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Brain cancer

Fish oil cuts heart attack risk, vitamin D lowers odds of cancer death

By Reuters

The results were reported Saturday at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions meeting in Chicago and online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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    1929 days ago
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