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	<title>RespiteMatch.com Health Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CDC says more shots are expected to be available in the next few weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	By PATRICIA ANSTETT
FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER
	October 18, 2006
	The nation’s flu supplies are adequate and 35 million more doses should arrive in the next six weeks, time to vaccinate anyone to avoid getting sick before the season peaks early next year, a top federal immunization official said Thursday.

“We are absolutely not calling this a shortage,” said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use of stents to prevent strokes discouraged</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	By Thomas H. Maugh II and Denise Gellene
Los Angeles Times
	The increasingly common practice of preventing strokes by using wire-mesh stents to prop open neck arteries is much riskier than the traditional method of surgically removing plaque and should be curtailed, according to two large European studies.

Patients receiving the stents were nearly 2 ½ times as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/796</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Spirituality and Health</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	To view this message as a picture and music presentation, click on the link below http://greatday.com/v.html?1482p05HY6qb
	THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Thursday, October 19, 2006
	Bring your vision to life
+++++++++++++++++++
	To change your reality, first change your perceptions. To bring something into your world, first bring it fully to life within yourself.
	Go beyond merely thinking about what you would like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parkinson&#8217;s therapy trial success</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/795</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Gene therapy has been shown to have &#8220;significant&#8221; clinical benefits for people with Parkinson&#8217;s disease, according to a study.
The small-scale trial showed the 12 patients&#8217; symptoms improved by up to 65% after a year, with no ill effects. 
	The trial was carried out by biotech company Neurologix Inc, based in the United States. 
	Steve Ford, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxotere Approved for Head and Neck Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/794</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	10.18.06, 12:00 AM ET
	WEDNESDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Taxotere (docetaxel) has received expanded approval to treat cancer of the head and neck, which accounts for about 3 percent of all cancer cases in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

In trials involving 358 people with the disease, people who took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds a Widespread Risk of Reactions to Some Medicines</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/793</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Health Care News</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO, Oct. 17 (AP) — Harmful reactions to medicines, usually attributed to accidental overdoses and allergic reactions, send more than 700,000 Americans to emergency rooms each year, government research shows.
	People over 65 faced the greatest risks. 
	The results, from 2004-5, represent the first two years of data from a national surveillance project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy mackerel! Fish is good for you</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/792</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Wednesday, October 18, 2006
	By Elizabeth Bernstein, The Wall Street Journal
	Health-conscious consumers have long been vexed by whether the health benefits of seafood outweigh the risks from toxic substances, such as mercury. Now, two large federally-funded studies have weighed the evidence and reached a definitive conclusion: Eat fish.

The reports &#8212; one from the Institute of Medicine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Spirituality and Health</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	To view this message as a picture and music presentation, click on the link below http://greatday.com/v.html?1481e05HY6qb
	THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
	Now more than ever
+++++++++++++++++++
	Think of all the things you&#8217;ve learned in your life. And just imagine how very much more there is that you can now learn based upon what you already know.
	Consider how your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vitamin D Retards Breast Cancer Progression</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/790</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	 By Crystal Phend, MedPage Today Staff Writer
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
October 17, 2006
	 Review
LONDON, Oct. 17 &#8212; There&#8217;s more evidence suggesting that vitamin D may be protective against breast cancer progression, but the relationship remains less than definitive, researchers here said. 
	Serum levels of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA approves new type of diabetes drug</title>
		<link>http://www.respitematch.com/blog/archives/789</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RespiteMatch.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:23 PM BST
	By Susan Heavey
	WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new diabetes drug that helps the body control blood sugar won U.S. approval on Tuesday, making it the first in a new class of pills that treat the disease without the weight gain seen with some other drugs.

The Food and Drug Administration approved [...]]]></description>
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