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19.05 21:21 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A popular type of face lift produces only short-lived improvement in appearance, and should no longer be used given its risks, poor results and discomfort for patients, conclude the authors of a long-term study of patients who underwent the procedure.

19.05 21:20 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some studies have found that patients with certain cancers seem to survive longer when they're diagnosed during summer and autumn months, but it now appears that this may be largely due to higher death rates in general during winter months, report UK researchers from King's College London.

19.05 19:21 GENEVA (Reuters) - There is no excuse for the fact that pregnancy and childbirth continue to kill 529,000 women and leave 1 million children motherless worldwide every year, the wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday.

19.05 02:05 LONDON (Reuters) - Instead of using a blood test to determine whether a man has prostate cancer, doctors might one day more accurately diagnose the condition using a new technique that measures a different compound, researchers said.

19.05 01:14 GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu virus is likely to keep spreading rapidly between people, within countries and across the globe, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday.

19.05 00:06 CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental asthma treatment that uses heat to reduce airway constriction provided some relief from severe asthma that is poorly controlled with medications, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

18.05 23:33 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women may be especially susceptible to the toxic effects of cigarette smoking, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

18.05 23:25 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Results of a study suggest that bipolar disorder has a high relapse rate. In the study, researchers found evidence that three fourths of the hospitalizations for treatment of bipolar disorder are repeat admissions.

18.05 23:24 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with chest pain are less likely than their male counterparts to receive aspirin and other recommended therapies by emergency medical service (EMS) personnel, according to study findings presented Friday at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual conference in New Orleans.

18.05 23:23 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In cancer patients accidentally overexposed with the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), the drug vistonuridine (Wellstat Therapeutics Corp) may be lifesaving, according to research to be reported June 1 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Orlando.

18.05 23:22 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Facial injuries sustained in car accidents are becoming less and less common, probably thanks to improvements in automobile design, an analysis of national motor vehicle crash data indicates.

18.05 23:00 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Despite having insurance, many poor women with breast cancer do not take hormone pills needed to keep their cancer in check, raising their risks that the cancer will return, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

18.05 19:57 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many people who suffer from sleep apnea continue to suffer excessive daytime sleepiness despite standard treatment with continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP.

18.05 19:53 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Up to one in six older adults living on their own may not be getting adequate nutrition, a study from Sweden suggests.

18.05 18:53 GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu virus is likely to keep spreading rapidly between people, within countries and across the globe, the head of the World Health Organisation said on Monday.

18.05 16:56 GENEVA (Reuters) - Several countries called for the World Health Organization on Monday to have more flexibility in interpreting its pandemic alert scale, especially when deciding whether to declare a full pandemic.