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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Your blood type might affect your risk for stroke. People with AB and women with B were a little more likely to suffer one than people with O blood - the most common type, a study found....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A study finds that offering people free medicines after a heart attack can help cut the chances they will suffer another one.

It also saves them about $500 for health care over the next year without raising costs for insurers....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- People recovering from a heart attack or severe chest pain are much less likely to suffer another heart-related problem or to die from one if they take a new blood-thinning drug along with standard anti-clotting medicines, a large study finds....

(American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine) The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine recently hosted Ultrasound Practice Forum: Point-of-Care Use of Ultrasound on Nov. 8 in Orlando, Fla.

This ground-breaking conference brought together a cross section of the ultrasound community, drawing representatives from 46 medical and other health-related societies to explore professional issues related to emerging point-of-care ultrasound technologies.

(PR on Call) Onconova Therapeutics announces its late-stage anticancer agent, Estybon (ON 01910.Na), will be featured in three presentations at the 52nd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla., Dec. 4-7, 2010.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure.

It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a permanent treatment....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- New research finds that people who had radiation treatments for cancer as children are less likely than the general public or even their healthy siblings to get recommended screening tests....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Researchers are reporting their first big successes in getting the immune system to fight cancer, after 30 years of false starts....