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'Magic mushrooms' may raise 'openness' - UPI.com
Oct 1, 2011 - BALTIMORE, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- One high dose of the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms" may measurably and permanently increase "openness" personality traits, US researchers say. The researchers' study, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology,
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Calling the Nurse 'Doctor,' a Title Physicians Oppose - New York Times
Oct 1, 2011 - Patti McCarver, a nurse whose doctor of nursing practice degree entitles her to call herself “doctor,” meeting with a patient. By GARDINER HARRIS NASHVILLE — With pain in her right ear, Sue Cassidy went to a clinic. The doctor, wearing a white lab coat
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Canada court lets injection facility remain open - The Associated Press
Sep 30, 2011 - VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canada's Supreme Court on Friday turned down the Conservative government's attempt to close North America's only legal drug injection facility. The facility called Insite was promoted by its founders as a safe,
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Remedy Is Elusive as Metallic Hips Fail at a Fast Rate - New York Times
Sep 30, 2011 - An orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Young-Min Kwon, center, removed a metal hip from a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital. By BARRY MEIER BOSTON — As surgeons here sliced through tissue surrounding a failed artificial hip in a 53-year-old man,
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Pfizer, pharmacy group warn on counterfeit drugs - Wall Street Journal
Sep 29, 2011 - AP TRENTON, NJ — Pfizer Inc. and a pharmacy standards group are teaming to warn consumers about the risks of counterfeit prescription medicines, which endanger the public and take money from both pharmacies and legitimate drugmakers.
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Mass. cat with 2 faces lives 12 years, sets record - The Associated Press
Sep 29, 2011 - WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes — and lots of doubts about his future. Now, 12 years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being put to sleep because of his condition,
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Happy and You Know It? So Are Millions on Twitter - New York Times
Sep 29, 2011 - However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Mumbai, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., people tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their mood taper gradually to a low in the late afternoon,
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Two-faced cat breaks Guinness world record - Telegraph.co.uk
Sep 29, 2011 - The feline, named Frank and Louie, has become the longest surviving member of a group known as Janus cats, named after the two-faced Roman god of transitions. Twelve years after owner Marty Stevens rescued him from being put down, the blue-eyed rag
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Pre-hypertension Greatly Increases Stroke Risk - HealthNews
Sep 29, 2011 - SUMMARY: Just slightly high blood pressure--known as pre-hypertension--can greatly increase stroke risk. For a long time, we've known that having high blood pressure can lead to serious medical
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Listeria outbreak expected to cause more deaths across US in coming weeks - The Guardian
Sep 29, 2011 - AP Workers in a field of rotting cantaloupe melons on the Jensen Farms in Colorado. Cantaloupe grown on the farm have been linked to a nationwide outbreak of listeria. Photograph: Ed Andrieski/AP An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe melons in the US
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Pfizer, pharmacy group warn on counterfeit drugs - The Associated Press
Sep 29, 2011 - Drugmaker Pfizer and a pharmacy standards group are warning consumers about the risks of counterfeit prescription medicines. Pfizer Inc. and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy are starting an educational campaign to explain the dangers and
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Venezuela's Chavez denies health problems - AFP
Sep 29, 2011 - CARACAS — President Hugo Chavez appeared before journalists to deny reports his health had taken a turn for the worse, saying he was "doing well" as he recovers from cancer treatment. The Venezuelan president showed up at the Miraflores presidential
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Surgeons save thumb of injured Yosemite climber - The Associated Press
Sep 28, 2011 - YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A rock climber whose thumb was severed when he fell and it was caught in a rope has had the digit reattached by surgeons, officials at Yosemite National Park said Wednesday. The two climbers were nearing the summit
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Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor of Implantable Pacemaker, Dies at 92 - New York Times
Sep 28, 2011 - Wilson Greatbatch, a professed “humble tinkerer” who, working in his barn in 1958, designed the first practical implantable pacemaker, a device that has preserved millions of lives, died on Tuesday at his home in Williamsville,
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Canada orders tougher cigarette warnings - AFP
Sep 27, 2011 - OTTAWA — Canada's tobacco manufacturers and importers on Tuesday were given until March 2012 to adopt new austere warning labels on cigarette packages featuring a woman dying of lung cancer. The graphic health warning will cover 75 percent of the front
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