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Mystery as Tokyo loses track of its centenarians (AP)

AP - Japanese authorities admitted Tuesday they’d lost track of a 113-year-old woman listed as Tokyo’s oldest, days after police searched the home of the city’s official oldest man — only to find his long-dead, mummified body.

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WHO criticizes Amnesty report into NKorea health (AP)

AP - The World Health Organization found itself Friday in the strange position of defending North Korea’s health care system from an Amnesty International report, three months after WHO’s director described medicine in the totalitarian state as the envy of the developing world.

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More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan.

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Hunting newborn tests for super-rare gene diseases (AP)

AP - At his first birthday, John Klor couldn’t sit up on his own. A few months later, he was cruising like any healthy toddler — thanks to a special diet that’s treating the North Carolina boy’s mysterious disease.

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Hunting newborn tests for super-rare gene diseases
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Clues to Cancer That Could Wipe Out Tasmanian Devils (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec.

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Clues to Cancer That Could Wipe Out Tasmanian Devils
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Mystery of Tasmanian Devil Cancer Solved (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - All it takes is a bite for a Tasmanian devil to pass a lethal cancer on to its kin. Now scientists have figured out the origin of the transmissible facial tumor disease that’s wiping the creatures out: nerve cells.

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Mystery of Tasmanian Devil Cancer Solved
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Thousands unknowingly infected with HIV: Algerian NGO (AFP)

AFP - An Algerian health organisation warned Monday that thousands of people in the north African country are unknowingly infected with the AIDS virus as it called for more testing and prevention efforts.

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US spends more on obesity than cancer: Sebelius (AFP)

AFP - The US medical system spends around twice as much treating preventable health conditions caused by obesity than it does on cancer, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday.

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‘Eco-Therapy’ for Environmental Depression: Go Jump Off a Pier (Time.com)

Time.com - A growing brand of therapy links depression and anxiety to alienation from the natural environment. The fix?

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N.Korea’s Kim Jong-Il has pancreatic cancer: report (AFP)

AFP - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has cancer and may not live more than five years, a South Korean cable news channel reported on Monday.

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