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Breast-cancer survivor: Follow your own heart about mammography...times a year by my doctors. According to the task force report, breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths among U.S. women, after lung cancer, killing 40,480 women in 2008. So the real question, it seems, is... In this article: Breast cancer, Cancer, Surgery, Biopsy, Lung cancer, and U.S. |
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Reuters | 20 hours ago
Cancer of fraud permeates U.S. healthcare system
"Cancer of fraud" permeates U.S. healthcare system Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. "Cancer of fraud" permeates U.S. healthcare system MIAMI (Reuters) - It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in...
In this article: Cancer, Medicare, U.S., Thomson Reuters, Barack Obama, Florida, Small business, Cocaine, and HIV
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CNN | 18 hours ago
Does my orientation boost my risk for rectal cancer?
Any info would be great, as I am hearing that this is on the rise. Cancer of the colon and rectum is the fourth-leading cause of cancer in the U.S. and Western Europe. These cancers are due to family history, diet and reasons unknown. The...
In this article: Cancer, HPV, Anal cancer, CNN, Biopsy, Cervical cancer, Inflammatory bowel disease, American Cancer Society, and Western Europe
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Obesity causes 100,000 US cancer cases, group says
...of esophageal cancer cases, the American Institute for Cancer Research said. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease. The American Cancer Society projects that 1.47 million people will be...
In this article: Cancer, Obesity, American Cancer Society, American Institute for Cancer Research, Esophageal cancer, Endometrial cancer, NYSE, Nasdaq, and Washington
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New Kerala | 7 hours ago
New class of drugs nips cancer growth in the bud
...the tumour's stem cells. Medicinal chemist Jeffrey Smaill and cancer biologist Adam Patterson of the University of Auckland announced the discovery of this new class of anti-cancer drugs in Boston in the US. The drugs are a type of...
In this article: Cancer, Lung cancer, Pancreatic cancer, University of Auckland, Sydney, Boston, and US
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Times Online | 2 days ago
Ex-Thai prime minister Samak Sundaravej dies in Bangkok
...diagnosed with liver cancer a month after being forced from office. He underwent treatment in United States and died in Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok. Yemen Times photographer David Bebber in a nation coping with fallout...
In this article: Samak Sundaravej, Bangkok, Thaksin Shinawatra, Cancer, Thailand, State of emergency, and People Power Party
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New Scientist - Latest Headlines | 1 day ago
US mammogram battles are the start of fights to come
...visit the US national issues and Cancer Topic Guides A political firestorm sparked last week by new US recommendations on breast-cancer screening could be the start of a wider battle. The US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended...
In this article: US, New America Foundation, Cancer, and UK
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BusinessWeek Online | November 17, 2009
America's Greatest Health Threat: Obesity
...Obesity Health News November 17, 2009, 9:00AM EST The U.S. has made huge strides in treating cancer, smoking, and other critical illnesses, but obesity is reaching crisis proportions By Catherine Arnst No matter where you live in...
In this article: Obesity, U.S., Cancer, UnitedHealth Group, and Cardiovascular disease
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Asbury Park Press | 5 days ago
Make health care available to everyone
...be clearly out of reach. With passage of the health care reform bill in the House of Representatives, the U.S. is making unprecedented progress ("Bill Clinton meets with Senate Dems on health reform," Nov. 11.) Cancer patients and their...
In this article: Cancer, American Cancer Society, House of Representatives, Bill Clinton, New Jersey, and U.S.
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 16, 2009
Microsoft co-founder diagnosed with cancer
Microsoft co-founder diagnosed with cancer Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported. Allen, 56, one of the wealthiest men in the...
In this article: Paul Allen, Cancer, Microsoft, Vulcan Inc., Seattle Sounders, B-cell lymphoma, Major League Soccer, Charter Communications, and CNET News
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The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km) and with about 308 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.4 trillion (a quarter of nominal global GDP and a fifth of global GDP at purchasing power parity).
- Name:
- the United States
- Conventional Long Name:
- United States of America
- Capital:
- Washington, D.C.
- Language:
- None at federal level
- English (de facto)
- Motto:
- In God We Trust
- Largest City:
- New York City
- Government type:
- Federal constitutional republic
- Founding Date:
- September 03, 1783
- Formations:
- Recognized
- Area:
- 3794101
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $14.441 trillion
- GDP (per capita PPP) Rank:
- 1st
- GDP (nominal):
- $14.441 trillion
- GDP (nominal per capita) Rank:
- 17th
- GPD (nominal) Rank:
- 1st
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $47,440
- Currency:
- United States dollar ($)
- Demonym:
- American
- Drives On:
- right
- Currency (code):
- USD
- Country Calling Code:
- +1
- ccTLD:
- .us .gov .mil .edu
- Anthem:
- "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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