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DNR Tests Water In Town Hit With Brain Tumors

Test results from the Department of Natural Resources show nothing abnormal in Cameron's drinking water. More than 12 brain tumors have been reported in Cameron in recent months. The cluster has prompted the state to take water, air and soil samples.

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Bacteria Thrive in Inner Elbow; No Harm Done

The crook of your elbow is not just a plain patch of skin. It is a piece of highly coveted real estate, a special ecosystem, a bountiful home to no fewer than six tribes of bacteria. Even after you have washed the skin clean, there are still one million bacteria in every square centimeter.

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Closing In On New Melanoma Gene

It has long been known that prolonged exposure to the suns harmful UV rays can lead to Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. An unanswered question, however, is why some people are more likely to develop melanoma than others. Despite years of research and clinical development, melanoma incidences continue to rise around the world. According to the National Cancer Institute, the percentage of people in the United States who develop melanoma each year has more than doubled in the past 30 years.

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US launches clinic to delve into mysterious diseases

The US National Institutes of Health has launched a new clinical research program that will try to unlock the mysteries behind diseases that baffle the medical community.

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The NIH judges a disease to be rare if there are fewer than 200,000 affected individuals in the United States

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Big Risk for Nanotechnology as Some Carbon Nanotubes May Cause Asbestos Related Diseases

A major study published today in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes -- a poster child for the "nanotechnology revolution" -- could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities.

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Bosnians threatened by cattle disease, expert warns

Sarajevo -- An alarming rise in cases of Bosnians infected with the rare animal disease brucellosis requires urgent action to prevent it from spreading, an epidemiologist warned Thursday.

"The number of people who were registered with the infection this year is 395. The situation is very, very serious," Zlatko Puvacic, the chief epidemiologist of the Muslim-Croat half of Bosnia, told AFP.

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Flashback Childhood brain cancer and Cell Phones

Dr Charlie Teo - a pre-eminent neurosurgeon is at the cutting edge - literally - of a 21 per cent increase in children's brain tumours. He's curious about the effect mobile phones and Electro Magnetic Radiation [EMR] may be having on these statistics, and has issued a warning to parents to be aware...

So cautious is Dr Teo, the subject of his 12-year-old daughter having a mobile phone in their family, he confesses, is a sore point. "The argument for her having a mobile phone was there are some benefits of it and that is in emergency situations, but she has promised me - she is a very sensible girl - she will use a loudspeaker facility all the time," he says.

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Flashback Brain cancer fears over heavy mobile phone use

A top Australian neurosurgeon says the world's heavy reliance on mobile phones could be a greater threat to human health than smoking and even asbestos.

Vini Khurana, who conducted a 15-month "critical review" of the link between mobile phones and malignant brain tumours, said using mobiles for more than 10 years could more than double the risk of brain cancer.

He has called for "immediate and decisive steps" by industry and governments to reduce people's exposure to invisible electromagnetic radiation emitted by handsets.

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Sex Abuse in the Name of Religion Isn't a Lifestyle -- It's Sex Abuse

BOSTON -- During the Vietnam War there was a phrase that came to symbolize the entire misbegotten adventure: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." It was said at first with sincerity, then repeated with irony, and finally with despair.

I have heard similar thoughts in the weeks since Texas authorities invaded a ranch in Eldorado and rounded up hundreds of children from the polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Did they traumatize the children in order to protect them? Did they shatter their lives to rescue them?

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Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life? Too Bad It's Illegal

Scientific studies indicate that marijuana can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells, including the type that Kennedy suffers from.