Murdoch novel reveals disease
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The last novel by the author Iris Murdoch reveals the first signs of Alzheimer's disease, experts say.
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Health News, New York,A World Health Organisation (WHO) committee has sanctioned genetic research on the heavily protected smallpox virus that ravaged the world for centuries, sending shockwaves among scientists worldwide.
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LONDON - British novelist Iris Murdoch&#39;s last book, 1995&#39;s Jackson&#39;s Dilemma, is evidence that the author was coping with the effects of Alzheimer&#39;s disease before she had been diagnosed.
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Rupert Murdoch is destined to dramatically change The Wall Street Journal's culture. But not in the way most critics are predicting.
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Four times, I have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. Each time, the news stopped me cold; it landed me in a hospital; it forced me to rearrange my life and rethink my responsibilities while my body was battered by drugs and surgery.
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Rupert Murdoch's decision to cancel an O. J. Simpson television and book project was a rare acknowledgment that there are limits.
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why the H5N1 strain of bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.
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The story of Andrew Speaker's infection with "extensively drug-resistant" tuberculosis -- with its weird improbabilities and misunderstood messages -- has provided a crash course in one of the 21st century's least recognized health threats.
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The high survival rate among the injured at the battle of Waterloo could help inform modern medicine.
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Genetic breakthroughs and an unlikely drug offer hope for a disease ravaging the eyes of an aging population.
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Newspaper sympathy ads illuminate complex attitudes to death, privacy and power.
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause of diseases ranging
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AN article in scientific journal says researchers have discovered a rare disease caused by a gene mutation that often kills children before the age of two.
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Noted academic Elyn Saks hid her illness for years. Now in a new book she opens up about what it's like to have a severe mental illness
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A dramaâs plot links autism with childhood vaccinations.
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What the Internet tells us about how the media, advertising and awareness months spread information on diseases and illnesses