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Brand Names Slip into Cartoons, Video Games

Advertisers pay to 'immerse' their product names in children's TV, gaming

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Medical Panel Recommends Boys Get Controversial Vaccine

Vaccine would protect them from the human papilloma viruses

Monitor displaying a brain examination in a magnet resonance tomograph (MRT) at the new Neuroimaging Center for cognitive-affective neuroscience in Dresden.

Study: Vitamin B12 Deficits in Older Adults Linked to Brain Decline

Health experts say regular screening and heightened public awareness.can help avoid potentially brain-wasting deficits

Steroids impact the brains of infants who receive them shortly after birth.

Steroids Affect Brain Development in Premature Babies

Smaller cerebellum seen in preemies who receive glucocorticoids

Excessive alcohol consumption costs Americans $224 billion a year, according to a new study.

Study Calculates High Cost of Heavy Drinking

Alcohol consumption costs Americans $224 billion a year

We can't all be medical students, but ordinary people can gain a deeper understanding of the human body at the University of Colorado's Mini Med School.

Mini Med School Draws the Curious

Free classes won't make you a doctor, but will make you more knowledgeable

According to a study of 170,000 women who had mammograms,  a majority of women who get annual screenings have false-positive results.

Study Supports Breast Cancer Screening Every Two Years

More false positives with annual mammograms

A Somali mother brings her child for vaccination for measles at a Medecines Sans Frontieres, Holland clinic hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia (File Photo).

Doctors Without Borders Suspends Somali Measles Vaccination

Vaccination campaign was supposed reach 35,000 children, but only 4,831 vaccinated before fighting forced health workers to withdraw

Women at Greater Risk of Heart Disease

Heart disease is number one killer in the world, it is mostly preventable

Local residents sit outside of the town's hospital in the town of Thebes, about 88 kilometers northwest of Athens, June 2011. (file photo)

Greek Doctors Warn of ‘Health Catastrophe’

Health experts say financial crisis is bringing about an impending health disaster that will devastate nation

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Malaria Vaccine Shows Acceptable Safety, Efficacy Results

Researchers say new RTS,S vaccine provided significant protection against both clinical and severe malaria for one year

Iren Salama (L) holds her baby Pendo as it is given an injection as part of a malaria vaccine trial at a clinic in the Kenya coastal town of Kilifi, November 23, 2010 (file photo)

WHO: Malaria Deaths Drop 20 Percent Since 2000

UN agency reports malaria deaths dropped from 985,000 in 2000 to about 780,000 in 2009

Circulating tumor cell cluster of a patient with metastatic prostate cancer

Vitamin E Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk

Effect lingers even after men stop taking popular supplement

A diet high in fruits, vegetables and berries reduces heart disease for those at highest risk.

Veggies Help Fight Genetic Heart Attack Risk

Study finds healthier eating can turn off the risk gene

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (red) is hiding in human white blood cells (blue and green) cultured in vitamin D deficient serum so it is not being efficiently killed by cathelicidin and other proteins.

Study: Vitamin D is Powerful Weapon Against TB

Helps trigger mechanism that kills bacteria

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