Hidden cases of hepatitis C damaging livers in millions
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A study shows that hepatitis C infections that now silently affects four million Americans will increase the need for liver transplants by three times as much during the next decade. Americans who tried drugs in the '70s and '80s are at risk because the infection is spread through contact with contaminated blood. Liver expert Gary Davis of the University of Florida was the first to provide numbers so the uture impact of hepatitis C could be gauged. The study forecasts that in the year 2008 liver deaths will rise from 8,800 at present to 28,000. Hepatitis C, which silently attacks the liver for decades, exhibits mild or no symptons.
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A study shows that hepatitis C infections that now silently affects 4 mil Americans will increase the need for liver transplants
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Multivitamins cut colon cancer, study suggest
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A new study suggests that taking multivitamins for at least 15 years reduces the incidence of colon cancer by 75%. The study, conducted on 88,756 women, showed that women who took greater amount of folic acid from supplements and foods for at least 15 years, had 31% fewer colon cancers, when compared to those who got lesser doses of folic acid. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study was completed by researchers at Brighma and Women's Hospital, who were led by Edward Giovannucci.
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ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Made in her mothers' image?
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The researches of Paul Thompson and Gary Small and their teams at the University of California, of William Klunk of the University of Pittsburgh, and of Bengt Langstrom of the Uppsala University in Sweden may yet lead to the discovery of a cure for Alzheimer's disease or a treatment for removing a plaque that kills brain cells.
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Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 2003
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