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Pharmacy linked to meningitis shipped drugs before sterility results Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:23 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - At least 13 times, the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak shipped orders of injectable steroid before it obtained results from sterility testing, Massachusetts health officials announced on Tuesday. Twenty-three people have died and more than 300 have become ill with fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots from the New England Compounding ... Green tea drinkers show lower cancer risks Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:58 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who regularly drink green tea may have slightly lower risks of colon, stomach and throat cancers than women who make no time for tea, a large study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 69,000 Chinese women followed for a decade, those who drank green tea at least three times a week were 14 percent less likely to develop a cancer of the digestive ... Medicine rarely a slam dunk, despite splashy studies Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:31 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Next time a research finding leaves you slack-jawed, thinking it's too good to be true, you might just be right, according to a massive new analysis tracking the fate of splashy medical studies. It turns out that 90 percent of the "very large" effects described in initial reports on medical treatments begin to shrink or vanish as more studies are done. "If taken ... Serious birth complications rising in the U.S Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Severe complications from childbirth are rare in the U.S., but they are becoming more common, a new government study finds. Between 1998 and 2009, the rate of serious complications like heart attack, stroke, severe bleeding and kidney failure during or after childbirth roughly doubled among U.S. women, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and ... 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' earmarked for US politicians AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:53 AM PDT Women's health advocates set out their plan Monday to put a copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in the office of every lawmaker on Capitol Hill, 41 years after the guide to the female body was published.

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