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Reuters Health News: 11-28-2004
LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking killed nearly 5 million people worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as women to go to an early grave, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Tobacco Control.
LONDON (Reuters) - Children with asthma face quadruple the risk of an attack following stressful events in their lives, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Thorax.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German drugmaker Schering expects a U.S. launch for a low-dose form of its key contraceptive drug Yasmin in the second half of next year, its head said on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - A worldwide "pandemic" of violence against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obesity raises the risk of atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heartbeat that can lead to stroke and early death if not controlled, researchers said on Tuesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has halted a plan to distribute free condoms on university campuses, quashing the AIDS prevention effort only a week before World AIDS Day, state media said Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heart surgery is a frightening prospect for many people, but now imagine undergoing the operation completely awake! That's what seven patients treated at a hospital in Turkey went though -- in a planned, deliberate study.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The abdominal or low back pain that many women experience during their monthly menstrual periods may partly be due to stress, new study findings suggest.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A once-a-month drug for treating multiple sclerosis that appears to cut relapses of the autoimmune disorder was approved on Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Breast-conserving therapy (BCT), which involves limited surgery and radiation, is a suitable option for young women with BRCA-associated breast cancer, the most common hereditary type of the disease, new research suggests. This is because the risk of cancer returning in the same breast after treatment is relatively low.
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