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Two novel melanoma drugs have produced unprecedented gains in survival in separate studies of people with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, doctors have reported. Advanced melanoma patients taking an experimental pill, vemurafenib, developed by Roche and Daiichi Sankyo…
The enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) virus, which can cause the deadly haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS), is spreading in Europe. More than 1,500 people in nine nations have been infected with deaths of 17 people reported. EHEC is a deadly strain of E….
Scientists are concerned about the spread of a “super-toxic” strain of E. coli bacteria in Europe. Via Yahoo News: But while suspicion has fallen on raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce as the source of the germ, researchers have been unable…
Department of Health, DOH, Assistant Secretary Dr. Eric Tayag told the Philippine media that there is a strong likelihood that the number of Filipinos with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will reach 45,000 by 2015. As of April 2011, a…
Is it called H2N2? A mystery virus has been detected in South Korea, affecting pregnant or recently pregnant women. It has so far killed 2 women, Xinhua reports. At least eight people in all are said to be affected by…
Bath Salts are not the ones you use for baths — no, not those water-soluble, solid products designed to be added to your bath. Bath Salts are drugs that can easily be bought, taken and abused. The drugs have chemicals…
Centers for Control Disease offer this Zombie Apocalypse advice for everyone. More of the CDC report here. Video:
From HIV-positive man to an HIV-negative man. Timothy Ray Brown, the man cured of HIV, is the limelight again after his CBS interview and saying that he has been cured of HIV through a stem cell transplant in 2007. AOL…
Selected elite Navy SEAL members made it possible to storm Osama bin Laden’s hideout and kill him. The SEALs group is known as Team Six. The Navy SEALs (which stands for Sea, Air, and Land) have their “origins in World…
Rev. Father Phil Henning of Sacred Heart Catholic Church thought that 8-year-old Kevin Castro of Floresville, Texas was not worthy of having a First Communion because the boy thinks like a 6-month-old baby due to his cerebral palsy. I’m sorry,…