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Leila Denmark dies at 114; pediatrician practiced until she was 103
Dr. Leila Daughtry Denmark, a Georgia pediatrician who was the country's oldest known practicing physician when she retired at 103, died Sunday at her daughter's home in Athens, Ga., her family announced. She was 114.
Denmark was the world's fourth-...Tags: Parenting, Denmark, Epidemics and Plagues, Lilly Eli & Co, Health and Safety at School
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A spam filter for HIV is in the works
TechnologyWorld AIDS Day: David Heckerman invented Microsoft's spam filter. Now he's hoping to apply the same thinking to preventing AIDS.... -
Late Night: Dr. Stephen Colbert says 'clearly vaccines are dangerous'
Show TrackerOn Thursday's "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert waded into one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: childhood vaccinations.... -
People more likely to lie when texting, study finds
TechnologyPeople are more likely to lie via text than other types of communication. At the same time, people are more likely to be angry if they are lied to via text.... -
With memories of the 2009 pandemic, Mexico braces for flu season
World NowREPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities report a fresh outbreak of the swine flu that killed hundreds and virtually paralyzed this sprawling capital in 2009. But the number of cases fits the "normal" flu-season pattern and should not cause... -
Malaria may kill twice as many people as believed, study says
World NowMalaria could be killing twice as many people as experts have believed, a new study suggests. It estimates that 1.2 million people died of the disease in 2010, nearly twice as many as estimated by the World Health Organization, which is skeptical of the... -
Measles outbreak kills at least 20 Afghan children
World NowHealth officials on Tuesday reported a deadly measles outbreak in rural western Afghanistan that they said was compounded by severe winter weather hampering access to the area.... -
Renato Dulbecco dies at 97; 1975 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Dr. Renato Dulbecco, an Italian American virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for demonstrating how certain types of viruses invade mammalian cells to cause cancer, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in La Jolla....Tags: Indiana University, David Baltimore, Cancer, Science and Technology, Russia
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Effort to stop polio aims to vaccinate 111 million children in four days
World NowHealth groups are trying to immunize more than 111 million African children against polio in only four days, hoping to squelch an incurable disease that is all but gone in the West.... -
Proposal to require restaurants to disclose immigration checks rebuffed
L.A. NOWOnly Supervisor Neil Derry, the measure's sponsor, voted in favor of the plan that would have color-coded the A, B and C grade cards that restaurants receive during their annual health inspection and display in their windows....
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