Pill 'stopped 100,000 UK deaths'
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The contraceptive pill has prevented at least 100,000 UK deaths from ovarian cancer, researchers say.
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Federal drug regulators strengthened the warning label on the pill, RU-486, after the death of a woman who took the pill.
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Taking the contraceptive pill greatly reduces women's risk of ovarian cancer and continues to protect them for at least 30 years after they stop taking it, research has shown.
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WASHINGTON Nov 16, 2004 - The government on Tuesday said a controversial abortion pill is safe enough to remain on the market, despite a third death and a grieving father&#39;s plea.
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Vitamin supplements increase the death rate of people taking them, medical researchers have found - but they don&#39;t know why. About one in three women and one in four men in Britain take dietary supplements to boost their health.
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Taking the contraceptive pill does not increase a woman's chance of developing cancer and could even reduce the risk of getting the killer disease, a major British medical study showed on Wednesday.
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Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said.
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.
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The first nationwide survey of Iraqi deaths since the US-led invasion concludes that about 100,000 people have died as a result
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Thousands of deaths could be prevented each year if tax was added to a range of foods, a study says.
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A two-drug combination pill dramatically reduced deaths among Blacks with heart failure, a landmark finding likely to lead to government approval of the first medication marketed for a specific race.
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A cheap, easy-to-use drug that prevents  bleeding after childbirth could help to save the lives of  thousands of women in poor countries, researchers said on  Friday.
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Breast cancer screening has nearly halved the number of deaths from the disease, according to a study of women seen on the NHS published today
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The evidence is in: we can stop diseases like malaria and TB from killing millions of people each year.
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Weekly injections for pregnant women of a drug derived from the hormone progesterone could have prevented nearly 10,000 premature births in 2002, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs has succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization is reporting today.
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British researchers found that women taking the birth control pill for 15 years halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it.