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In a long-term study of the health of the individuals of in the United States, the U.S. Public Health Service documented the chances of developing heart disease among different groups in the population.

An ugly scramble is brewing over the swine flu vaccine - and when it becomes available the United States and other nations could find drug companies easily breaking contracts.

Lung Cancer Attacks at The Age of 70, Does it give You More Freedom to Smoke? >> Posted By WikiMap 3 hours, 3 minutes ago in News Various factors have been associated with the development of lung cancer including tobacco, which is the most responsible for one of every six deaths in the United States.

An international team of researchers from several countries, including Australia, Canada and the United States, identified two genes that dictate the number of moles an individual will get, raising the risk of skin cancer. As Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, explains: 'The number of moles you have is one of the strongest risk factors for melanoma - stronger than sunshine. This paper shows that we found two important genes that control the number of moles you have. Those genes also give you an extra risk of melanoma.' As a result of their findings, the researchers believe that the warnings about the risk of sunbathing are overstated, emphasizing that that only a small percentage of melanoma cases are caused by sunlight. Says Dr. Veronique Bataille, a ...MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

More than 2 million people in the United States will suffer a bone fracture every year due to osteoporosis.

PolyMedix, Inc. (OTCBB: PYMX), an emerging biotechnology company developing acute care products for infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent assigned to PolyMedix relating to angiogenesis inhibitors. The patent, number 7,553,876, entitled 'Polycationic Compounds and Uses Thereof,' relates to therapeutic uses of PolyMedix compounds for inhibiting angiogenesis.

In the United States, adolescence is a time when many teens become less interested in academics. A new longitudinal study has found that this disengagement is greater for American teens than for Chinese teens. The study, by psychologists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, appears in the July/August 2009 issue of Child Development, a journal.