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Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer (AP)AP - Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years starting as young as age 12 can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their risk of breast cancer after menopause.
Senate revises drugmaker gift bill (Reuters)Reuters - A revised Senate bill would require drugmakers and medical devicemakers to publicly report gifts over $500 a year to doctors, watering down the standard set in a previous version.
Researchers find smoking-lung cancer culprit (Reuters)Reuters - A protein responsible for repairing damaged DNA may be a vital link to explaining how smoking causes lung cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Disclosing drug makers payments to docs gets boost (AP)AP - Legislation that would require prescription drug makers to disclose payments to doctors got a boost Tuesday when Eli Lilly and Co. broke ranks with the industry and endorsed the bill.
Health Tip: Reducing Rosacea (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News)- Rosacea is a skin condition that causes redness in the skin, primarily on the face. Rosacea cannot be cured, but some redness can be controlled with various treatments.
Health Tip: Can You Quit Smoking Without Weight Gain? (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Weight gain doesn't have to be a side effect of quitting smoking if you follow a few simple methods to keep you both slim and healthy.
Breast-feeding Might Shield Women From Rheumatoid Arthritis (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Women who breast feed for more than one year reduce their risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by half, according to a new Swedish study.
Beta Blockers Raise Stroke, Death Risk After Surgery (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who received the blood pressure-lowering drugs known as beta blockers after having non-cardiac surgery were at higher risk of dying or having a stroke, a new Canadian study found.
Health Highlights: May 13, 2008 (HealthDay)HealthDay - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Clinical Trials Update: May 13, 2008 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:

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