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  <title><![CDATA[Californian Granny, 80, Survives Terrifying Skydiving Death Plunge [VIDEO]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Reluctant pensioner Laverne hangs by her harness after a tandem dive goes wrong.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:06:29 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[MIT Researchers Develop Needle-Less, Painless Way To Inject Drugs (At The Speed Of Sound, No Less)]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[MIT researchers unveiled a prototype device this week that uses a new way to administer drugs, replacing the common needle with a tiny, highly-controllable jet injector, which sends a high-pressured stream directly into the skin.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Senate Passes Bipartisan FDA Funding Bill]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near-unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a regulatory powerhouse with sweeping influence over the foods Americans eat and the medicines they take. The bill, which passed by a vote of 96 to 1, aims to speed approval of new drugs and devices and ensure food safety.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 08:54:05 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tafamidis: US Panel Split On Pfizer Rare Disease Drug]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A U.S. health advisory panel on Thursday issued a split vote on data for Pfizer Inc&#039;s drug to treat a rare neurodegenerative disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel voted 13 to 4 that the drug did not show that it met the main goal in a study in treating the fatal condition.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 08:49:18 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Overweight Welsh Teenager Georgia Davis Cut from Home in Medical Emergency]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Welsh teenager Georgia Davis, who weighs 63st, had to be cut free from family home by emergency services to receive urgent medical treatment.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345357/20120525/overweight-welsh-teenager-georgia-davis-cut-home.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:03:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fatkinis: Sexy Snaps of Fat Women in Skimpy Swimwear is Online Hit]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Real woman post in their &#039;Fatkinis&#039; in protest against society&#039;s obsession with super-slim summer bodies]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345346/20120525/sexy-snaps-fat-women-skimpy-swimwear-online.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:33:03 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Battle On International Family Planning Looms As Senate Panel Repeals 'Global Gag Rule']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The gag rule, which bans funding for non-profits that provide information about abortion services, has had a shaky history since it was enacted by the Reagan administration in 1984.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345140/20120524/senate-repeals-global-gag-rule-abortion-family.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:20:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Baby in Washing Machine: Toddler’s Mom Wants Babysitter in Jail]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The mother of a toddler who was videotaped being put inside a washing machine, has spoken out against her baby sitter, saying she should be &quot;punished and put in jail&quot;]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:19:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Polio Remains Endemic in Nigeria, Pakistan And Afghanistan: Health Officials]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[GPEI warned that failure to eradicate polio could lead to as many as 200,000 paralyzed children a year across the globe.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:04:01 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ben Fogle Admits Fear before 3,000 Mile Atlantic Swim]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[TV presenter Ben Fogle has admitted being scared of solitude and loneliness as he begins his training for a 3,000 mile swim from the US to Cornwall next year.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345018/20120524/ben-fogle-admits-fear-before-3-000.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:59:54 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tasers Can Kill, Says American Heart Association [STUDY]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Roughly 16,000 police agencies around the world use Tasers, the electroshock weapons that send electrical currents to disrupt voluntary control over one&#039;s muscles, but law enforcement officers only prefer Tasers because they can subdue unruly people in a non-lethal, non-violent way.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:48:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why Are Men Attracted To ‘Dumb’ Women? 88 Common Traits Rated As Attractive By Men [STUDY]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[It turns out that men aren’t looking for beauty with brains when it comes to finding a woman. A new study says that traits such as stupidity, drunkenness, and sleepiness have been rated as attractive.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:32:35 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Child Addicts At Heart Of Indonesia Anti-Smoking Lawsuit]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:43:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stevia: Miracle Sweetener May Have A Sour Note]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The meteoric rise of a natural, healthy alternative to sugar - a holy grail for the food industry - might just be a little too good to be true. In two years stevia, a plant used for centuries by Paraguay&#039;s Guarani Indians, has shot to prominence in products by Coca-Cola, Danone and Merisant.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344955/20120524/stevia-miracle-sweetener-sour-note.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:29:19 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Epic Parenting Fail at a Laundromat: YouTube Video goes Viral]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A video which shows a babysitter and her boyfriend placing a toddler in a tumble-dryer and panicking as it automatically begins a cycle.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344830/20120524/epic-parenting-fail-laundromat-youtube-video-goes.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:12:14 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australia Vows to Defeat WTO Challenges on its Anti-Smoking Policy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Australian government vowed to repeal efforts by giant tobacco firms to frustrate its aim of further limiting the flow of cigarette products in the country.