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Merck lobbies states over cancer vaccine
Jan 30 2007 10:59PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Merck & Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker's new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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Raw cougar meat blamed for trichinosis
Jan 30 2007 7:21PM (CT)
WHITE SALMON, Wash. (AP) - Raw cougar meat, eaten by a deer hunter who found himself being stalked, is the apparent source of Washington state's first case of trichinosis since 2001, a health official says.
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LA to urge restaurants to ban trans fats
Jan 30 2007 7:15PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Restaurants will be urged to voluntarily phase out trans fats from kitchens over the next 18 months under a plan unveiled by city and county leaders Tuesday.
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FDA warns obesity doctor over implants
Jan 30 2007 7:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Los Angeles-area doctor who lent his name to a type of stomach-shrinking surgery failed to obtain the full informed consent of 175 patients implanted with an experimental medical device, according to a federal warning letter released Tuesday.
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Zumba taking hold as aerobics workout
Jan 30 2007 7:08PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - The security guards at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were more than a little curious. A package-delivery truck sitting on the edge of a base parking lot was shaking violently. Warily approaching, the MPs found 35-year-old driver Doug Jones inside _ shirtless, sweating and exercising to Latin music pulsing through the vehicle. Jones, on his lunch hour, was practicing Zumba _ a brassy, high-octane, Colombian-born dance-aerobics workout that he teaches.
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FDA proposes report cards on new drugs
Jan 30 2007 6:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The public outcry over the withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx is leading to closer government scrutiny of new drugs to identify and disclose late-developing safety problems.
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Chile to resume contraception handout
Jan 30 2007 6:54PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The government on Tuesday said it will resume its program to provide free "morning-after" contraceptives to girls as young as 14, but will also offer them advice by specialists.
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Is using lasers on eye gunk worth it?
Jan 30 2007 6:53PM (CT)
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Some people call them floaters. Eye doctors call them "vitreous opacities." Emily Flynn called hers "a little fuzzball," and she flew halfway around the world to have it removed. After more than 100 pinpoint zaps from a laser beam during a half-hour visit to a northern Virginia office park, the fuzzball was gone, obliterated within the clear, gelatinous goo that fills the eyeball.
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Eiffel Tower to go dark ahead of report
Jan 30 2007 6:46PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - The Eiffel Tower's 20,000 flashing lights will go dark for five minutes Thursday evening, hours before scientists and officials unveil a long-awaited report on global warming.
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