had secret lobotomy: researchers

December 24, 2011
Eva Peron, the glamorous first lady of Argentina in the 1940s and 50s, may have been given a secret lobotomy shortly before her death at age 33, scientific researchers said in a new report.

Hearing Devices More Apt to Fail in Children Who Had Meningitis

December 22, 2011
THURSDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- For children who have an implanted cochlear device, rates for replacement due to device failure are low. However, children who have hearing loss caused by bacterial meningitis before a device was implanted appear to be at increased risk for it to fail, ...

World’s first super predator had remarkable vision

December 7, 2011
South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of the earth's first food chain. This important story will be accompanied ...

Follow-up study finds prolonged fatigue for those who had chemotherapy for breast cancer

December 5, 2011
In a follow-up study, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that patients who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer might experience prolonged fatigue years after their therapy. The new study, published in the American Cancer Society's current issue of CANCER, is a follow-up to a study on fatigue ...

Follow-up study finds prolonged fatigue for those who had chemotherapy for breast cancer

December 5, 2011
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a follow-up study, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that patients who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer might experience prolonged fatigue years after their therapy. The new study, published in the American Cancer Society's current issue of CANCER, ...

Breast Cancer Genetic Profiling Had Not Achieved Personalized Medicine Yet

November 20, 2011
Although ten years of genetic profiling has had an enormous impact on the understanding of breast cancer, progress on individualizing therapy has been rather limited, researchers from the UK and USA reported in The Lancet this week. Specifically, the authors refer to the prognostic and predictive factors associated with personalized ...