A Little Flute Music To Warm The Cave
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 24, 2009
Archaeologists have unearthed the world's oldest musical instruments: flutes. These vulture-bone flutes no doubt helped warm our ancestors' spirits as they pushed north into Europe's hostile Ice Age conditions.
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UN reports decline in cultivation of some drugs (AP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
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Salty Sea May Lurk Under Saturn Moon
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 24, 2009
Salty ice grains inside in Saturn's outer ring point to a possible underground ocean on the moon Enceladus.
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Weight-loss surgery cuts cancer rate in obese women (AFP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
AFP - Weight-loss surgery that curbs food intake by stitching up parts of the stomach or small intestine reduces the risk of cancer in obese women by more than 40 percent, according to a study released Thursday.
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Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies (AP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 24, 2009
AP - Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. It's a surprise finding. Psychiatrists from the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, who were studying perceptions of beauty, had expected women to spend more time than men cooing over pictures of extra-cute babies. Nope.
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Obesity While Young Boosts Pancreatic Cancer Risk (HealthDay)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 23, 2009
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Slain Soldiers Offer Clues To Protect The Living
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 23, 2009
In 2001, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology began conducting autopsies on all slain service men and women. Captain Craig T. Mallak describes how the physical (and sometimes virtual) autopsies of soldiers have assisted in the design of body armor, helmets and vehicle shields.
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Ad Watch: Exploiting Public's Distrust Of Insurers
By NPR Topics: Health & Science | June 23, 2009
A new ad by a major activist group blames the health care system's ills on greedy insurance companies and promotes a government-backed insurer as the cure. But the diagnosis is flawed.
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Iran's Crisis Posing a Problem for Its Mideast Allies (Time.com)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 23, 2009
Time.com - For years, opinion polls have found Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the most popular leader among ordinary Arabs who decry their own rulers' authoritarianism and impotence. Iran's election debacle could dim his appeal
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House Democrats to open hearings on health bill (AP)
By Yahoo! News: Health News | June 23, 2009
AP - House Democrats are pushing forward with a partisan health care bill even as a key Senate Democrat labors to achieve an elusive bipartisan compromise on President Barack Obama's top legislative priority.
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