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Conditions ripe for disease in Myanmar delta (AP)

Homeless Burmese eat candy from a overseas donator at a monastery serving as a  temporary shelter for cyclone victims on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, May 26, 2008. In a release seen Monday, the International Red Cross said at least 1.5 million people, many of them hungry and ailing, remained homeless in the rain-swept Irrawaddy delta. (AP Photo)AP - Myint Hlaing’s family bathes and draws cooking water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter suffers from diarrhea, despite drinking bottled water donated by aid groups.


Oryginal: AP

Laser Therapy a New Option for Vocal-Cord Cancers (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) — A new laser treatment for early
vocal-cord cancer targets tumor blood vessels while preserving and
restoring patients’ voices, according to Massachusetts General Hospital
researchers, who noted that radiotherapy or surgery can permanently damage
vocal quality.

Oryginal: HealthDay

Senator Kennedy in sailing regatta week after cancer biopsy (AFP)

Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, pictured in April 2008, took the helm of his yacht Monday in a sailing regatta just a week after doctors performed a brain biopsy that diagnosed him with cancer.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy took the helm of his yacht Monday in a sailing regatta just a week after doctors performed a brain biopsy that diagnosed him with cancer.


Oryginal: AFP

Dutch claim first sequencing of female DNA (AP)

AP - Dutch scientists claim they have completed the first sequencing of an individual woman’s DNA.

Oryginal: AP

Scientists test brain pacemakers for depression (AP)

Graphic explains how depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder are treated with electrodes in the brain; 1c x 3 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 98.4 mmAP - It’s a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients’ nerve circuitry fires.


Oryginal: AP