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Sunday, 7 December 2008 at 4:19 pm Posted by smp

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Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 03:51 PM CST

AP - Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary.

Obama pledges not to smoke in White House (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 11:47 AM CST

In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press,' President-elect Barack Obama appears during a taping of 'Meet the Press'' Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, in Chicago. The interview was broadcast Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong)AP - Barack Obama says you won't catch him lighting up a cigarette in the smoke-free White House.

Youthfulness an American obsession - at what cost? (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 06:49 AM CST

In this undated photo released by Cenegenics Medical Institute on Oct. 8, 2008, is Dr. Jeffry Life when he was 67, after being on the Cenegenics program for about two years. Life, the chief medical officer at Cenegenics, will be 70 this Christmas day. (AP Photo/Cenegenics Medical Institute)AP - It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.

UNICEF fears 60,000 possible cholera cases in Zimbabwe (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 05:37 PM CST

A man pushes his relative in a wheelbarrow to a cholera clinic in Harare. The head of the UN Children's Fund in Zimbabwe told the BBC on Sunday he feared a possible 60,000 cholera cases in the coming weeks.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - The head of the UN Children's Fund in Zimbabwe told the BBC on Sunday he feared a possible 60,000 cholera cases in the coming weeks.

Compound lights up spreading cancer cells (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 04:05 PM CST

Reuters - A new type of imaging compound can literally light up spreading cancer cells and may offer a way to track the deadly spread of the disease, Japanese and U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

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