German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG has challenged a ground-breaking Indian ruling that allowed a local firm to produce a vastly cheaper copy of its patented drug for kidney and liver cancer.
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Bayer challenges India cancer drug ruling
From http://news.yahoo.comArgentine 'miracle baby' stable a month on
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An Argentine baby who was mistakenly declared dead and whose parents found her breathing in the morgue 12 hours later has survived her first month of life, weighing in at just under 2.2 pounds.
Salmonella in dog food sickens 14 people in US
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Fourteen people in at least nine states have been sickened by salmonella after handling tainted dog food from a South Carolina plant that a few years ago produced food contaminated by toxic mold that killed dozens of dogs, federal officials said Friday.
NYT: When illness makes a spouse a stranger
From MSNBC.com
Michael French, 71, has frontotemporal dementia, a little-known, poorly understood and frequently misdiagnosed group of brain diseases that eat away at personality and language. His wife, Ruth, has had to cope with losing her spouse while he's still alive.
Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk
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Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role.
Why thoughts of death may be good for you
From MSNBC.com
By Wynne ParryLiveScienceReminders of death can improve life, according to a review of research on how people respond to both the conscious and unconscious awareness of their own mortality.
Breast cancer is rare in men, but they fare worse
From http://news.yahoo.com
Men rarely get breast cancer, but those who do often don't survive as long as women, largely because they don't even realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs, researchers say.
Prolonged sitting may raise women's diabetes risk
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A woman's likelihood of having risk factors for diabetes, such as insulin resistance and chronic inflammation, increased with the more time she spent sitting, according to a new study.
