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Susan Love, doctor/patient
And now, she is the patient. For decades, as a surgeon, researcher, professor and medical celebrity of sorts, Susan Love has led the charge against breast cancer and for women's health. She served on President Clinton's cancer advisory board. She set up a...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Research, HPV Vaccine, Medical Specialization
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Radio journalists in Nigeria accused of spurring slayings
Two radio journalists have reportedly been charged in northern Nigeria on suspicion of airing a broadcast that incited the slayings of women vaccinating people against polio. The case centers on a program aired days before the shootings last week....
Tags: Immunization, Journalism, Ban Ki-moon, Diseases and Illnesses, Freedom of the Press
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Breast-feeding is on the rise in America, CDC says
Good news for babies: The number of mothers breast-feeding is rising across America. So says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a new report released Thursday. From 2000 to 2008, the proportion of mothers who breast-fed their infants rose...
Tags: Obesity, Immunization, Diseases and Illnesses, Ear Infection, Symptoms
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Gunmen kill polio immunization workers in northern Nigeria
Nine women working to immunize children against polio were killed Friday when gunmen opened fire on them in northern Nigeria, Kano state police said. Women involved in the vaccination drive were targeted in two areas of the northern city of Kano, news...
Tags: Shootings, Diseases and Illnesses, Pakistan, Meningitis, Islam
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Land mine blast kills 2 polio workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A land mine blast killed two polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, the latest in a recent wave of violence involving healthcare teams trying to eradicate the disease in the South Asian nation. The blast...
Tags: Shootings, Diseases and Illnesses, Pakistan, Abbottabad (Pakistan), Viral Diseases and Infections
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Adult non-flu vaccination levels 'unacceptably low,' CDC says
Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday that vaccination coverage levels in U.S. adults were “unacceptably low,” and that public health workers need to do more to make sure adults got immunizations to protect them from...
Tags: Whooping Cough, Diseases and Illnesses, Human papillomavirus, Drugs and Medicines, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Burt Reynolds hospitalized in ICU with flu symptoms
Burt Reynolds found himself in in the ICU on Friday after being hospitalized with a nasty case of the flu. The "Boogie Nights" and "Smokey and the Bandit" actor was placed in intensive care because he was "severely dehydrated," a rep told TMZ. Later...
Tags: Flu, Disease Prevention, Hart of Dixie (tv program), Diseases and Illnesses, Burt Reynolds
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Letters: Nurse, vaccinate thyself
Re "Flu's sticking point," Jan. 19 I read your article with great interest, looking forward to my fellow nurses explaining how important it is for people — healthcare workers in particular — to get their yearly flu shot. Instead, I learned...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Flu, Nursing, Disease Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses
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California flu hits 'widespread levels,' officials say
L.A. NOWAt least five people in California have died as state officials announced Friday that the flu has reached "widespread levels."... -
Amid serious flu season, should nurses be required to get shots?
L.A. NOWPublic health officials warned that the flu virus wreaking havoc elsewhere in the nation has finally arrived in California, causing widespread hospitalizations across the state.... -
Here it comes: California reporting widespread flu illnesses
L.A. NOWThe severe flu that spread across the U.S. has arrived in California and is causing illnesses and hospitalizations in much of the state.... -
Cancer death rates fall as HPV-associated cancers rise: U.S. report
This year’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, released online Monday, brought Americans good news and bad. Extending a trend since the early 1990s, authors reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that cancer...
Tags: Obesity, Prostate Cancer, Immunization, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research
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