Young people may respond better to upbeat health messages

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Critical care doctors at a major teaching hospital believe they provided futile treatment to about one in five intensive care unit patients, needlessly prolonging their lives. … They were then shown the actual statistics for such events. … "The …
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New coalition targets key health issues in community

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Coalition members have already worked to discourage adolescent substance abuse by sending parents letters on the consequences of sharing drugs and alcohol with minors as last school year winded down. The documents came … “We know prevention is …
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New breast cancer drug approved in Saudi Arabia

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The drug halts cancer cells from multiplying and is expected to treat 53 percent of cancer patients in the Kingdom. Abdulaziz bin Ali Al-Turki, president of the Saudi Oncology Society, said that statistics available with the National Oncology Register …
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Author: As much as 2 percent of Russia's potential population aborted every year

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“Equally grim statistics can be found in the state of national health, in its alcoholism and drug addiction rates, and in its failing struggle to contain HIV/AIDS,” he continued. “It's no wonder that one in five Russians now wants to live abroad — and …
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