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This photo shows a pregnant Cambodian mother-to-be with tobacco stained teeth. In Cambodia, expecting mothers reach for a very unlikely source to cure morning sickness: a wad of chewing tobacco.

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WHEN pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.

AMD LASERS has announced that Dr. James Jesse has accepted the position of medical director.

They come in droves carrying bags and cardboard boxes lugging pots and pans, discarded crates and empty strollers.

If there's a lesson to be learned from the H1N1 influenza virus, it is that the nation's vaccine production must be modernized, a top public-health official said here Monday.

From the Departments of Physiology and Neurosurgery , Loma Linda University of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif.

Shortages of doses, coupled with possible safety concerns, have made vaccination for swine flu more difficult than expected, some Southern California public health providers said Monday.

Surveillance cameras monitoring traffic-signal compliance at four intersections in Loma Linda for the past four years have been a slightly-less-smashing success.

The Leonid meteor shower makes its annual appearance tonight, and it's expected to be mediocre at best.

The Vatican's November 2009 astrobiology conference emphasized science much more than theology .

The family of a 14-year-old patient at Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center picketed the facility Thursday with the hope to draw attention to the whereabouts of their daughter.

AP Photo/ Agostini George Clooney, who is often pictured as a somber man, is laughing a lot these days.

The parent company of Loma Linda University Medical Center and EPIC Management LP, a Redlands-based physician group management company, have reached a preliminary agreement to form a collaborative healthcare system stretching from Rancho Cucamonga to Beaumont.

Guests can play golf and tennis, take walks, run, swim and work out in the gym, or just go sightseeing.

Can pretending to ride the subway, leaning into the turns and toppling fellow passengers, relieve stress? Apparently, if the conductor is a certified laughter leader and the strap-hangers are willing to force a few laughs.

A boost of a highly targeted form of radiation therapy may prevent prostate cancer from coming back, a study of nearly 400 men suggests.

Researchers and regulators are focusing what some say is unprecedented attention on a low-income, predominately Hispanic community of about 7,000 people living with pollution from a west San Bernardino rail yard.

The mother of Baby Fae, the infant who drew worldwide attention in 1984 when Loma Linda University Medical Center surgeons replaced her defective heart with one from a baboon, called the doctor who headed the medical team courageous for his groundbreaking work.

There may be some truth to the saying that all women will eventually turn into their mothers, with a US study finding daughters age and wrinkle like their mothers.