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Friday, 2 January 2009 at 4:23 pm Posted by smp

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Wallace and Gromit help to fight obesity (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:08 AM CST

A man stands at a bus stop in Manchester in 2006. The government has launched a campaign to fight the nation's expanding waistlines with a cartoon by the Oscar-winning animators of Wallace and Gromit to hammer home the message.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - The government launched a campaign to fight the nation's expanding waistlines on Friday with a cartoon by the Oscar-winning animators of Wallace and Gromit to hammer home the message.

Kids' lungs benefit from longer breast feeding (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 12:34 PM CST

Reuters - Children who are breast fed for at least 4 months may have better lung function than children who are breast fed for shorter periods of time and children who are bottle fed, a new study suggests.

Cough medicine ingredient may treat prostate cancer (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:27 AM CST

Reuters - Noscapine, a natural substance found in cough medicine, may prove useful in treating advanced prostate cancer, according to studies in mice.

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