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SOUTHAMPTON, England (MedPage Today) -- Patients with chronic back pain got significant long-term benefit from a brief course of individualized instruction and exercise, investigators here reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Embryonic stem cells can be used to grow vats of red blood cells, which could lead to the creation of 'farms' that could provide limitless sources of blood, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- High levels of arsenic inurine may be linked with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes,researchers report.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- The obesity epidemic inAmerica has gotten worse -- not better -- in the last year, despite publicservice campaigns warning about the health risks posed by carrying toomuch weight, a new report found.

A measure that would prohibit enactment of any law in Arizona that requires people to obtain health coverage has qualified for the November ballot after a Superior Court judge ruled that the 22 signatures originally declared invalid should be counted, the Capital Media/Arizona Daily Star reports.

USA Today on Monday examined how 'traditional Navajo healing is merging with modern medicine' at the Page, Ariz.-based Banner Page Hospital. About 50% of the patients at the hospital come from a nearby Navajo reservation. 'Hospitals have long struggled with providing health care' to American Indians who 'often don't trust modern medicine and techniques,' USA Today reports.

The average stay for a patient diagnosed with mental illness dropped to a historic low of 55 per cent in Canada, according to a report released Tuesday.

A new online initiative called One Life is targeting sexually active Canadians 18 to 30 years old and urging them to practice safer sex and undergo HIV testing, the Toronto Star reports. Launched Monday, the campaign, which includes the musical group U2 and singer Mary J. Blige, is a collaboration between Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada and Universal Music Canada. It also includes HIV/AIDS service organizations, medical clinics, testing facilities and physicians.read more

Caribbean nations will establish national HIV/AIDS workplace policies as soon as a regional policy modeled after International Labour Organization guidelines is ready, the Jamaica Observer reports. According to Carl Browne, director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS who spoke at the XVII International AIDS Conference earlier this month, the organization will work with individual countries to implement national workplace policies tailored to specific needs with the goal of benefitting employees and their families.read more

Stricter Medi-Cal eligibility rules proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) would result in higher health insurance premiums for insured Californians because physicians and hospitals would shift the costs of treating more uninsured patients, according to a new study commissioned by Health Access California, the Sacramento Bee reports.