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Health News Archive - May 30, 2008

DETROIT, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan ranked among the nation's top 30 hospitals in the U.S.News & World Report's 2008 edition of America's Best Children's Hospitals.

CLEVELAND, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital at University Hospitals Case Medical Center is once again ranked as a top five children's hospital (#5) by U.S. News & World Report.

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Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.

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Of all age groups, 19-to-29-year-olds most likely to be uninsured; 2 of 5 high school grads and 1/3 of college grads will be uninsured in year after graduation

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A new study provides the most direct evidence that there exists a causal link between smoking during pregnancy and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Researchers in Britain report they have identified two common bacteria that may contribute to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), one of the leading causes of death in children under the age of one.

An initial set of NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates(TM), peer-reviewed and evidence-based chemotherapy regimens with indications, doses, and schedules and routes of administration will be previewed at the upcoming American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting to be held May 31 to June 2, 2008.

PHILADELPHIA, May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of District 1199C of the National Union of Hospital and Healthcare Employees AFSCME, AFL-CIO this morning (Friday) ratified a four-year contract agreement with Hahnemann University Hospital that calls for a 16.8 percent increase in wages and benefits.

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An appeals court in Texas reversed a $26.1 million verdict against drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc., finding no evidence that its popular painkiller Vioxx was responsible for the blood clot that triggered a fatal heart attack in Robert Ernst, the plaintiff’s husband.