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Tuberculosis patients in South Africa wait to see doctors in 2009As many as 70,000 children are dying every year from tuberculosis, as the curable disease often goes unnoticed due to a failure by health workers to recognise the symptoms, the WHO said Wednesday.



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Sedentary life amplifies obesity genes: US study

A sedentary lifestyle can amplify a genetic disposition to obesity, but walking each day can cut effect in halfA sedentary lifestyle can amplify a genetic disposition to obesity, but just walking briskly, and briefly, each day can cut that effect in half, a new study showed Wednesday.



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A woman, suffering from Alzheimer's desease, walks in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern FranceThe most widely prescribed drug to treat mild Alzheimer’s disease, Aricept (donepezil), has been shown for the first time to help patients with more severe cases too, a study said Wednesday.



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A woman, suffering from Alzheimer's desease, walks in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern FranceThe most widely prescribed drug to treat mild Alzheimer’s disease, Aricept (donepezil), has been shown for the first time to help patients with more severe cases too, a study said Wednesday.



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A woman, suffering from Alzheimer's desease, walks in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern FranceThe most widely prescribed drug to treat mild Alzheimer’s disease, Aricept (donepezil), has been shown for the first time to help patients with more severe cases too, a study said Wednesday.



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