Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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Toxic marriage may hurt your heart

A lousy marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday.

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Treating mini-strokes rapidly cuts later risk

Oct. 8: About a quarter million Americans suffer from a mild form of stroke every year. NBC's Robert Bazell says people should pay attention. (Nightly News)Treating patients quickly for mini-strokes could dramatically cut the risk of a major stroke later, report two studies that could change standard treatment and potentially save millions of people from stroke’s damaging effects.


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Hipster parents want pop tots

epa01110799 US Singer/Designer Gwen Stefani (L) with son Kingston and husband Gavin Rossdale pose for photographers backstage at the L.A.M.B. Fashion Show at Mercedes- Benz Fashion Week in New York City USA, 05 September, 2007.  EPA/PETER FOLEYIs raising a Mini-Me cool for the kids?


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Three share Nobel Prize in medicine

Oct. 8: Two American scientists Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin Evans were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine for their work in gene targeting in mice. Msnbc.com's Kevin Flynn reports. (MSNBC.com)U.S. citizens Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Sir Martin J. Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a technique for manipulating mouse genes.


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Banked blood may lack vital component

** EMBARGOED UNTIL 5 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, OCT. 8, 2007 ** Red Cross worker Nelson Wilson, right,  prepares a volunteer blood donor prior to the Oakland Raiders-New Orleans Saints preseason game in Oakland, Calif. in this Sept. 1, 2005 file photo.  (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)Much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for it to deliver oxygen to the tissues.


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