Health & Fitness

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	One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia
Scientists predict the lifespan of people will soon increase to the age of 100, still a lot of them will have to fight terrible ageing diseases
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	5-Year-Old Girl - Youngest in the World with Double Lung Transplant
Doctors had given Mariam Imran five months to live, but the donated organ saved the girl's life with help of the operation that returned her to normal life
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	Chocolate - Really Addictive?
A lot of us would call ourselves chocolate-addicted or chocoholics? But what is the truth behind chocolate-addiction?
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	Doctors Prescribe Antidepressants for Babies
Thousands of antidepressant drugs prescriptions are annually given for children under 10, according to the figures provided by the national drug buying agency Pharmac.
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	Genes Permanently Turned On by Smoking
A study, which was published in BMC Genomics, an on-line open-access journal, was able to explain why those people who used to smoke still have a higher risk for lung cancer development than those who never had the bad habit
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	A Chinese Lived Six Years with a Chip of Glass in His Eye
A Chinese 28-year old was told that he had a 1.4 inch glass splinter in his right eye for the past six years.
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	World's First Center to Treat Nail Biting Habit
The world's first center for treating compulsive nail biters will open in September in Venlo, Netherlands.
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	Sweat-suction surgery to cool your armpits
Suffering from excessive sweating? Now there is an option of undergoing surgery to find a relief.
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	Your Health is fine, Mr. Bush!
President Bush is in excelent shape, says the report of his yearly medical examination.
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	Stressed at Work - Mentally Ill by 32
A new long-term study led the researchers to most alarming conclusions, having proved there is a direct connection between stress factors at work and employees' serious mental disorders by the age of 32
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	Better Bras for Women - Hong-Kong Researchers Say They Did It
Hong-Kong researchers will try to implement new standards for bra sizes, as they claim that the old "A-B-C-D" system is not comfortable enough.
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	8.2% Social Workers Took Drugs Last Month, Study Says
Study says every twelfth American employee took drugs at least once during last month.
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	Cigarette Price Increase Results in Bootlegging Boost
The significantly increased cigarette tax has reinforced smoking and diminished the results of cessation services. It has partially reduced tobacco use but caused a dramatic rise in illegal untaxed cigarettes sales on the streets of low-income minority communities, as showed the study organized by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers.
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	Bird Flu - Back to Europe
Reports of avian influenza in Europe come from Germany too. After serious cases were reported in Czech Republic, medics are bothered about the possible situation, created around the dangerous virus, since in Asia people have already died of the H5N1 type of this virus.
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	Rare Cancer After Collapsing Twin Towers 9/11 Tragedy
The head of Medical Monitoring Program taking the responsibility of post-traumatic treatment of World Trade Center workers who were on September, 11 noticed they had a rare and strange cancer form.
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