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Being overweight may raise cancer risk
Feb 14 2008 8:31PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Being obese or even overweight may increase a person's risk of developing up to a dozen different types of cancer, European researchers report in a new study.
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CDC: Death count 82 for 'choking game'
Feb 14 2008 6:30PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad.
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Panama relatives say hundreds poisoned
Feb 14 2008 6:29PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Panama's government has vastly underestimated the number of people who died from taking medications tainted with a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid, family members and a lawyer for the victims said Thursday.
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Paraguay gets yellow fever vaccines
Feb 14 2008 6:28PM (CT)
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - Brazil flew 50,000 doses of yellow fever vaccine into Paraguay on Thursday and Peru promised 250,000 more doses next week, as the government said it was expanding a vaccination campaign against the first outbreak of the disease here in 34 years.
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Study says India has smoking crisis
Feb 14 2008 6:28PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday.
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CDC: Gulf Coast trailers have toxic air
Feb 14 2008 7:43AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.
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