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Health News Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Get the latest health news headlines from Yahoo! News. Find breaking health news, including analysis and opinion on top health stories. Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate falls 22 May 2013 at 12:14am NEW YORK (AP) ? The American Cancer Society ? one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups ? is 100 years old this week. Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury 22 May 2013 at 8:46am WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation 21 May 2013 at 11:58pm PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water. Pfizer to spin off Zoetis stake to shareholders 22 May 2013 at 8:57am (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it will spin off its majority stake in animal health business Zoetis Inc to shareholders by allowing them to swap Pfizer stock for Zoetis shares at a 7 percent discount. Pfizer, the largest U.S. drugmaker, sold Zoetis shares in an initial public offering in February that raised $2.2 billion. Pfizer retained an 80 percent stake in Zoetis after the IPO and now plans to unwind that, starting with this offer. ... More doctors, hospitals using electronic records 22 May 2013 at 7:47am WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration says more doctors and hospitals are embracing technology as adoption of computerized medical records reaches a "tipping point" in America. Life-saving face transplant performed in Poland 22 May 2013 at 7:33am WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? A 33-year-old Polish man received a life-saving total face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest timeframe to date for such an operation. Synthetic Peas Soothe Achy Joints 22 May 2013 at 6:56am Sir Isaac Newton found his inspiration in an apple.  MaryCarol Dolivier found hers in a bag of frozen peas. After Dolivier tumbled down a flight of stairs a few years ago she was forced to lay on the couch for several weeks, a bag of...         Oncolytics cancer drug meets mid-stage trial goal, shares rise 22 May 2013 at 6:46am (Reuters) - Oncolytics Biotech Inc said preliminary data from a mid-stage trial showed that its cancer drug, Reolysin, met the main goal of reducing the size of tumors in patients with metastatic melanoma, a type of skin cancer. Shares of the Calgary-based company rose as much as 11 percent to C$3.14 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Its Nasdaq-listed shares were up 10 percent. ... Swiss billionaires buy Merck Serono HQ for biotech campus 22 May 2013 at 6:43am By Caroline Copley ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli has bought back the Geneva headquarters of his former biotech firm Serono, hoping to establish a biotech research campus. After selling the family business to German drugmaker Merck KGaA for $13.3 billion in 2006, the Harvard Business School graduate went on to win the America's Cup sailing prize for the second time. He and his former beauty queen wife Kirsty cut a high profile among the Swiss jet-set. ... U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for new antibiotics 22 May 2013 at 6:30am By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has signed an antibiotics development deal worth up to $200 million with GlaxoSmithKline to tackle the dual threats of drug resistance and bioterrorism. The collaboration, the first of its kind between Washington and a drug company, will allow funding to move around GSK's antibiotics portfolio rather than focusing on a single drug candidate. ... When it comes to deadly viruses, what's in a name? 22 May 2013 at 5:54am By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - For a pathogen with such a short history, the mysterious new virus killing people in the Middle East and Europe has already had an amazing array of names. It first surfaced last year as "human betacoronavirus 2c EMC", but the suffixes "2c England-Qatar, "2C Jordan-N3", "England 1" have also appeared and many scientists have resorted to "novel coronavirus" - new crown-shaped virus - instead. ... Google CEO s Condition Spotlights Vocal Cord Paralysis and Its Treatment 22 May 2013 at 4:30am Google CEO s Condition Spotlights Vocal Cord Paralysis and Its Treatment Prolonging the buzz with Grandma 22 May 2013 at 4:28am Prolonging the buzz with Grandma Los Angeles voters OK move to curtail medical marijuana outlets 22 May 2013 at 3:54am By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Voters strongly supported a ballot measure to sharply curtail the number of medical marijuana dispensaries permitted to operate in Los Angeles while boosting taxes on the sale of pot for health reasons, election returns early on Wednesday showed. The proposal appeared headed for passage. Returns showed 63 percent of voters supporting it compared with 37 percent opposed, after tabulation of more than 40 percent of ballots cast at polling stations on Tuesday, and all of the mail-in ballots received as of last Friday. ... Immune system cancer drugs tipped to be a $35 billion market 22 May 2013 at 2:48am By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - A new wave of medicines that tap the power of the immune system to fight cancer could become the biggest drug class in history, with potential sales of $35 billion a year. That bullish sales forecast by analysts at U.S. bank Citigroup highlights the growing excitement surrounding so-called immunotherapy after positive results from clinical trials conducted by companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche Holding. ...