Ageing Asia problem ’serious as climate change’ (AFP/File)

AFP/File - Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.

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Ageing Asia problem ’serious as climate change’ (AFP/File)

AFP/File - Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.

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Girl’s odyssey shows challenge of fighting obesity (AP)

AP - Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she’s a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.

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Study weighs benefits of transplants for leukemia (Reuters)

Reuters - Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday.

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Doc Who Tied Vaccine to Autism Ruled Unethical (Time.com)

Time.com - British medical authorities rule that Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind research that linked the triple Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism, acted “dishonestly and with “callous disregard” for the children involved in his study

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State to probe birth defects spike in Calif. town (AP)

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered two state agencies to investigate a rash of birth defects that have confounded impoverished Kettleman City for more than a year.

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Scientists Decode Brain Cancer Cell Line (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) — The first complete genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line has been performed by U.S

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Stocks fall on doubts about recovery’s strength (AP)

AP - Stocks ended a disappointing January with a loss as investors questioned whether the economy will be able to sustain its big fourth-quarter growth rate. Downbeat earnings at technology companies also pulled stocks down

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Targeting Cancer Stem Cells May Eradicate Tumors (HealthDay)

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Parkinson’s More Common in Northeast, Midwest (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) — The largest study of its kind finds that Parkinson’s disease in the United States is more common in the Midwest and Northeast, and that whites and Hispanics are twice as likely to develop the disease as blacks and Asians.

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