A widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers of Americans： heart disease and stroke. That was the implication of a remarkabl
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The countdown goes something like this： 3) IRS auditor， 2) ex-husband’s new 20-year-old girlfriend， 1) dentist. The top three people we most hate to see.“Let’s face it，” says Dr. Lorin Berland， a dent
It was a big week for Alzheimer’s disease， and not just because PBS aired The Forgetting， a first-rate documentary about Alzheimer’s worth catching in reruns if you missed it the first time. There was
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