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Michael Jackson's official autopsy report has not been released to the public but the chairman of the anesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine was able to review and...

The Northern Territory Government says a plan is underway to reduce massive waiting lists for surgery at the Royal Darwin Hospital.

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Rich countries should make more vaccine available to poorer nations where the H1N1 virus is starting to hit, U.N. health officials said on Sunday.

An attorney representing North River Boats Inc. owner Brian Brush asked for a delay so Brush could be evaluated to see if he's competent to stand trial, court officials said this afternoon.Pacific Cou...

So will banning flavored cigarettes, which made up some 1 percent of the market, stop teens from opening the door to addiction? I wouldn't bet on it. . . . Mortality isn't much fun to contemplate. Luckily for them, most young people don't. Even when you lose someone you love to cigarettes, you can convince yourself that it has nothing to do with you. From the perspective of a 20-year-old, 53 looks very far away. Until it isn't. In a recent speech, President Obama sought to enlist young people in the fight for health-care reform, relying on a University of Michigan study that found that about 40 percent of Americans would lose health-insurance coverage in the next 10 years. The Joe Wilson wannabe I debated on TV that day kept attacking Obama for using a bad study as a scare tactic. As far as I could tell, the study was fine. The real problem was it wasn't a very good scare tactic: The young - among those most likely to lose insurance when they age off their parents' plan - don't ge

Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:STSI) makers of low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products, announced that the company will utilize a novel, patented method for cultivation, curing and preparation of tobacco to formulate dissolvable smokeless tobacco products. This new curing process was the subject of a patent application filed in December, 2008. Its use has resulted in tobacco leaf with significantly lower levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) than previously achieved using the StarCured curing process: the International Agency for Research on Cancer previously has reported on the low levels of nitrosamines in Star's products. The company believes that this novel process, as...