"HPV vaccine proves effective against warts, cancer"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 21 Jul 2010

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

Keywords: human, papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine, sexually, transmitted, infections, cervical, cancer

The human papillomavirus vaccine strongly and consistently protects against genital warts - one of...
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"Vitamin E May Slow Alzheimer's Decline"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 06 May 2009

Category: Other

Rating: (1 star)

NEW YORK -- Vitamin E and drugs that reduce inflammation may slow the decline of mental and...
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"Statins reduce blood-clot risk: study"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 30 Mar 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also...
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"Testosterone patch may put pleasure back in post-menopause sex"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 06 Nov 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

The male sex hormone testosterone may help restore sexual pleasure in some post-menopausal women,...
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"Therapy plus Zoloft helps kids ease anxiety"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 30 Oct 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

CHICAGO - A popular antidepressant plus three months of psychotherapy dramatically helped children...
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"Aspirin may cut breast cancer risk"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 08 Oct 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

A new international study involving Canadian researchers is providing some of the most compelling...
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"Regulating blood sugar with one shot a week"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 09 Sep 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (5 stars)

A once-a-week injectable diabetes drug appears to lower blood sugar somewhat better than the same...
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"Vaccine doubles survival of deadly cancer"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 02 Jun 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (1½ stars)

CHICAGO - A cancer vaccine more than doubled the survival time of people with the most common and...
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"Asthma drugs help to prevent birth defects"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 08 May 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

Women who have an asthma attack during the first three months of pregnancy put their babies at a...
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"AstraZeneca drug gets boost in cholesterol wars"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 31 Mar 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

LONDON - AstraZeneca Plc is stopping a clinical trial of its blockbuster cholesterol fighter...
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"The Pill may lower cancer risk"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 25 Jan 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

The longer a woman takes birth-control pills, the lower her risk of developing ovarian cancer,...
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"Statins also cut cancer risk, U.S. study says"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 09 Jan 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

CHICAGO - Statins - those hard-working, cholesterol-fighting drugs - may also cut the risk of...
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"Are you getting enough vitamin D?"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 19 Dec 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (3 stars)

Vitamin D tests conducted on a group of University of Toronto students have found that virtually...
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"A spoonful of honey calms an irritating cough"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 07 Dec 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (3 stars)

Concern over the safety of children's cough and cold medicines has recently reached a fevered...
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"Drugs offer only modest weight loss"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 16 Nov 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (4½ stars)

Most severely overweight patients taking anti-obesity drugs will realize only modest weight loss,...
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"Statins may have long-term benefits"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 10 Oct 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs help prevent heart attacks for at least a decade after people...
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"Vitamin D can lower risk of death by 7 per cent"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 11 Sep 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

Taking vitamin D has been found to have a new benefit: It appears to be a life extender, according...
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"Popular diabetes drugs may double heart risks"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 27 Jul 2007

Category: Harm Stories

Rating: (4½ stars)

A class of drugs commonly used to treat diabetes doubles the risk of heart failure, according to a...
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"Sweeping cancer edict: take vitamin D daily"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 08 Jun 2007

Category: Other

Rating: (4½ stars)

TORONTO - The Canadian Cancer Society plans to announce Friday that all adults should start taking...
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"Liver cancer patients get hope from kidney cancer drug"

Source: Globe and Mail

Published: 04 Jun 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

CHICAGO - For the first time, doctors say they have found a pill that improves survival in liver...
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