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Portugal police boss suspended for saucy X-mas email (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:04:22 +0000

Reuters - A Portuguese city suspended its police chief for sending a Christmas email greeting to its entire municipal workforce which contained images of scantily clad women and seasonal wishes for a great sex life.

How Personalized Medicine Is Changing Cancer Treatments (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:25:03 +0000

LiveScience.com - Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs and author Christopher Hitchens, who both recently succumbed to their respective cancers, were among a select few cancer patients to have their entire genomes sequenced. Doctors were hoping to tailor each man's cancer treatment by identifying genetic mutations within the cancer that might be treatable with certain drugs — an approach known as personalized medicine.

AIDS group seeks LA vote on condoms in porn films (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:28:30 +0000

Reuters - Voters in Los Angeles, home to the U.S. porn industry, could soon be asked to decide whether condoms should be required in adult films to reduce sexually transmitted diseases.

Did Alternative Medicine Kill Steve Jobs? (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:45:00 +0000

LiveScience.com - After Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2003, he allegedly delayed surgery to remove the tumor — the recommended treatment — for nine months.

Steve Jobs and Pancreatic Cancer: Why This Disease Is So Deadly (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:55:00 +0000

LiveScience.com - For people living with pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs' life was likely an inspiration.

Steve Jobs and Pancreatic Cancer: Why This Disease Is So Deadly (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:20:01 +0000

LiveScience.com - For people living with pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs' life was likely an inspiration.

Steve Jobs and Pancreatic Cancer: Why This Disease Is So Deadly (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:20:01 +0000

LiveScience.com - For people living with pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs' life was likely an inspiration.

Health Buzz: Cell Phones Don’t Increase Kids’ Cancer Risk (U.S. News & World Report)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:44:36 +0000

U.S. News & World Report - Cell phones don't increase kids' cancer risk, a new study suggests. Researchers compared the cell phone habits of nearly 1,000 children and adolescents ages 7 to 19 in Western Europe, including 352 who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor between 2004 and 2008, and 646 who were healthy. They found that regular cell phone users were no more likely to have developed a brain tumor than were never-users, according to findings published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ...

Benign Brain Tumors Not Linked to Cell Phones (LiveScience.com)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:31:00 +0000

LiveScience.com - Using a cell phone for many years does not increase the risk of developing a benign type of brain tumor, a new Danish study finds.

High-spending Arab tourists flock to Turkey (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Technology News — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:15:13 +0000

Reuters - Dozens of Gulf Arab women in flowing black veils whisk through one of Istanbul's most luxurious shopping malls, clutching bags of lingerie, shoes and toys, swarms of children in tow.

Swine flu vaccine safe in pregnancy: study (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Health News — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:21:19 +0000

Reuters - The swine flu shot appears to be safe for pregnant women, according to a new government report that tallies health problems occurring after the vaccinations.

Medicare will keep covering Roche’s Avastin (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Health News — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:35:32 +0000

Reuters - Medicare will continue coverage of Roche Holdings' drug Avastin for breast cancer regardless of what U.S. health regulators decide about the medicine, a spokesperson for the health insurer said.

Experts: Seeds tainted by E. coli still out there (AP)

Yahoo! News: Health News — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:32:33 +0000

AP - Contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds are likely the source of Europe's deadly E. coli outbreaks, health experts warned Thursday, predicting there could be more infections from seeds still in the food chain.

Analysis: Life saving lung cancer test to set off cost debate (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Health News — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:20:00 +0000

Reuters - A landmark study showing that routine lung screening of heavy smokers and former smokers using low dose CT scans could save thousands of lives is sure to set off a fierce debate about the cost of such testing on an overburdened healthcare system.

Cancer treatment funds run out for Swazi patients (AP)

Yahoo! News: Health News — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:19:33 +0000

AP - Swaziland's government has run out of money to send its cancer patients to neighboring South Africa for treatment, and a spokeswoman said Thursday the tiny impoverished kingdom does not have any government hospitals that can provide chemotherapy or radiation therapy.