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Nobel laureate downplays flu pandemic ‘shock-horror scenarios’
A Nobel prize-winning scientist Tuesday played down “shock-horror scenarios” that a new virus strain will emerge with the potential to kill millions of people. Peter Doherty, who jointly won the Nobel prize in 1996 for his work on how the immune system combats virus-infected cells, said the worst-case scenario was…
Women smokers who quit by 40 regain 9 otherwise lost years
Women can add nine years to their lives by quitting smoking before the age of 40 but still face a 20-percent higher death rate than those who never smoked, a study said Saturday. Published in The Lancet, a survey of nearly 1.2 million women in Britain showed that smoking throughout…
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