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Tests may help end 'bubble boy' disease
Jan 15 2007 6:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Doctors were stumped. Tests for meningitis, cancer, a list of other diseases all were negative _ yet just days after a sudden high fever sent 8-week-old Anthony James Mingione to the hospital, he died. An autopsy uncovered the lethal secret: Anthony was born without a working immune system. A rare genetic disorder known as the "bubble boy disease" rendered him vulnerable to the most minor of germs.
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Cause of amnesia halts future thinking
Jan 15 2007 6:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - "The future is now," football coach George Allen once proclaimed. He didn't know it, but that seems to be quite literally true for people with amnesia.
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World's 1st 'test-tube' baby gives birth
Jan 15 2007 6:45PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Louise Brown, who was the world's first "test-tube" baby, has given birth to her first child. Cameron John Mullinder was born Dec. 21 in the western English city of Bristol, reports said.
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Study links gene to Alzheimer's risk
Jan 15 2007 6:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A huge international study has identified a gene that apparently can raise the risk of developing the most common form of Alzheimer's disease, a discovery that may help scientists develop new treatments.
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Japan starts incinerating chickens
Jan 15 2007 8:35AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese authorities on Monday began incinerating more than 10,000 chickens that have either died of bird flu at a southern Japanese poultry farm recently or culled there, officials said.
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Thai officials find bird flu in ducks
Jan 15 2007 5:58AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A new outbreak of virulent bird flu was found in ducks in northern Thailand, officials said Monday, the first such case in six months.
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