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• Inhalant Abuse a Deadly Middle-School Concern

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• Heat Therapy Helps Treat U.S. Soldiers' Infections

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• Long-Term Use of Osteoporosis Drugs Linked to Fractures

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• Body's Response to Foods' Smell, Taste Could Be Diabetes Risk Factor

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• Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome

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• Driving With Early Alzheimer's May Be Ill-Advised

  FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people with failing memories often keep driving, but ...

• U.S. Chalks Up Victories in War on Cancer

  THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- The decrease in cancer deaths in the United States ...

• Scientists Find Stem Cells in Hair That Can Become Skin

  THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found a type of stem cell tucked ...

• Seaweed May Help Treat Lymphoma

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• Scientists Find Key to Hormone-Resistant Prostate Tumors

  WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- Though hormone therapy has proven useful in treating late-stage ...

• Gene Mutations Identified for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome

  WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- By analyzing the genome of a colleague who has ...

• Panel Finds Many Women Can Avoid Repeat C-Sections

  WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- Most women who have had a Cesarean delivery can ...

• Doctors Turning to Cardiac Catheterization Too Quickly

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