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Case history The father has a history of hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia, both well-controlled with medications that have not been changed for several years. A review of symptoms was neg...

A 2-year-old girl in northern China is in critical condition after testing positive for bird flu, state media said Sunday. It is China's second confirmed case of the virus this month.

Needle exchange has been proven to be an effective HIV prevention technique. Yet, the federal government continues to prohibit and federal funding of needle exchange programs. But with the the...

A 2-year-old girl in northern China has tested positive for bird flu and is in critical condition - the second case of human infection in a month.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A woman in eastern China has died and a 2-year-old girl is critically ill in the north after becoming infected with bird flu, the Chinese Health Ministry said on Sunday.

Beijing - A two-year-old girl has been infected with bird fly and is in a critical condition in China's northern Shanxi province, a health official of the provincial government confirmed Sunday, according to a report by the Chinese Xinhua news agency...

IntroductionCommon variants that alter the risk of breast cancer are being discovered. Here, we determine how these variants influence breast cancer prognosis, risk, and tumour characteristics.Methods:We selected 1001 women with early onset non-familial invasive breast cancer from the Prospective study of Outcomes in Sporadic versus Hereditary breast cancer (POSH) cohort and genotyped 206 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across 30 candidate genes. After quality control, 899 cases and 133 SNPs remained. Survival analyses were used to identify SNPs associated with prognosis and to determine their interdependency with recognised prognostic factors. To identify SNPs that alter the risk of breast cancer, association tests were used to compare cases with controls from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. To search for SNPs affecting tumour biology, cases were stratified into subgroups according to oestrogen receptor (ER) status and grade and tested for association.Results:We

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials Thursday pledged a new, open process for approving drugs and foods from genetically engineered animals....

Closely following these developments is Tommy Payne, the executive vice president of public affairs for Reynolds. He recently took time for an interview on these legislative issues. An edited version follows:Q. What kind of legislative challenges and changes does Reynolds expect in 2009?A. We anticipate a busy year at the state and federal level, and it's not as much the incoming administration as it is this Congress. . . .This Congress will be interesting in that there will be alternative legislation introduced in the House, and I believe in the Senate as well. It will provide significant regulation of the tobacco industry, and more directly address the issue of the usage of tobacco products by minors and address harm reduction.The Waxman-Kennedy approach is in essence a 'Don't start, abstinence only' to reducing the consumption of tobacco products. Its goal is to decrease the total use of all tobacco products.The alternative bills, in utilizing the harm-reduction approach,

Kathmandu - The Nepalese government Sunday said it had begun culling thousands of birds including poultry following the discovery of bird flu in chicken in the eastern part of the country. Government officials said teams of specialists were mobilised...