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| Britain's Brown backs status quo on abortion law
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday he plans to vote against a reduction in the country's 24-week time limit on abortion when parliament considers the hotly-contested issue next week. |
| Dennis Quaid backs drugmaker liability suits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actor Dennis Quaid urged the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to preserve patients' rights to sue drugmakers for injuries, recounting how his newborn twins nearly died from an accidental drug overdose. |
| Arthritis may be triggered by environmental factors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A number of environmental exposures, including trauma, are associated with the onset of inflammatory arthritis in patients with psoriasis, findings published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases indicate. |
| Clot-busting drug ups bleeding stroke survival
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research confirms that a very low dose of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), a clot-busting drug, improves survival in patients with bleeding or "hemorrhagic" strokes, a type that is usually fatal. |
| Research links common chemicals to obesity
GENEVA (Reuters) - Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. |
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