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Forbes - (HealthDay News) - Seizures are triggered by abnormal electrical signals in the brain. People may have seizures because of an injury, a disease or condition, or less often, due to substance or alcohol abuse. People who have seizures may keep in mind ...

Boston Globe - Healthcare has been based historically on knowledge of a disease. [People are] not trained how to function as teams, so we wind up with these persistent problems." The causes of errors in the Massachusetts cases vary widely, including surgeons ...

Detroit News - Sources familiar with closed-door negotiations reported advances Thursday, but no final deal on the outstanding sticking points, including privatizing foster care, slicing money from disease prevention programs and raising hunting and fishing license ...

Newsday - Bruce Hirsch, an infectious disease physician at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, said fatalities from MRSA infections are unusual. "The worst cases of MRSA can be very, very bad," Hirsch said. "They are rare compared to other types of ...

Forbes - NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. Friday said it would receive up to $9.9 million from CHDI Inc. to develop a drug treatment for Huntington's Disease. CHDI, a nonprofit foundation pursuing treament for Huntington's, will ...

Forbes - CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISIS) announced today that CHDI, Inc. (CHDI), a non-profit foundation pursuing treatments for Huntington's Disease (HD), will provide up to $9.9 million in ...

Forbes - OSLO (Thomson Financial) - Fish producer Grieg Seafood ASA said it expected an up to 6.6 pct reduction in its harvest in 2008 due to a fish disease. 'The overall effect on our harvesting plans for 2008 is not finally established,' Grieg said in a ...

Hindustan Times - At least three people, including two women, have died of a mysterious illness in a remote village of Chhattisgarh's northern forested region, health officials said on Friday. Two women and a man, all in their early 40s, died on Wednesday after ...

MSN UK News - An Indonesian woman has died of bird flu after handling dead chickens, bringing the national death toll from the disease to 90, the Health Ministry said Monday. The latest victim was a 30-year-old woman who died in an east Jakarta hospital Saturday ...

Bloomberg - The number of deaths from heart disease prevented by prasugrel was offset by a similar number of patients who experienced fatal bleeding, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. Doctors ...