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Apr 26 2007
A judge has sentenced a man to 2 years in prison for concealing that he was HIV-positive when he gave blood to a Hammond plasma center. Michael Ivy, 46, of East Chicago pleaded guilty to selling blood contaminated with HIV in September last year to...
Apr 26 2007
Men who suffer migraine headaches have a higher risk of heart disease, particularly heart attacks, according to a study. Dr. Tobias Kurth, of the Harvard University Medical School, studied 20,084 men ages 40 to 84 without a previous history of heart...
Apr 25 2007
A study by Harvard Medical School researchers says that breast-feeding does not make a difference when it comes to obesity levels later in life. Health agencies including the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of...
Apr 25 2007
The retired judge overseeing the long-delayed inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her friend Dodi Fayed stepped down Tuesday. Judge Butler-Sloss said she lacked the experience required to deal with an inquest with a jury. Lord...
Apr 24 2007
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who chronicled the Vietnam War generation, civil rights and the world of sports, was killed in a car crash Monday, authorities said. He was 73. The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m., and Halberstam...
Apr 24 2007
Some prisoners executed by lethal injection in the US may die of suffocation while still conscious and in pain, researchers said. Drugs used to execute prisoners in the U.S. sometimes fail to work, causing slow and painful deaths that probably violate...
Apr 24 2007
There is no association between abortion and an increased risk for breast cancer, according to a Harvard study in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine. “In this cohort study of young women, we found no association between induced...
Apr 24 2007
Women who are alcohol-dependent develop serious and potentially irreversible brain damage more quickly than men. That’s according to a new study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. In the newly reported study, which...
Apr 23 2007
An earthquake triggered deadly 25-foot waves this weekend in remote southern Chile, which swept away 10 beachgoers. Three bodies were recovered. Chile’s government disaster centre Onemi said the three found dead by rescuers were a couple and...
Apr 23 2007
U.S. experts have reported that a rabies vaccine that saved the life of a teenager in 2004, has not worked in two children infected with the deadly disease. A 10 tear old Indiana girl and an 11 year old boy from California both died from rabies,...