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166. Doctors don't always address high blood pressure
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors sometimes miss the opportunity to better control their patients' high blood pressure, according to a new study.
167. Hantavirus outbreak may offer clues to rare disease
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California researchers and public health officials have launched what they describe as a groundbreaking series of studies of a rare mouse-borne virus that has infected at least nine Yosemite National Park visitors, killing three of them, since June.
168. Docs missing chances to prevent newborn syphilis
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New York City doctors are sometimes missing valuable chances to prevent pregnant women from passing syphilis to their newborns, according to a review of city cases.
169. Smokers fare worse after knee surgery
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smokers have worse outcomes after knee surgery than non-smokers, including less-complete healing and more surgical complications, according to a new analysis.
170. Implants spark revamp of EU medical device rules
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has proposed tougher rules on assessing the safety and monitoring the use of medical devices and implants, after weak EU regulations were partly blamed for a global scandal over French-made breast implants.
171. WHO issues guidance on new virus, gears up for haj
     Wednesday, September 26, 2012
     GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged health workers around the world to report any patient with acute respiratory infection who may have traveled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar and been exposed to a new SARS-like virus confirmed in two people so far.
172. Salmonella sickens 30 in 19 states, peanut butter recalled
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty people in 19 states have fallen ill from Salmonella poisoning, probably from tainted peanut butter, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
173. Blood tests of driver sobriety makes Supreme Court agenda
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court will soon consider whether police must get a warrant before forcing a suspected drunken driver to submit to a blood test, a case that could set a new legal standard for motorists' privacy.
174. ACLU asks Supreme Court to reconsider gene patenting case
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a second time that the Supreme Court invalidate Myriad Genetics Inc's patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, the latest salvo in a case with broad consequences for the future of gene-based medicine.
175. Germany outlines new law allowing circumcision
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Justice Ministry has outlined a planned new law that will allow the circumcision of infant boys and end months of legal uncertainty after a local court banned the practice.
176. Down syndrome may hold key to new Alzheimer's treatments
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a new lead on Alzheimer's research, Johnson & Johnson is bankrolling a three-year pilot study of people with Down syndrome to identify the early changes that herald dementia, which afflicts up to 75 percent of adults with the condition.
177. Med students lack knowledge of healthcare overhaul
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     New York (Reuters Health) - The 2010 Affordable Care Act affects almost every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system, but many future doctors who will be operating under its policies admit they don't know that much about the law.
178. Knee replacements on the rise in the U.S.
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More seniors are getting their knees replaced with artificial joints, according to a new study of Medicare data.
179. Xbox games get kids moving, but benefits unclear
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids burned more calories while playing dance and boxing video games than they did during a sedentary car racing game, in a new UK study.
180. Pre-op MRI may not help breast cancer patients
     Tuesday, September 25, 2012
     NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having an MRI scan before breast cancer surgery may not cut a woman's risk of needing a second operation to go after additional tumor tissue - and may even raise her chance of getting an unnecessary mastectomy, a new study suggests.

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