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Study: 7 percent of workers drink on job
Jan 10 2006 10:59PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Just over 7 percent of American workers drink during the workday _ mostly at lunch _ and even more, 9 percent, have nursed a hangover in the workplace, according to a study.
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New study links obesity, heart problems
Jan 10 2006 10:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Middle-age people who are overweight but have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels are kidding themselves if they think their health is just fine.
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Turkey scrambles to stop bird flu outbreak
Jan 10 2006 9:38PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey raced to contain an outbreak of bird flu Tuesday, destroying 300,000 fowl and blaring warnings from mosque loudspeakers, after preliminary tests showed at least 15 people have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain.
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Girl gets bird flu after kissing chicken
Jan 10 2006 8:52PM (CT)
VAN, Turkey (AP) - Sumeyya Mamuk considered the chickens in her backyard to be beloved pets. The 8-year-old girl fed them, petted them and took care of them. When they started to get sick and die, she hugged them and tenderly kissed them goodbye.
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Advocates hold out hope for stem cells
Jan 10 2006 7:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Having spent 23 years in a wheelchair, Wall Street analyst Henry Stifel keeps a close eye on spinal cord research. And he says the latest scientific scandal in South Korea has not dimmed his hope that stem cells may one day help people like him.
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Doctors upbeat after Iraqi baby's surgery
Jan 10 2006 7:04PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Iraqi infant known as Baby Noor was "doing great" after surgery to treat a birth defect, and she might not need a second operation, her doctor said Tuesday.
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Face transplant patient gets more feeling
Jan 10 2006 12:35PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - The French woman who received the world's first partial face transplant is steadily regaining sensation in her new nose, chin and lips, and is "very happy," her psychiatrist said Tuesday.
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Docs test new radiation for breast cancer
Jan 10 2006 9:47AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Radiation may get a little easier for thousands of breast cancer patients: Doctors now can target cancer-killing beams just at the tumor site instead of the whole breast, cutting the usual six-week treatment down to five days.
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Doctors: OTC cough syrups not effective
Jan 10 2006 9:47AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Despite the billions of dollars spent every year in this country on over-the-counter cough syrups, most such medicines do little if anything to relieve coughs, the nation's chest physicians say.
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Medically induced coma helps brain recover
Jan 10 2006 3:24AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Medically induced coma, performed on critically ill patients from the prime minister of Israel to a coal miner in West Virginia, has been used for a quarter of a century or more to put the brain in hibernation so it can recuperate.
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Health care inflation slowed in 2004
Jan 10 2006 12:27AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Spending on health care grew at a rate of 7.9 percent in 2004, the lowest overall increase since 2000, largely because of a shift by many people to cheaper generic drugs, according to a study.
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