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Stories Tagged With Disease

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Vitamin D prevents lots of disease, claims Vitamin D salesman

"Vitamin D appears to reduce your risk of dying from virtually ANY disease," he wrote on his popular Web site. His recommendation? Get more sun, relax in a tanning bed or try supplements such as "Sunshine Mist," a vitamin D spray he sells. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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FUNNY

SAD

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More indoor internet kids are getting rickets from no sunshine

"Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air," said Simon Pearce, a professor at Newcastle University in northeast England and lead author of a new study on Vitamin D deficiency.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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THRIVE

FAIL

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Software to Analyze Cough Sounds for Signs of Sickness

a Bedford, Massachusetts company developing software that can detect the difference between a typical cough and one caused by a cold, flu, COPD, or a number of other respiratory diseases. STAR Analytical Services is working with a database of pre-reco [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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FUNNY

FOUL

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AIDS Vaccine Beat Out By Xbox Natal In "Best Inventions of 2009"

Ending the worldwide AIDS epidemic would be awesome, but have you seen the demos of Microsoft's controller-free gaming system? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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SMART

DUMB

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The Tapeworm Diet

The highlight was Tyra introducing viewers to “The Tapeworm Diet”, which isn’t something you eat, but ingest. That’s right: You eat a parasite so that you can keep on eating tons of food. According to Diet Review, “[The Tapeworm] secretes pr [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WOW!

MEH

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How an Engineer Turned a Cellphone Into a Microscope

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“We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” said Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, who created the devi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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APPROVE

OBJECT

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Administration officially ends HIV travel ban

The Washington Post reports: "President Obama called the 22-year ban on travel and immigration by HIV-positive individuals a decision 'rooted in fear rather than fact' and announced the end of the rule-making process lifting the ban. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WORRY

RELAX

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Dengue Fever Outbreak Far Worse Than Swine Flu

Hundreds of thousands have been infected in South America, and in Australia the outbreak is being called the worst seen in 50 years. While the swine flu scare may be an overreaction in comparison, both outbreaks do highlight a clear link between envir [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WOW!

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Ebola scientist accident spurs rapid 24 hour creation of vaccine

and she appears to be ok... BERLIN (March 27) - It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice. Within hours, members of a tightly bound, yet far-flung communi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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HUGE

MINOR

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Gene Therapy has cured 8 out of 10 kids with bubble boy disease

The eight patients were no longer on medication for the rare disease, which cripples the body's defenses against infection. The successful treatment is reported in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and offers hope for treating ot [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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COOL

BORING

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Chickenpox has virtually disappeared 10 years after vaccine

If you're old enough to remember having chickenpox, you'll find this interesting. "Barely a decade after American children started getting vaccinations for chickenpox, the once-universal disease of childhood has virtually disappeared from many parts  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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