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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

AP - In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline.

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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

Shadows of patients at a weight reduction clinic. 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.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)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

Around a quarter of a million babies are born each year through in-vitro and other assisted fertilisation techniques, according to a report released on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)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

HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Being overweight or obese as a young adult increases the risk for pancreatic cancer, and obesity in middle age is linked with poorer survival from the disease, a new study finds.

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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

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran 

Iranian security personnel ride past burning debris on the streets in Tehran June 20, 2009. REUTERS via Your ViewTime.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

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2009 file photo, then-Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle, right, smiles as he prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, accompanied by former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. Daschle, who once was Obama's choice for shepherding the nation's health care overhaul through Congress, said the chance of legislation passing is no better than 50-50. Those are fairly good odds, he said, for such complicated proposals that stir such deep passions.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)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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