NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Listening to half an hour of music each day may significantly lower your blood pressure, according to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in New Orleans this week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials issued an alert on Friday about the risk of first-trimester miscarriages and birth defects from Novartis AG and Roche Holding AG transplant drugs.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Brandon Webb maintained his unbeaten record to become Major League Baseball’s first nine-game winner this season when he pitched the Arizona Diamondbacks to an 8-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Cleveland Cavaliers will be without guard Daniel Gibson in Friday’s Game Six showdown against the visiting Boston Celtics due to a separated shoulder, the team said on its Web site (www.nba.com/cavaliers).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breast cancer patients who get newer scans called magnetic resonance imaging are more likely to opt for mastectomies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. cable television industry is feeling more confident going into this year’s Cable Show in New Orleans, with the transition to digital television expected to pay dividends for cable operators.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Colombian pop singer Shakira is using her fame to help poor Latin American children, but she also has her heart set on a new role — mother to her own offspring.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - The director of a powerful film about the final days of Bobby Sands said he had not made a hero of the IRA prisoner whose death in a 1981 hunger strike made him one of the most prominent symbols of opposition to British rule in Northern Ireland.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Just 5 percent of U.S. cancer survivors are meeting experts’ recommendations on diet, physical activity and cigarette smoking, a new survey shows.
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CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Do we have the right to caricature God? This and other questions involving religion and freedom of speech raised by the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed are examined by “It’s Tough Being Loved by Jerks.”
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HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria (Reuters) - Monks in Austria hailed a “miracle” on Friday as they released an album of Gregorian chants under the same record label as Amy Winehouse and Eminem.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Friday it was scrapping a nuclear reactor project designed to produce medical radioisotopes, a move that means half the world’s supply will be made by a 50-year-old reactor that was temporarily shut down for safety reasons last year.
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ROME (Reuters) - American Venus Williams lost 5-7 6-2 6-3 to Serb title holder Jelena Jankovic in the Italian Open quarter-finals on Friday while her sister Serena pulled out at the same stage of the tournament with a back injury.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc’s “Grand Theft Auto 4″ and Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii console stole the show.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breast cancer patients with lower levels of vitamin D were far more likely to die and far more likely to have their cancer spread than women with normal levels, Canadian researchers reported on Thursday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children who survive cancer while they are young are five to 10 times more likely than their healthy siblings to develop heart disease, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - One of five defendants charged with the death of Washington Redskins NFL footballer Sean Taylor faces a 29-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to second degree murder and armed burglary.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Embattled Yahoo Inc has struck an advertising partnership deal with WPP Group that will let WPP buy ads on Yahoo’s online ad exchange, the companies said late on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anorexic women with a history of childhood anxiety may have particularly severe symptoms of the eating disorder, a study suggests.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has provided China with satellite images of earthquake-stricken areas, and will provide two planeloads of relief for quake victims this weekend, the State Department said on Friday.
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WHITE PLAINS, New York (Reuters) - Former U.S. Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months in prison on Friday for his role in a check fraud scheme, part of a spectacular fall for the onetime world’s fastest man.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donna Summer was dubbed “The Queen of Disco” after a series of hit singles in the 1970s: now the singer pokes fun at that title in a new song included in her first studio album in 17 years.
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CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda” makes perfect sense.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Philadelphia Flyers scored three first-period goals in a 4-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday, the win keeping the home team alive in their Eastern Conference finals.
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HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Holder Roger Federer scored a comfortable 6-3 6-3 win over unseeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the quarter-finals of the Hamburg Masters on Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 3M Co and Sony Corp have agreed to a licensing deal that gives Sony the right to use certain 3M optical film technologies for use in LCD television products, the companies said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors suing Yahoo Inc over its rebuff of Microsoft Corp’s $47.5 billion buyout bid have filed a new case that adds company co-founder David Filo as a defendant, but they say much of their complaint is being kept under seal at Yahoo’s demand.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Big is not necessarily better for the highly anticipated “Sex and the City” movie, which reaches theaters on May 30.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A talking lion is expected to devour Marvel superhero “Iron Man” at the North American box office this weekend, as Walt Disney Co. opens its much-anticipated fantasy sequel “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.”
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Five players were tied on six under par after a rain-affected, first round at the Atlanta Classic on Thursday.
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ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - A free hotline for patients to report serious medical side effects should be mentioned in television commercials and also needs to be more widely promoted on pill bottles and pharmacy packaging, U.S. health experts said on Friday.
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QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Russia defeated Finland 4-0 on Friday to reach the final of the hockey world championship for only the second time since 1993.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Grapes, apples and their juices can prevent the development of atherosclerosis in hamsters eating a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, French researchers have found.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The San Antonio Spurs crushed the New Orleans Hornets 99-80 on Thursday to force a deciding Game Seven in their Western Conference semi-final.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Actor Hugh Grant, his ex girlfriend Liz Hurley and her new husband won thousands of pounds (dollars) in damages on Thursday after paparazzi pictures taken while they were on holiday were published in tabloid newspapers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Blocking parts of the nervous system that regulate body temperature can reduce hot flashes and improve sleep in survivors of breast cancer, researchers reported on Thursday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has introduced a software development tool that lets outside parties create customized views of Yahoo Web search results, the company said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fox Broadcasting on Thursday rolled out a fall television schedule that adds a science-fiction thriller from one of TV’s hottest producers, and a workplace comedy, to a lineup that is already tops with viewers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High-doses of cholesterol-lowering statins that are “lipophilic” — meaning they are soluble in fats — may offer protection against cancer, according to a new study that found a significant reduction in the incidence of cancer in users of these statins.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The Milwaukee Brewers have signed left fielder Ryan Braun to an eight year $45 million contract, the team said on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Self-proclaimed “private eye to the stars” Anthony Pellicano was found guilty on Thursday of racketeering and conspiracy for wiretapping foes of his high-powered Hollywood clients.
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BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The only question surrounding Saturday’s Preakness Stakes appears to be the margin of victory for unbeaten and untested Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown.
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ROME (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova battled past Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki to move into the Italian Open quarter-finals with a 6-4 7-6 win on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Legendary Hollywood publicist Warren Cowan, whose clients included Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, died at age 87 after a fight with cancer, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The new technology which enables small payments from mobile phones by just flashing the handset is likely to reach masses only around 2012, when one phone from five sold will be equipped with the technology.