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Reuters - British-born author Christopher Hitchens on Wednesday cut short a book tour to undergo chemotherapy, which several media outlets reported was because the heavy smoker has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Reuters - A heightened sense of reality mixed with pure pulp fiction is what makes Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy such compulsive reading. Few modern writers could get away with heroes who are such staunch moralists going up against villains who drip with such unrepentant evil.
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AP - The arthritis pill Vioxx was withdrawn but menopause hormones were not, even though both were tied to heart risks. A multiple sclerosis medicine was pulled and later allowed back on.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight and obese
people in the Asia-Pacific region have a significantly increased risk of
dying from cancer compared to those of normal weight, finds a new
study.
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Time.com - In June, Human Rights Watch released a study about female genital mutilation, commonly referred to as FGM, in Iraqi Kurdistan that stresses the prevalence of the practice and its lasting effects on women in the region
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AP - Spain's highest court has agreed to study whether a new abortion law allowing the procedure without restrictions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Research into Alzheimer's
disease has reached a point of significant potential, even as the
disease's looming impact on society grows more and more dire, experts
say.
