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- Long-term
psychotherapy helps complex cases: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Long-term psychotherapy is effective at treating
complex mental disorders, German researchers reported on Tuesday in a
finding that offers rare evidence that this type of treatment works.
  
- Acupressure
seen to calm children before surgery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acupressure helps calm anxious children right
before they get anesthesia for surgery, without the nausea and other
side-effects caused by sedatives, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
- Genetic
link found to colon cancer in study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A gene related to a hormone secreted by the body's
fat cells may lower the risk of colon cancer, a discovery that could
reassure people with a family history of the disease, researchers said
on Tuesday.
- Fewer
doses of anthrax vaccine protect just as well
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Giving fewer doses of the anthrax vaccine
protects a person just as well from the bacteria that causes the
disease, which could extend limited supplies of the shots, researchers
said on Tuesday.
- Danish
study finds HRT does not raise heart attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who take hormone replacement therapy to
treat menopause symptoms do not have a higher than usual risk of heart
attack, especially if they use a cream or skin patch or take
"cyclic" hormone combinations, Danish researchers reported on
Tuesday.
- New
Applied Biosystems test diagnoses flu fast
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fast new genetic flu test from Applied
Biosystems Inc and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday.
- China
vows safe food action; Lipton recalls milk-tea
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao lectured a dairy
executive on food safety on Tuesday in a show of government resolve in
the toxic milk scandal, even as another Western food brand, Lipton, was
affected.
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