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Home births have 'fewer' complications - Dutch study
June 14th 2013 - Women with low risk pregnancies who choose a home birth may have a lower risk of severe complications than women who plan a hospital birth, researchers say today.

UK steps up measles battle
June 7th 2013 - British doctors are set to administer more than 200,000 extra doses of the MMR vaccine as they battle to halt the spreading measles outbreak, it was revealed today.

Call for global crack-down on tobacco promotion
May 31st 2013 - Health officials today called for worldwide bans on tobacco advertising and promotion as part of the drive to reduce smoking rates.

Population-wide gene map row
May 24th 2013 - Powerful modern techniques should make it possible to map every individual's personal genes - and improve medical care, according to one expert.

Men's health a world problem - experts
May 17th 2013 - Global strategies are failing to tackle the problems posed by men's health and behaviour, it is claimed today.

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May 10th 2013 - Foods that contain dietary nicotine, including peppers and tomatoes, could help to protect against Parkinson’s disease, researchers reported last night.

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Call for global crack-down on tobacco promotion
May 2013 - Health officials today called for worldwide bans on tobacco advertising and promotion as part of the drive to reduce smoking rates.

Drugs that prevent cancer
April 2013 - Taking breast cancer drugs has successfully helped protect hundreds of women from the disease, according to the findings of a major study reported today.

Cancer genes unveiled by the dozen
March 2013 - Dozens of new genetic findings about three major cancers were unveiled last night, bringing closer systematic testing for the diseases.

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September 24th 2004 - The first baby has been born to a woman who underwent an ovary transplant, it was announced today.

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September 27th 2004 - The birth of a baby to a woman who had an ovarian transplant has created hope for dozens of others - despite some scientific scepticism.

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May 6th - 8th 2002 - News Special from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Brisbane.

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July 9th 2001 - The links between psychiatry and the arts are to be celebrated at a conference which starts in London today.
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October 26th 2000 - The epidemic of so-called mad cow disease in the United Kingdom probably sprang from a genetic mutation in an animal in the early 1970s, according to a government report.

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