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Reuters Health News: 01-07-2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The prescription weight-loss drug orlistat helps obese adults shed pounds and lower their cholesterol levels -- including those with diabetes or other risk factors for heart disease, according to a research review.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is to outlaw the selective abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls that has grown since the one-child policy was introduced more than 20 years ago.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman's ability to have a child using assisted technologies such as test-tube fertilization plummets to a 4 percent success rate after she turns 42, according to a U.S. government study published on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A lifetime of low-level exposure to lead in the environment may contribute to mental decline as people age, a study of older men suggests.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China named the first baby born at a Beijing hospital Thursday as the 1.3 billionth person of the world's most populous nation, more than two decades after a one-child policy was introduced to keep its numbers in check.
LONDON (Reuters) - Women who use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to relieve symptoms of the menopause are at increased risk of stroke, according to a review of 28 HRT trials.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene that may help block the AIDS virus from getting into cells seems to protect some people from the deadly and incurable infection, researchers said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene that causes a rare but severe form of epilepsy in people is also found in highly bred dogs, which could lead to new ways to treat the condition, an international team of researchers said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's prime minister vowed on Thursday to step up government efforts to fight HIV/AIDS as top media firms pledged to start a campaign against the disease in the country with the world's second-highest number of infections.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Emergency room doctors are urging people to protect themselves from winter's deadly companions, hypothermia and frostbite.
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