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  <title><![CDATA[Next-Generation Cancer Facilities, with $200 Million Price Tag, Gain Traction]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Proton beam facilities can cost over $200 million, a price few medical centers are willing to pay. But with the help of investors and a growing body of research that points to better patient outcomes, the technology is starting to take hold and will soon be on track to be the status quo in radiation oncology.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:51:13 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Female Child Abuse Victims More Likely to Develop Heart Disease, Stroke]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A public health expert says if pediatricians help their patients maintain a healthy weight and abstain from smoking early in life, fewer of them will develop heart problems as adults.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:20:39 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Government to Use Social Media to Predict 'Societal Events']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Computational intelligence is a growing field that may help government agencies predict riots and protests, and help corporations predict how well products will sell.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:10:49 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Powerful Pee: Scientists Build a Urine-Powered Fuel Cell]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Pee-powered fuel cell generated enough electricity to power a hearing aid, researchers found.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:27:03 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Heart Doctors Leave Clinics for Hospitals due to Medicare Cuts]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Heart doctors across the U.S. are closing up independent practices and migrating to large medical centers, forcing patients to travel farther and pay more for their care, because of reduction in Medicare slashed reimbursements, experts say.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:45:29 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Malaria-Resistance Solved Decades after First Identified, Study Shows]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Malaria-resistant people have mutated red blood cells that resist the parasite&#039;s ability to steal that necessary cellular scaffold, according to research published Thursday in the online edition of Science, uncovering a puzzle years in the making.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/247220/20111110/malaria-resistance-solved-decades-identified-study-shows.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:35:53 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scientists Uncover Secrets of Tropical 'Time Bomb' Illness]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Tropical bacteria produces a previously-unknown toxin that shuts down its hosts years, sometimes decades, later, researchers found.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:22:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Wrong-Site Surgeries Persist, Despite Hospital Safety Measures]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Nearly half of neurosurgeons surveyed admitted to performing at least one wrong-site surgery in their career, according to study.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:17:53 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Balloons Sniff For Signs of Terrorism]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Devices help researchers track spread of crop diseases.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:25:27 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Acting Out During Dreams May Signal Future Nerve Disorders]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Physically acting out dreams, also known as rapid eye movement behavior disorder (RBD), develops into degenerative nerve disorders in 40 to 65 percent of patients, such as Parkinson&#039;s disease, researchers found.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:34:52 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Panel to Advise Mandatory Flu Shots for Hospital Workers]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Draft recommendations shoot for 90 percent vaccination rate by 2020.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:21:36 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Breakthrough Discoveries Mostly by Older Scientists, Study Finds]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[To win the Nobel Prize takes scientists years longer than a century ago.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:31:57 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Survey Finds Cheating Among Students at All GPA Levels]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Many students surveyed justify cheating by saying that &quot;everyone cheats,&quot; survey finds.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:08:20 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scientists Crack Code of Pigeonpea, Drought-Resistant Crop]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Pigeonpea - a minor agricultural crop more common in rural backyards than plowed fields, reached a milestone Sunday when Indian and Chinese researchers announced the decoding of the plant&#039;s genome.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:26:41 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hospital Smoking Bans Fail to Address Underlying Problem]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Addiction treatment would improve patient safety, researchers noted in survey.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:30:28 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Twitter to Track Disease Outbreaks]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Public health officials could use social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to track contagious diseases, according to research published Tuesday.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/243568/20111104/twitter-track-disease-outbreaks.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:56:50 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[New Sunscreens May Interfere With Skin’s Natural Sun Defense]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Researchers discover that the skin &quot;sees&quot; UV light.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/243063/20111103/sunscreen-eyes-brown-university-skin-cancer.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/243063/20111103/sunscreen-eyes-brown-university-skin-cancer.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:54:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Water Flowed Beneath Mars Surface, New Evidence]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Water on Mars increases the chances that life existed on the red planet.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/242833/20111103/water-flowed-beneath-mars-surface-new-evidence.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:49:29 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nurses Join “Occupy” Protests, Despite Above-Average Wages]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Hospital association says strikes harm patients.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/242240/20111102/nurses-join-occupy-protests-despite-average-wages.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/242240/20111102/nurses-join-occupy-protests-despite-average-wages.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:36:57 EDT</pubDate>
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