A Mother's Report Card: The Best - and Worst - Countries for Mothers

Sweden Tops List, Niger Ranks Last, United States Ranks 27th for Second Year in a Row Westport, Conn. (Vocus) May 5, 2009 -- Nordic countries lead the globe as the best places to be a mother, while sub-Saharan African countries rank among the worst places for mothers, a...

Psychiatrist Dr. Richard Esser: How to Find the Best of Life in the Worst of Times

NEW YORK, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Even as people struggle to cope with economic uncertainty and increasingly higher levels of stress, it's still possible to live a joyful, vital "best" life in these hard times. For more than fifty years, Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. Richard Esser has ...

What Is It Like to Survive a Plane Crash? A Survivor of One of the Worst Small Plane Crashes Tells Her Story

NAPLES, Fla., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunday's crash of a single-engine turboprop plane in Montana killed 14 people -- half of them children. With a number of plane crashes in recent months, including the February 12th crash of a Continental Airlines commuter plane that killed 50 and January's "M...

CLEAN & CLEAR(R) Is Inviting Teens to 'Erase Their Worst Yearbook Picture' With The NEW CLEAN & CLEAR(R) Advantage(R) Blackhead Eraser(TM) Exfoliating Cleanser

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America's Worst Restaurants for Kids Revealed

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Current Flu Season Worst in 4 Years

Vaccine wasn't a good match for circulating viruses, CDC says THURSDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- The current U.S. flu season has been the worst in four years, due, in part, to a vaccine that was not a good match for certain circulating strains of flu virus, U.S. health officials sa...

The best of times and the worst of times: Sustaining the future of academic GI

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Philly International Airport Tops 'AXE's Best and Worst Airports to Make a Connection'

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Gene profiling can single out the worst cases of multiple myeloma and guide therapy

ATLANTA Multiple myeloma patients vary widely in how they respond to treatment, but now researchers at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have identified a small subset of genes whose activity could predict high-risk cases and potenti...

Allergists at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Say This Year's Fall Allergy Season Could be Worst in Decades

DALLAS, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you're one of the millions of Texans who suffers through the misery of fall allergies, hold on to your handkerchief: Allergy researchers at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas say the upcoming ragweed season could be the worst in decades. "The unusua...

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Inspiration for 'My Sister's Keeper' Speaks Out

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One Call Now Offers Notification Service at NO CHARGE for Governments, Schools, Businesses, Religious Organizations and Others in Response to Swine Flu Outbreak

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Oh, My Aching Back: Give Me a Shot of Ozone

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Cymbalta(R) Significantly Reduced Osteoarthritis Knee Pain in New Study

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ISTA Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Results for Phase IIb Study of Ecabet Sodium

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Transdel Enrolls First Patient for Ketotransdel(TM) Phase 3 Clinical Trial

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Cerimon Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Results from a Phase II Clinical Study of Its Diclofenac Sodium Patch for Acute Pain

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NIH Funds New Wellstone Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy at Boston Biomedical Research Institute

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Tailored Clopidogrel Dosing Improves PCI Outcomes

...using platelet monitoring seems to be the best way to decrease the rate of major adverse cardiac events, in particular, stent thrombosis, which is the worst complication after PCI," said Laurent Bonello, MD, a cardiologist at Hopital Universitaire Nord, and Universite de la Mediterranee, both in Marseille,...

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... among soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, just back from fighting in Europe. Called the "Spanish influenza," the virus moved quickly, and in October, the worst month, 195,000 Americans perished. By 1920, nearly one-in-four Americans had suffered from this strain of the flu, killing a half million of them. Wor...

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Global Aviation Summit Explores Low-Carbon Flight

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The MedZilla Report: Febraury 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

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