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• Alzheimer's drug Dimebon helps Huntington's - study (Reuters) February 8, 2010
  Reuters - Dimebon, a pill being developed as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, helped people with Huntington's disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday. […]
• Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 8, 2010 (HealthDay) February 8, 2010
  HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: […]
• Older Moms More Apt to Have Autistic Child (HealthDay) February 8, 2010
  HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Older moms are more likely to have a child with autism than women who give birth at a younger age, new research shows. […]
• Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (AP) February 8, 2010
  AP - A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found. […]
• Children Raised by Lesbians Do Just Fine, Studies Show (LiveScience.com) February 8, 2010
  LiveScience.com - Children raised by lesbian parents fare as well as they would in heterosexual households, new research suggests. […]
• Sugary soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer: study (AFP) February 8, 2010
  AFP - People who drink at least two sugary soft drinks a day have an increased risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, a study published Monday shows. […]
• UK's Brown vows more cancer care as race heats up (AP) February 8, 2010
  AP - You know an election is coming when British politicians suddenly promise sweeping improvements to the National Health Service, a simultaneous source of national pride and worry. […]
• China finds 170 more tons of tainted milk powder (AP) February 8, 2010
  AP - The discovery has punched a 170-ton hole in China's promises to overhaul its food safety system. Officials say they've found yet another case where large amounts of tainted milk powder from the country's 2008 scandal that should have been destroyed were instead repackaged. […]
• For obese, vaccine needle size matters (Reuters) February 8, 2010
  Reuters - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. […]
• Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears (AP) February 8, 2010
  AP - High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday. […]