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Bloomberg - Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- A gene variant that raises the risk of heart disease 55 percent can be identified with a new test that may help doctors determine who should take cholesterol- lowering drugs such as Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor, scientists said. A ...

Newsday - GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) _ A group of Connecticut residents is lobbying state health officials to kill deer to reduce Lyme disease Georgina Scholl, vice chairwoman of the Connecticut Coalition to Eradicate Lyme Disease, says the abundance of deer is a ...

Detroit News - U.S. officials this spring were unable to catch a Mexican man infected with the disease because the doctor treating the man did not know his real name, according to an official who was briefed on the incident but requested anonymity because the ...

Newsday - The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta estimated in 2002 that about 1.2 million women in the United States had a fertility-related medical appointment during the previous year. And CDC statistics show the number of live ...

Detroit Free Press - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that an estimated 19,000 people nationwide died from staph infections in 2005, Miller said. The report itself, Miller said, "hyped the panic, if you will." Doctors aren't required to report each case ...

Baltimore Sun - An estimated 178,480 women will receive breast cancer diagnoses this year, according to the American Cancer Society, and about 40,460 will die of the disease. Dr. Todd M. Tuttle of the University of Minnesota Medical School and his colleagues ...

Sky.com - The Department of Health is urging pregnant or breastfeeding women to take vitamin D supplements to prevent their children suffering rickets. Although no exact data is available, health workers are seeing more children than ever with a vitamin D ...

Reuters - Worldwide there are more than an estimated 190,000 new cases of ovarian cancer each year, a disease more common after age 50. Women often have mild or no symptoms until the disease has progressed. Previous studies have linked caffeine consumption with ...

News.com.au - As two-thirds of the state faced various levels of flooding, senior medical officer of Queensland Health's communicable disease branch Dr Frank Beard issued a warning about precautions to avoid outbreaks of diseases. These included dengue fever and ...

Forbes - AMAC's product and service portfolio includes Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) and emergency response monitoring, electronic medication reminder devices, disease management monitoring appliances and healthcare communication solutions ...