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8 New Inspiring Developments in the Fight Against Breast Cancer (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Breast Cancer Screenings, Personal Health, Breast Health, Breastfeeding, Bslide-Yoplait, Pregnancy, Breast Cancer, Cure, Breast Cancer Vaccine, Parenting, Breast Cancer Awareness, Breast Cancer Research, Health, Yoplait, Cancer, Breast Cancer Prevention, Breastmilk, Medical Breakthroughs, Breast Cancer Treatment, Healthy Living News

In the fight against any disease, there's always plenty of bad news to go around. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year, however, we hav...

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Paraplegic Man Stands After Breakthrough Treatment (VIDEO)

Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Spinal Implants, Video, Rob Summers, Portland, Medical Breakthroughs, Paralysis, Paralyzed Man Stands, Healthy Living News

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Health Story Of The Decade: Submit Your Nominations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Breakthroughs, Health News of the Decade, Health, Biggest Health Stories, Health Story of the Decade, Slidepollajax, Big News, Biggest Stories of 2010, Story of the Decade, Health Story of the Year, Home News

The past decade (2001- 2010) has been defined by health news stories that have jolted us, for better or worse, into the 21st century. From the complet...

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Spanish hospital Claims 1st Full-Face Transplant

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Medical Breakthroughs, Reconstructive Surgery, Face Surgery, Face Transplant, Health, Spain Face Transplant, Healthy Living News

MADRID — A team of surgeons has carried out the world's first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own...

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Cures or Quackery?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Breakthroughs, Paz, Medical Miracles, Samuel Mann, Lipid in Health and Disease, Health Enhancement Products, Medicine, Proalgazyme, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Stories of companies with major medical breakthroughs are a dime a dozen, the overwhelming majority of which are strictly hot air -- a clear danger for impressionable investors.

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Strengthening Ties Between Research And Clinical Communities

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Harrison Ford, Mental Health, Medical Research, Medical-Breakthroughs, John Crowley, Brendan Fraser, Extraordinary Measures, Psychiatric Research, Child Mental Health, New York, Scientists, Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

I feel so strongly about the need for stronger ties between the research and clinical communities that my new organization, The Child Study Center Foundation, has made these partnerships its central mission.

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Extraordinary Measures Is an Extraordinary Film

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harrison Ford, Foundations, Medical Breakthroughs, Research, Pome's Disease, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Extraordinary Measures is one of those feel good movies that make you appreciate what a few good people can accomplish. The fact it's based on a true story means you don't have to scof at the unreality of it all.

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