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Reuters Health News: 04-03-2006
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sexually charged music, magazines, TV and movies push youngsters into intercourse at an earlier age, perhaps by acting as kind of virtual peer that tells them everyone else is doing it, a study said Monday.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's new Conservative government will scrap draft legislation which would have decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Celebrex, a treatment for arthritis, may help prevent colon cancer in high-risk patients, but it also raises the risk of heart attack and stroke, researchers said on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - Black patients with colorectal cancer are 20 percent less likely than white patients to be recommended for add-on (or "adjuvant") chemotherapy, new research indicates.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of obese U.S. children cannot fit into car seats, leaving them at risk in the event of a crash, researchers said on Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A rise in autism cases is not evidence of a feared epidemic but reflects that schools are diagnosing autism more frequently, a study said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poor blood sugar control and frequent emergency room visits are among the signs that a child or adolescent with diabetes may be suffering from depression, according to new research.
ATLANTIC CITY (Reuters) - Merck & Co. concluded its defense of the latest Vioxx product-liability trial on Monday, saying that two men who blame the withdrawn pain drug for their heart attacks had a series of pre-existing health problems that caused their attacks.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Health Ministry has barred the country's top AIDS activist group from a major U.N. forum on the epidemic, the group said on Monday, sparking a new row over AIDS policy.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. researchers said on Saturday they had transformed immature cells from men's testicles into powerful stem cells, which they then coaxed into becoming nerve, heart and bone cells.
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