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Study: Quitting smoking before surgery improves patient outcomes
Patients who smoke had best stop doing so before they have surgery. That's the conclusion drawn by a group of German medical researchers, who have concluded that that patients who kick the habit... Read more...
Cancer rates drop for first time
There's good news on the cancer front: For the first time since the government started keeping track, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has decreased. Researchers already knew that the number of cancer... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: FDA admits it can't afford to boost foreign inspections; Researchers test anti-smoking vaccine; and much more...
> The FDA has conceded that maybe, just maybe, it will need more money if it's going to do a good job of inspecting foreign drug manufacture sites. Read more...
