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Breast cancer message goes global
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/10/breast.cancer.awareness/index.html
Tragedies and heartbreaking stories is what it takes to realize how breast cancer can affect people. The rise of breast cancer is growing rapidly around the world. Awareness’s are trying to reach out to people and create support projects.
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Comatose woman in euthanasia debate dies
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/09/italy.euthanasia/index.html?iref=nextin
A 37-year-old woman died after being in a coma for 17years. After a tragic car wreck when she was twenty Elunana Englaro, was forced in a coma. After 17 years they removed the feeding tube and just 3 days later she passed away. "I will do everything I can to save her life," Berlusconi said. "We have to do everything possible to stop a person from dying."
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Could smoking pot raise testicular cancer risk?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/09/health.pot.cancer/index.html?iref=nextin
Studies recently show that smoking pot can raise the risk of testicular cancer. They compared people who had been diagnosed to those who had not been and 26% of the testicular cancer patients had been pot smokers. There has been an increase in testicular cancers in the last half of the 20th century, and marijuana use has increased in the same time period.
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Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html
HIV patient with leukemia shows to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS. "The patient is fine," said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. "Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication." The transplant however is very dangerous.
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