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Apr 19 2007
Women who take hormone replacement therapy are at a greater risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer according to scientists. The death toll estimate emerged from the biggest investigation of links between HRT and cancer ever...
Apr 19 2007
The Virginia Tech University student who shot 32 people to death on campus this week mailed a package of images and video messages to NBC News during his rampage. After killing two students in a dorm on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus on April 16,...
Apr 19 2007
Iraqi police said it has uncovered 17 decomposing corpses buried beneath two schoolyards in Ramadi. At least 85 people killed or found dead across the country Tuesday. The adult bodies were discovered in the Anbar provincial capital after students and...
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Apr 18 2007
Researchers now claim that dosing children with antidepressants are in fact, not dangerous. These studies had in fact resulted in the FDA ordered ‘black box’ warnings put on the antidepressants. Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh...
Apr 18 2007
Itcho Ito, mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, died today after being shot twice by a member of an organized crime gang. The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned and only five politicians are known to have been killed since World...
Apr 17 2007
A smoking ban in bars imposed three years ago in Ireland has helped to improve the health of bar workers immensely, a new study has just revealed. The research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine showed that...
Apr 17 2007
Two Swedish men who had been convicted of espionage and imprisoned in Iran for taking photographs of military installations were released Monday after being pardoned, a Swedish lawmaker in Tehran said. The men were handed over to Swedish officials at...
Apr 17 2007
Thirty-three people died yesterday in a massacre at Virginia Tech University campus in the bloodiest school shooting in the country’s history. The massacre took place in two locations - a dormitory where two people were killed and two hours later...
Apr 16 2007
A new genetic link has been discovered for Crohn’s disease, a painful inflammatory disorder that causes the intestine to swell and bleed easily. Scientists have identified seven genes or areas associated with an increased risk of contracting...
Apr 16 2007
The brain and not the heart is responsible for high blood pressure, according to new research. Scientists from Bristol University suggested the brain plays an important factor in causing hypertension. They claim that a protein found in the...