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Reuters Health News: 02-10-2005
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. PFE.N and Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Thursday they filed parallel lawsuits against Web site operators and spam advertisers that they say sell illegal cheap versions of Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Young women with low libido had good sex more often after using a testosterone spray, Australian researchers said on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who eat a relatively large amount of protein from red meat or dairy products may have an elevated risk of dying from heart disease, the results of a large study suggest.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More women may want to develop a taste for seaweed, if animal research is any indication of the food's potential cancer-fighting ability.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $15 million punitive damages award to a lifelong smoker who sued R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. after losing his legs from a cigarette-related illness.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising cost projections for the new Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with chronic pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia, appear to have abnormalities in the self-monitoring mechanism that allows the discrimination of internally produced versus externally produced stimuli, new research shows.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly, sick or disabled men and women who rely primarily on their spouse for care are more likely to be to be screamed at, threatened or otherwise subjected to potentially harmful behaviors than those whose care is not provided by a spouse, new study findings show.
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Doctors have successfully taken the first step toward separating the fused legs of Milagros Cerron, a 9-month-old Peruvian baby dubbed the "Little Mermaid" because of her rare birth defect, her parents said on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The global pharmaceutical industry is locked into a marketing "arms race" which is eroding margins for all companies, the chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday.
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