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VA adds 3 diseases to Agent Orange exposure list
THIELLS — The Department of Veterans Affairs has added three new diseases to the list of conditions associated with Agent Orange, a herbicide widely used during the Vietnam War that is believed to have had severe health effects on those exposed to it.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:33:13 -0700
Guidelines for insomnia, sleep disorders
LONDON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The British Association for Psychopharmacology has created guidelines to help psychiatrists and physicians treat those with sleep problems, researchers say. Sleep disorder - Insomnia - Health - Conditions and Diseases - United States
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:26:55 -0700
Summit: Pain treatment as a human right
MONTREAL, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Eighty percent of people with chronic pain do not get relief and there are those want pain treatment to be a human right, an Australian pain expert says. Chronic pain - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Pain - Human rights
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:11:45 -0700
Hair proves stress, heart attack linked
LONDON, Ontario, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Human hair shows chronic stresses -- including job, marital and financial -- play an important role in heart attacks, researchers in Canada say. Myocardial infarction - Canada - Heart disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:11:35 -0700
Celldex plummets after Pfizer ends vaccine pact
Pfizer Inc. is pulling out of an agreement with Celldex Therapeutics Inc. to fund the development of an experimental brain tumor vaccine. Celldex shares fell the most in almost two years. Pfizer - Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Brain tumor
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:33:26 -0700
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