Born into a comfortable background, Genevieve Butler, the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Dunboyne, had the world at her feet, or so it seemed.
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The secret of the perfect breast augmentation surgery will be presented at a conference taking place at London's Royal College of Surgeons this week. Plastic surgeon Patrick Mallucci has come up with a formula for perfection based on research into topless models who have not gone under the knife. He has come up with a list of attributes and a specific ratio to use as a template.
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More than half of British women do not know that the risk of breast cancer increases with age.
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More children have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but is it a result of a new epidemic of mental illness or just a misdiagnosis? Experts weigh in.
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Although the use of Tasers by law enforcement officials has been linked to some highly publicized deaths nationwide, the devices are safe and cause a low occurence of serious injuries, according to a nationwide study.
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A young college student is battling an aggressive form of breast cancer while trying to finish her senior year.
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A woman who left a Broward County hospital in 2001 with her newborn baby in her arms and a foot-long gauze in her abdomen has been awarded $2.4 million in a malpractice suit, according to a published report.
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Seemingly useless organ may provide 'safe harbor' for beneficial bacteria, Duke team theorizes.
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Food labels that list calcium as a percentage of daily intake are confusing for consumers seeking to meet daily requirements, says a new study.
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The Quebec Federation of Milk Producers has refuted news reports of 'seriously problematic' levels of sediment in tanker transport trucks, saying milk is perfectly safe for consumption.
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Northerners should continue to eat traditional food despite the presence of contaminants, researchers told a northern contaminants workshop in Lake Louise, Alta., on Thursday.
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Stockwell Day says the government's new drug strategy will focus on prevention and harm reduction, but he would not commit to keeping Vancouver's supervised injection site open beyond June 2008.
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Patients wanting to get into P.E.I.'s first pain clinic, opened just six months ago, already face a year-long waiting list.
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A sleeping pill appears to have awakened a British woman from a six-year coma, according to several news reports
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A device developed by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could help avoid the dreaded "red wine headache."
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A Colorado woman who made national headlines earlier this year after suffering an 'internal decapitation' in a car accident is moving ahead in her recovery, but has a long road ahead of her.
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A former college football player has sued Iona College over an antibiotic-resistant staph infection he says nearly cost him his leg two years ago.
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Todd Starnes blogs one last time before embarking on the New York City Marathon.
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People over 60 who suffer from high blood pressure receive the least lifestyle advice from their doctors of all age groups, a large-scale study suggests.
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Women who breastfeed and worry the practice will lead to saggy breasts can put their concerns to rest, say U.S. researchers.
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A Florida theme park is apologizing to a St. John's woman who was told to cover up while she breastfed her daughter or leave the premises.
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Using lower levels of oxytocin, a drug given to pregnant women to induce labour, can lead to a safer delivery, a new study suggests.
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An 11-year-old Vietnamese boy brought to Canada with the intention of having a large non-cancerous tumour on his face repaired will be sent home without undergoing surgery.
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Studying a mouse model of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older Americans, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found age is key in determining whether damaging blood vessels will form beneath the retina and contribute to vision loss. [click link for full article]
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Two common classes of blood pressure medications angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are equally effective at controlling high blood pressure, according to a report released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [click link for full article]
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Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) announced positive top-line data from the randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center Phase 2a proof-of-concept trial of MEM 3454, the Company's lead nicotinic alpha-7 receptor partial agonist, in 80 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease over an eight week treatment period. [click link for full article]
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Roche announced final results from the REPEAT study, which demonstrated that treatment with once-weekly PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon alfa-2a) and daily COPEGUS(TM) (ribavirin) for 72 weeks is a promising treatment option for patients whose infection did not respond to previous treatment with another pegylated interferon (Peg- Intron(R), peginterferon alfa-2b) and ribavirin. [click link for full article]
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Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: PGL; Nasdaq: PGLA) announced that in light of the recent Fast Track designation awarded to PI-88 for the prevention of tumour recurrence following curative resection of primary liver cancer and in order to commence the Phase 3 program as rapidly as possible, the Company will no longer continue with the Special Protocol Assessment process. [click link for full article]
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The world's leading cosmetic surgeons claim thousands of people face permanent damage from new facial "filler" injections. They warn the risks faced by people having such treatments in the UK have also increased because of government failure to regulate "cowboys".
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Record numbers of children are in treatment for alcohol abuse. Britain's drinking culture, combined with the sheer availability and affordability of alcohol, is taking a heavy toll of those most vulnerable to its effects.
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The police should no longer be forced to care for the mentally ill, one of Britain's leading officers said yesterday. Commander Rod Jarman, who chairs the Association of Chief Police Officers' mental health group, told The Independent on Sunday that the police were increasingly being left "holding the baby" when it came to looking after mentally ill people ? something they are not trained to do ? because health and ambulance services treated the issue as low priority.
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An investigation has been launched into the heart transplant programme at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge after it reported a sharp increase in the number of patient deaths.
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Everyone tires, sooner or later, of being told what to do, especially when the advice is confusing, conflicting or plain contradictory. Nowhere is that more evident than in the area of diet.
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In the past, one of the worst things about getting drunk and acting like a fool was the hangover that followed the next morning. But, with social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace, the humiliation has been taken to a whole new level.
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A wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park likely died from the plague through his exposure to wild animals that can carry the disease.
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