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1. Low vitamin D common in kids with cystic fibrosis

   NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and current treatment recommendations for correcting the deficiency are "inadequate," conclude clinicians from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland.

2. New Hope For Cystic Fibrosis

   Cystic fibrosis causes lung problems that claim its victims in the prime of life and there is no cure. But, as Sanjay Gupta reports, now there is new hope.

3. Cystic fibrosis: FAQs on the disease of '65 roses'

   What is cystic fibrosis, what causes it, who is affected, how is it diagnosed, what are the common symptoms, how is it treated and how does it affect the lives of people with the disease?

4. Carleton student council reinstates cystic fibrosis fundraiser

   The student council at an Ottawa university has reversed its controversial decision to pull out of an annual fundraiser for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation after vocal protests from students

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7. NASA to start long distance repairs on Hubble

   WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA engineers say they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up computer parts that have been sleeping in space for more than 18 years....

8. Hospital 'failed' woman patient

   Failures at Kettering hospital contributed to the death of a woman patient, a coroner rules.

9. Hospitals protest new California rules on patient billing

   Physicians also dispute a ban on charging emergency room patients for balances not paid by insurers. Emergency room patients can no longer be stuck with the bill when hospitals or physicians disagree with insurance companies on their fees.

10. Doctor and Patient: What Does Grace Mean to You?

    Actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith explores the meaning of grace in the health care setting.

11. Voyage Distance (rar,)

    Voyage Distance is a work platform for voyage planning, port distance calculating, multi-voyage activity monitoring, and flexible routing.It can also design routes freely,draw routes casually by yourself when design mode is activated.Include thousands of ports on world map.Group voyages into favorite categories and make all voyages easy to manage.Input ports of voyages by typing search or by clicking on port name on world map.Display FFA routes on world map and Routes description in the same time. Display multi-voyage activities on world map simultaneously. When click on the vessel logo on the voyage, shipping detail status will be displayed.Export voyage information to other user. Voyage definition (.voy) files can be transferred between users.Flexible routing by click on router points on world map. Make voyage routing what you see is what you get.Calculate ETA automatically at the same time with distance calculation. Weather factor can be included in ETA calculation. Version 2.0 calculates Waypoint automati ...

12. Surgeon Still Tight With Patient He Put Back Together

    An awards banquet honoring a doctor served as the setting for him to reunite with a patient that was in three pieces when the two met 16 years ago.

13. Stay calm! Become a patient investor

    If you can't commit to staying in the market despite its ups and downs, you're treading dangerous waters, particularly if you're not an experienced investor. TODAY Financial editor Jean Chatzky explains how to become a successful and patient investor.

14. Mind: When All Else Fails, Blaming the Patient Often Comes Next

    Lots of patients elude doctors’ clinical skill and therapeutic cleverness. That’s often when the trouble starts.

15. McCain Emphasizes Distance From Bush

    BELTON, Mo., Oct. 20 -- Battling George W. Bush for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000, John McCain lashed out at the Texas governor, denouncing his proposed tax cuts as a giveaway to the rich.

16. Cancer patient's fight over care

    A lung cancer patient takes legal action against health chiefs after paying privately for a drug and being refused NHS treatment.

17. Patient files 'more accessible'

    The health service is to invest £300m in the next 10 years in information and communication technology.

18. Netpas Distance

    10/22/08 - Calculate your port distance to find shortest route.

19. Love the Environment? Break Up With Your Long-Distance Boyfriend, Says Slate

    No wonder it's so hard to get people to go green.

20. Daley appears to distance self from gay high school proposal

    Posted by Carlos Sadovi and Dan Mihalopoulos at 6:55 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday seemed to distance himself from a proposal to build the first city’s first high school aimed at gay students. Speaking to reporters, the mayor said...

21. Doctor and Patient: Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor

    Narrative medicine employs short stories, poems and essays to build empathy in young doctors.

22. Oxford says cancer drug may increase patient survival

    (Reuters) - Oxford BioMedica said on Friday a cross-trial analysis of its experimental drug TroVax in colorectal, renal and prostate cancer showed a positive correlation between immune response and patient survival.

23. Aquarium of the Pacific's rescued green sea turtle a model patient

    The injured reptile had been trapped for nearly a month in an intake channel near a power plant. Meanwhile, experts want to know why its colony has made a heavily industrialized stretch of river home. The moment the green sea turtle hit the veterinary emergency ward at the Aquarium of the Pacific, it was swept into a whirlwind of critical care starting with X-rays that revealed broken digits and infected lacerations in two front flippers and a 3-inch gash on its carapace. In a rear flipper, veterinarians found a fishing hook.

24. McCain tries to distance himself from Bush

    ZANESVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Sunday fought to distance himself from unpopular President George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama attempted to attach them at the hip on a day of fierce campaigning.

25. Williams needs to apologize at cancer inquiry: patient

    The last week of testimony in Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry has begun, with final witnesses including the man who ordered the probe last year: Premier Danny Williams.

26. How to be the perfect patient

    Who'd be a GP? Unfortunately, we family doctors have a bad reputation at the moment. The Government doesn't like us because we got a massive pay rise and now they're painting us as lazy fat cats whom patients can never get to see. Meanwhile, we are as busy as ever. So why do we put up with it? Why have I put up with it for 25 years, seeing up to 60 patients a day? Because we care about patients. The relationships we form keep us going. I've got patients who I've seen as children and who are now married and bringing in their own children.

27. ER patient in Anderson gets arrested after refusing to leave

    A 40-year-old Anderson man with no fixed address was arrested about 4 a.m. Monday after he failed to follow a doctor's order.

28. Oconee Medical Center board hears update about patient tower

    Work on the new patient tower for Oconee Medical Center is on schedule and on budget, the center board of directors heard Monday.

29. Cases: In a Eulogy, Finding a Person, Not a Patient

    With the time pressures of medical practice it can be easy to ignore the sorts of things that make a patient into a real person.

30. Intestinal cystic pneumatosis in Crohn's disease

    Salles Valdemir Jose Alegre, Cauduro Antonio Baptista, Saba Eduardo, Salgado Felipe CauduroIndian Journal of Gastroenterology 2008 27(4):164-164

31. The Khalidi Gambit, Part II: The IRI Confirms, Tries to Distance Self, from Khalidi

    “Now, interesting what we are finding out in the last couple days about this assortment of friends from Chicago...that Barack Obama has,” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said today at a rally at Bowling Green University, per ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala....

32. Patient given pioneering lung op

    A man has a life-saving transplant using lungs from a donor made to breathe outside the body.

33. Patient diversion over at Charlottetown hospital

    Officials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital say the diversion of some patients to other hospitals is now over.

34. Expand travel policy for drug trials, cancer patient pleads

    The Newfoundland and Labrador government ought to change its policy and allow greater access to its medical transportation assistance program, a patient who has battled cancer for a decade says.