Tom Heston

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Scientists in China have demonstrated how arsenic — a favorite murder weapon in the Middle Ages — destroys deadly blood cancer by targeting and killing specific proteins that keep the cancer alive.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s historic St Vincent’s Hospital, which is days away from closing under a crushing burden of debt, would get a second chance as a place to treat walk-in patients needing “urgent care” under Governor David Paterson’s latest proposal.

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LONDON (Reuters) – Donor money for health care in developing countries could be spent more effectively if it were channeled through a single global fund, experts said Friday.

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