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THE Philippine government urged China on Saturday to ask Chinese media to exercise restraint on their reporting to ease tension over the Panatag or Scarborough Shoal off West Philippine Sea. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda made the statement …
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| Exercising helps in lessening the pain related to nerve damage by reducing levels of certain inflammation-promoting factors, a new study suggests. The results support exercise as a potentially useful nondrug treatment for neuropathic pain, … See all stories on this topic » |
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Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An experimental Bristol-Myers Squibb drug helped shrink tumors in patients with advanced melanoma, kidney and lung cancers in a preliminary trial, raising hopes for yet another drug that can wake up the immune system and train it to attack cancer cells. Early-stage tests of the drug BMS-936558, known as an anti-PD-1 treatment, showed it was relatively safe and shrank tumors in three of the five cancer types studied, the team reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting on Saturday and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track their stock of drugs in short supply – a task that takes several hours each day. Most of the hospital's medicines – with usage estimated at $100 million a year – are tracked by automated systems that allow for quick reorders when the supply runs low. But these automated systems, designed to help the hospital avoid purchases and storage costs of unused pills and vials, do not work if it is uncertain when the next batch of drugs will come in. …
PTI terms budget futile exercise LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf spokesperson Asad Omar has termed the annual budget a meaningless exercise. The government presents a budget every year, but the financial year ends with no semblance to the original …
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A UC Davis research team is seeking participants for a study that will help determine if a personalized or standard exercise plan works better for improving exercise capacity. "Exercise has well-known benefits, but it's not clear that a …
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In 2002, when he won his first term as Milwaukee County executive as a recall candidate himself, he said the recall of the former official was an exercise in democracy. He applauded the effort of citizens who stood together to take their government …
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An experimental cancer drug successfully shrank tumors in patients with different kinds of cancer, including typically hard-to-treat lung cancers, according to a new study. Oncologists called the research encouraging, but more study is needed to know whether the drug will prolong life for cancer patients.
