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Women, Heart Disease and Stroke

Heart disease isn't just a man's disease. Heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases are devastating to women, too. In fact, coronary heart disease, which causes heart attack, is the single leading cause of death for American women. Many women believe that cancer is more of a threat, but they're wrong. Nearly twice as many women in the United States die of heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases as from all forms of cancer, including breast cancer.

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Internet Addiction Linked to Depression

There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said.

The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed.

The Leeds University team stressed they could not say one necessarily caused the other, and that most internet users did not suffer mental health problems.

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Western medicine considers acupuncture a new and unproven experimental therapy although it has been in use in China for thousands of years. The way the therapy works is simple. Needles are inserted into the skin in an attempt to induce different physiological reactions from a patient. Sometimes electricity is used concurrently. Different regions of the body are said to have different effects on the physiology of the patient.

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has announced that a vaccine for malaria could be just three years away. Mr Gates is a key campaigner against the disease which kills a million people a year, most of them children.

Since it was formed, his foundation has spent billions of dollars in the fight against malaria. Just like smallpox, Mr Gates believes the disease can be eradicated. As yet, there is no vaccine, but, Mr Gates says, a breakthrough is near.

"We have a vaccine that's in the last trial phase - called phase three. A partially effective vaccine could even be available within three years, but a fully effective vaccine will take five to 10 years," he told the BBC World Service's World Today program.

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Today's Cool Image is of an illustration that has been enhanced to resemble an x-ray.

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Phakomatosis image of the retina, behind the eye.

In ophthalmology, any of several hereditary syndromes characterized by benign tumorlike nodules of the eye, skin, and brain. The four disorders designated phakomatoses are neurofibromatosis (Recklinghausen's disease), tuberous sclerosis (Bourneville's disease), encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis (Sturge-Weber syndrome), and cerebroretinal angiomatosis (von Hippel-Lindau disease). Also spelled phacomatosis.

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Hope for MS Pill in Near Future

Oral drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could become available in 2011 after promising results in two trials. Drug licenses have been applied for and the MS Society said it was "great news" for people with MS - current treatments involve injections or infusions.

The trials of the drugs each involved 1,000 people in over 18 countries, the New England Journal of Medicine says. Cladribine and fingolimod, which come as tablets, cut relapse rates by 50-60% over two years compared with placebos.

Fingolimod was also tested against the widely used injection, beta interferon 1a. The trial showed the new drug was twice as effective in reducing the number of relapses over a year.

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