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Reuters Health News: 01-24-2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being open and easy-going can win you friends, and it probably won't raise your cancer risk either, according to a study published Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Obese men may get falsely reassuring results on prostate cancer screening tests, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The outbreak of deadly bird flu in Asia spurred the EU on Monday to check Europe's preparedness for the spread of a disease that scientists warn may become pandemic.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Batches of human embryonic stem cells available under the strict policies of the U.S. government are contaminated with an animal molecule and are probably no good for using to treat people, scientists reported on Sunday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators should pull Pfizer Inc.'s arthritis drugs Celebrex and Bextra from the market because they are too risky, U.S. consumer watchdog group Public Citizen said in a letter on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "morning after" treatment for the AIDS virus can help prevent infection after a rape, contact with a contaminated needle or even a night of passion without a condom, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A fatally ill Thai girl probably spread deadly bird flu to her relatives last year in what would mark the first documented case of human-to-human transmission of the feared virus, medical investigators said on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The impotence drug Viagra may also help prevent the abnormal growth of the heart seen in some types of heart disease, researchers reported on Sunday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are getting more cosmetic surgery and other treatments intended to improve their looks, with nearly a fifth more procedures carried out last year versus 2003, an industry body said Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The two popular painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex, heavily marketed as "super-aspirin," were prescribed for millions of patients who did not need them or should not have taken them, researchers said on Friday.
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