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26 min ago | Philly.com

J&J forecasts 10 new drug applications by 2017

Johnson & Johnson says it plans to submit more than 10 new treatments to regulators for approval and 25 applications for additional uses of approved drugs by 2017.

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Related Topix: Food, J and J Snack Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Johnson and Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, DePuy Orthopaedics, Medical Equipment, Hospital Administration, St Peters Health Care Services

1 hr ago | WKYC-TV

Would you rather lose $1,000 or gain 20 pounds?

More than half of Americans say they'd rather lose $1,000 than gain 20 pounds, a new survey shows.

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Related Topix: Life, Nutrition, Food

1 hr ago | Oxford Mail

Hospitals chief apologises for rising A&E waiting times

Dr James Price, left, clinical director of emergency medicine, and Dr Stephen Richards, chief operating officer of the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, at the John Radcliffe Hospital's A&E department THE man in charge of the John Radcliffe Hospital 's accident and emergency department has apologised for long waiting times and promised they ... (more)

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Related Topix: Emergency Medicine

1 hr ago | Rock FM

Bad Hairball Day! Tiger Needs Stomach Surgery

Veterinary surgeons in Tampa Bay were called in after Ty the tiger failed to hack up the monster obstruction all by himself.

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Related Topix: Surgery

3 hrs ago | KFMB-TV San Diego

UC hospitals face second day of worker walkout

Workers at University of California hospitals around the state are picketing for a second day over staffing and pension issues.

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Related Topix: Nursing

5 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug

Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.

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Related Topix: Vaccinations, Health, Pfizer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Merck , MRSA, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals

Wed May 22, 2013

JAM! Showbiz

Jolie's aunt has breast cancer

Actress Angelina Jolie poses for a photograph as she arrives for the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in central London April 11, 2013.

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Related Topix: Salt, Health, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer

The Winnipeg Free Press

'Candelabra,' starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon,...

Liberace, forever hailed as Mr. Showmanship, was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and offstage extravagance were legendary and who wowed audiences in Las Vegas and worldwide to become the best-paid entertainer on the planet during his heyday from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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Related Topix: The Informant!, Drama Movies, Celebrities, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Plastic Surgery

ChannelOne

Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.

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Related Topix: Ohio

Philly.com

Glaxo, US partnering to develop new antibiotics

GlaxoSmithKline PLC says it's starting an unusual collaboration with the U.S. government to develop several antibiotics for both bioterrorism threats and bacterial infections resistant to current medicines.

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Related Topix: GlaxoSmithKline, Biotech, Healthcare Industry

Reuters

Merck signs $5 billion share buyback agreement with Goldman Sachs

Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Merck , Healthcare Industry, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Investment Services

Bromsgrove Advertiser

Doctors "cannot guarantee" patient safety at A&E

DOCTORS have issued a chilling warning that patient safety can no longer be guaranteed at Worcestershire's A&E departments.

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Sunherald.com

Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate falls

Back in 1913 when it was formed, cancer was a lesser threat for most Americans. The biggest killers then were flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and stomach bugs.

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Related Topix: Infectious Diseases, Cervical Cancer

Tue May 21, 2013

Reuters

Amag says anemia drug caused fatal reaction in Switzerland

Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc said its marketing partner in Switzerland, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is recalling a batch of Amag's anemia drug, Rienso, because of a death and several cases of hypersensitivity.

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Related Topix: Anemia, Health, Marketing, Lexington, MA

USA Today

Conn. Sen. Murphy takes food stamp challenge

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is learning to eat lean and mean this week. The freshman lawmaker is taking the 'SNAP' challenge, living off the equivalent of what Connecticut families receive in food stamps.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Life, Food, Nutrition, Weather

KFVS12

Genes may boost woman's risk of postpartum depression

Pregnant women with specific alterations in two genes may be at increased risk of suffering depression after giving birth, a small new study suggests.

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Related Topix: Johns Hopkins University, Obstetrics and Gynecology, New Haven, CT

KMIZ

Where have Europe's nurses gone?

At the top of a flight of stairs with no elevator in sight, registered nurse Katarzyna Kaseja leans over the rickety metal bars of a crib.

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Related Topix: Nursing, World News, Poland, Long Term Care, Health

Canada.com

Dramatic growth in antipsychotic drug use even targets infants, experts say

Dr. Dina Panagiotopoulos, a pediatric endocrinologist at BC Children's Hospital, says "second-generation" antipsychotics are being prescribed to two- and three-year-olds for aggression.

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Related Topix: Endocrinology, Psychiatry

Connecticut Post

Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Acupuncturist Claire McManus watches a pair of sea turtles, who are recovering from a stranding, swim at the New England Aquarium's animal car center in Quincy, Mass., Monday May 20, 2013.

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Related Topix: Health, Acupuncture, Quincy, MA, Weather

WTVF Nashville

Pediatrician Says DCS Challenges Medical Opinions

A Spring Hill pediatrician said she has some sympathy as the Tennessee Department of Children's Services tries to sort through claims about children's welfare.

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Related Topix: Pediatrics, Spring Hill, TN, Opinion