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HIV tests not yet routine; many don't know they're infected, scientists say
Published on Friday 21 November 2008 - 05:00 - http://www.canadaeast.com/Two years after the U.S. government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it,...
Study Finds Statins Reduce Heart Disease Risk
Published on Friday 21 November 2008 - 04:48 - http://www.thecrimson.com/Four hundred fifty thousand people will die this year of coronary heart disease, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and half of them will be healthy individuals who do not...
Whither The Sanity Of Parents?
Published on Friday 21 November 2008 - 03:46 - http://keralaonline.com/By resolution 836(IX) of 14 December 1954, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recommended that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day on 20 November, to be observed as a day of...
Are You Lying To Yourself?
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 23:22 - http://www.basilandspice.com/Dubbed An Apostle for Fitness in her profile in the Wall Street Journal, Carole has been a featured guest on more than sixty radio and television shows, including NBC s Today show, CBS s Early...
Abbott Settles Tri-Cor Litigation For $184 Million
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 22:40 - http://www.pharmalot.com/The deal comes 10 days after a trial had begun in federal court in Delaware into allegations the drugmaker tried to keep generic versions of its TriCor cholesterol med from becoming available by...
Abbott to pay $184M to settle drug lawsuit
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 22:05 - http://chicagobusiness.com/(Reuters) — Abbott Laboratories Inc. said it settled a lawsuit related to the sale of its cholesterol-lowering formulations and would pay about $184 million to resolve the claims. 'Abbott shares...
HIV tests not yet as routine as cholesterol checks
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 21:50 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/WASHINGTON -- Two years after the government urged that HIV tests become as common as cholesterol checks there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus don't know...
Avoiding bad cholesterol may help burn fatty deposits
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 19:58 - http://foodconsumer.org/Want to burn'some fat?'' Cut your intake of bad'cholesterol.'' A new study published in'the open-access journal PLoS ONE suggests that the so-called bad cholesterol or'low density lipoprotein...
Genes don't add much value for predictions of type 2 diabetes risk [Genetic Future]
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 18:15 - http://www.scienceblogs.com/At Gene Expression, p-ter points to two studies in this week's New England Journal of Medicine examining the predictive value of known genetic markers for type 2 diabetes. ''Both studies find the...
Business Briefs
Published on Thursday 20 November 2008 - 16:42 - http://www.explorehoward.com/Sears appliance showroom will open at Centre at Laurel A new Sears Home Appliance Showroom will celebrate its grand opening Nov. 22 with free children's fingerprinting by the Laurel Police...
