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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kid's meals at popular fast-food restaurants deliver more than a quick lunch or dinner -- 90 percent of them have far more than a meal's worth of calories and many are loaded with fat and salt too, according to a report released on Monday.

High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight and growth rate by about 50 percent in mouse models of brain, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers, researchers from the National Institutes of health (NIH) report in the August 5, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has reported to a federal prison in eastern Kentucky.Prison spokesman Larry E. Whitman says Scruggs entered a federal prison in Ashland at 11 a.m. EDT on M...

A report published in the August 5, 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine says that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has played down the benefits of prostate cancer screening for men above the age of 75.According to the report, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is updating its 2002 report on prostate cancer screening recommendations.read more

A multi-center US registry study examining the treatment of Barrett's esophagus with high-grade dysplasia showed that in 92 patients treated with endoscopic circumferential ablation who had at least one follow-up biopsy session, 90.2 percent were free of HGD at an average of one-year follow-up. This registry is the first to report on the use of circumferential ablation for BE HGD. The study appears in the July issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gel designed to protect women from the AIDS virus made using Gilead Sciences' drug Viread could protect men from infection during anal sex, British researchers reported on Tuesday.

AP - Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group.

Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group.

A gel designed to protect women from the AIDS virus made using Gilead Sciences' drug Viread could protect men from infection during anal sex, British researchers reported on Tuesday.

ASHLAND, Ky. — Anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs has reported to a federal prison in eastern Kentucky. Prison spokesman Larry Whitman says Scruggs entered a federal prison in Ashland...