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Headache Defined

Pain or discomfort in the head or face area. Headaches can be single or recurrent in nature, and localized to one or more areas of the head and face.

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Mayor of Nashville, Ark., remains in hospital

Published December 4, 2008, 8:58 am, Pine Bluff Commercial

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Nashville Mayor Mike Reese remains in critical condition after suffering a brain aneurysm while watching a high school football playoff game.

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Rare illness origins mystify

Published December 4, 2008, 8:22 am, Otago Daily Times

Young Dunedin mother Leah Craigie is one of nine Otago people infected by a puzzling national outbreak of a rare type of salmonella. Mrs Craigie (24) contracted salmonella Typhimurium phage type 42 about a month ago.

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CROOKSTON: Carbon monoxide poisoning sends two to hospital

Published December 4, 2008, 5:52 am, Park Rapids Enterprise

A furnace system failure poisoned an elderly Crookston couple with carbon monoxide, rendering them unconscious before they were rescued late Tuesday.

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Study Finds Allergic Reactions Uncommon With HPV Vaccine Gardasil

Published December 4, 2008, 5:13 am, Medical News Today

Allergic reactions to Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil are uncommon, and most girls and young women can tolerate further doses in the three-dose regimen, according to a study published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal, Dow Jones/CNNMoney.com reports. Since U.S.

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Researchers From La Jolla Institute And Albany Medical College Identify Cell Group Key To Lyme Disease Arthritis

Published December 4, 2008, 5:11 am, Medical News Today

A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer (NK) T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and reducing the intensity and duration of arthritis associated with Lyme disease.

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Missouri man's rabies death is reminder of danger

Published December 4, 2008, 4:58 am, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mike Reed, 55, from Houston, Mo. Rabies remains a threat to people, health officials warned, after the rare death this week of a Missouri man who caught the disease from a bat. The rabies death was the first in the state since 1959.

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Rare skin condition threatens to take woman's life: Side-effects from innocuous antibiotics blamed for skin loss

Published December 4, 2008, 4:13 am, The Telegram

A Mount Pearl woman is in the intensive care unit at the Health Sciences Centre fighting for her life after a one-in-a-million condition left her without skin on 70 per cent of her body.

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Sucampo Completes Enrollment In Phase 3 Pivotal Studies Of Oral Lubiprostone To Treat Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction

Published December 4, 2008, 4:11 am, Medical News Today

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMP) today announced that it has completed enrollment and initial dosing of patients in two pivotal phase 3 trials of lubiprostone for the treatment of Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction (OBD). "If lubiprostone is successful in Phase 3, we believe that it could represent a breakthrough in the treatment of patients suffering from OBD," said Ryuji Ueno, M.D.

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Flu On Campus: Avoiding Misery For $20

Published December 4, 2008, 3:29 am, NPR

Every year, about 1 in 4 college students gets the flu. A $20 flu shot can be a cheap insurance policy against aching joints and muscles, high fever, missed classes. But even that isn't enough to motivate some students to get vaccinated, so one health expert is trying an economic argument.

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Young Kids Twice as Likely to Get the Flu as Adults

Published December 4, 2008, 2:21 am, Carteret County News-Times

(ARA) - School-age children would rather do chores, take a test or do homework than have to stay at home sick, according to the recent MedImmune Parent-Child Influenza Survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Being sick, they say, makes them feel bored, annoyed, gross and even sad.

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