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344731/20120523/australia-vows-defeat-wto-challenges-anti-smoking.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 23:45:08 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Rising Tide of Autism]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Autism was once thought to be a psychological disorder because of the lack of eye contact that is hallmark in the child with autism.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344712/20120523/rising-tide-autism-ibtimesau-ibtimes-com-au.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 22:12:57 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Everyday Tasks can Encourage Creativity in Advanced Dementia Patients]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The simple art of folding a bed sheet could encourage the creativity of people living with advanced dementia, researchers have found.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344708/20120523/everyday-tasks-encourage-creativity-advanced-dementia-patients.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 22:06:03 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Levels of Dementia Underestimated in Developing Countries]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Conventional estimates of dementia incidence in middle-income countries have been too optimistic, suggests one of the largest studies of dementia incidence to date, led by researchers at King&#039;s College London&#039;s Institute of Psychiatry and published online in The Lancet today.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 22:03:22 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rio Environmental Summit To Focus On Global Food Security Issues]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[As soils, freshwater, oceans, forests and biodiversity are being rapidly degraded and climate change puts more pressure on the resources, it is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344641/20120523/rio-food-security-summit-agriculture-poverty-farms.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:12:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Many 'Pro-Life' Americans Support Legal Abortion Rights, As 'Pro-Choice' Group Reaches Record Low]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A record-low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as &quot;pro-choice&quot; when it comes to abortion rights, according to Gallup.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344592/20120523/abortion-poll-less-americans-pro-life-gallup.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:56:09 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344463/20120523/scientists-skin-cells-beating-heart-muscle-study.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:41:51 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Parents Beware: Your Smoking Habit Brings Harm to Your Children]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Passive smoking has been blamed by medical experts for the deaths of more than half-a-million around the world and soon enough a big number of the fatalities could include individuals who were inadvertently exposed to second-hand smoke their parents when they were young.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344251/20120523/parents-beware-smoking-habit-brings-harm-children.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:37:30 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[FDA Researchers's Discovery Throws Light to Reasons of Drug-Related Autoimmune Reactions]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[FDA researchers inching towards identifying the reasons of drug-related autoimmune reactions.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344229/20120523/fda-researchers-discover-autoimmune-mechanism-serious-drug.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 01:30:36 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Airlines See Profits in Shipping Animals in Cargo Holds]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[From pandas to thoroughbreds, flying animals and wildlife is big business. But there is a dark side.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344171/20120522/airlines-see-profits-shipping-animals-ibtimesau-ibtimes.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:38:03 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[New Musical Pacifier Plays Lullaby While Babies Suck]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The device could help premature babies learn how to feed.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344166/20120522/new-musical-pacifier-plays-lullaby-babies-suck.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:25:42 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[House Republicans In GOP Women's Caucus Consistently Vote Against Women's Equality, Health]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Republicans in the recently formed Women&#039;s Policy Alliance don&#039;t actually support legislation intended to aid women.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344148/20120522/republican-women-s-caucus-members-vote-against.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:39:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sick Americans Extremely Concerned About Cost, Quality of Health Care: Poll]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In addition to sick Americans, more than 80 percent of the general public said health-care costs are exorbitant.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:40 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Monsanto Maize: EU Blocks France Ban On MON 810 "Yieldgard"]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Days after France attempted to ban a genetically-modified strain of maize created by the controversial agricultural company Monsanto, based in St. Louis, Mo., the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) rejected France&#039;s grounds for banning the maize, even though France believes the corn is harmful to the environment.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:15:12 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Olympics 2012: Ramadan Sets Muslim Athletes Extra Test At London Games]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[When Malaysian cyclist Azizulhasni Awang opted to postpone his Ramadan fast until after the London Games, the decision was all about going for Olympic gold. Anything that might jeopardize the chance of a medal for the 24-year-old at his second Olympics had to be dealt with sensibly, he says.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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