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UK Airlines To Bar Passengers With H1N1 Symptoms From Boarding

British airlines have begun their “war on swine flu” by instructing the check-in staff to watch out for swine flu symptoms in passengers. Passengers with suspected H1N1 infections can be prevented from...

Pap Awareness Week urges all women to get regular pap tests

Pap Awareness Week is taking place in British Columbia from June 8 to June 13. The B.C Cancer Agency is offering all women in the province the chance to have a pap test at designated walk in clinics and want to...

NFB makes films free online

This is really exciting news. The archive at the National Film Board of Canada (the NFB) is pure gold and has up until now been fairly inaccessible. "The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming....

Breast cancer fears - "Get Screened!"

A rise in deaths due to breast cancer in the UK is feared as less women are taking up the offer offer of free NHS breast cancer screening. Women leading busy lives coupled with fear has seen rates of take up of...

Many still ignorant about cancer, study shows

Research shows that people across the world are still ignorant about cancer and that this ignorance leads to more chnce of death from the diseases. In a report highlighting ignorance in Singapore almost two thirds...

Home cancer test kits to be supplied to all UK over 60s

Bowel cancer is one of the most common cancers for both men and women in the UK but if caught early can be effectively treated. The government have released plans for all over 60s in the UK to be issued with home...

First UK baby screened for cancer due

The birth of the first baby in the UK to be screened free of a breast cancer inherited gene will be born soon. The treatment which sees a planned pregnancy approach with embryos containing the gene for breast...

No Routine Breast Screen for under 40s

If you are under 40 and want to be screened for breast cancer forget it unless you have the extra bucks to pay for it outside of a recognised state program. Many younger women feel that they should be able to...

Las Vegas Metro Police Department partners with ICE

" LAS VEGAS - Beginning this month, 10 officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) will be screening criminal aliens booked into the Clark County Detention Center for possible follow-up immigration enforcement as part of a partnership with U.S....

New virus test may stop cervical cancer in rural women

A new rapid test for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, has proven to be 90 percent accurate in a trial involving women in rural villages in eastern China.  The trial involved 2,388...

Canadian Changes His Name to Circumvent No-Fly List

The famous TSA No-Fly List- rife with duplicates, data entry errors, and plain ol' mistakes- has become a bane for many law-abiding travelers and would-be visitors to the USA. Those on the list do not get an...

Batman Beats Star Wars!

"According to Box Office Mojo, The Dark Knight made $18 million dollars during last night's advanced midnight screening. It beats the $16 million made by Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in 2005. "

Top Colon Cancer Prevention Tips - Cancer Prevention - Tony Snow Story

By Albert N. Millliron, Editor Politisite.com Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary Died to day at 53 years old.  His diagnosis was Colon Cancer.  While other news folks at NowPublic have the...

New York Hosts Dark Knight Premiere

Anticipation continues to build toward the much-hyped opening weekend of The Dark Knight, as the film had its world premiere screening in New York last night, with the film's stars and family of the late actor...

Gene test gives early alert for breast cancer

This story ring me a bell to one patient. She has to pay a lot of money for the medicine. "All women could soon be offered a genetic test which would tell them whether they were likely or unlikely to contract...

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