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Child flu deaths have schools worried
Feb 16 2007 9:04PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness.
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Calcium, vitamin D cut stress fractures
Feb 16 2007 9:04PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Very active young women who took higher-than-recommended doses of calcium and vitamin D supplements for eight weeks had fewer stress fractures than women who were given dummy pills, a study of Naval recruits showed.
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Texas lawmakers seek HPV brochure
Feb 16 2007 9:02PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As lawmakers prepare to debate an override of the governor's order that schoolgirls be inoculated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a group of legislators wants the state to produce a brochure about the vaccine.
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Texas lawmakers seek HPV brochure
Feb 16 2007 9:02PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As lawmakers prepare to debate an override of the governor's order that schoolgirls be inoculated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a group of legislators wants the state to produce a brochure about the vaccine.
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Study: Office desks havens for bacteria
Feb 16 2007 9:02PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers', a new research report shows.
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Fish during pregnancy may boost kids' IQ
Feb 16 2007 9:00PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Women who eat seafood while pregnant may be boosting their children's IQ in the process, according to new research published Friday in The Lancet. The results of the study were surprising, say the authors, and contradict American and British recommendations that pregnant women should limit seafood and fish consumption to avoid potentially high levels of mercury.
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Heart disease more common in W.Va., Ky.
Feb 16 2007 8:03PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - West Virginia and Kentucky _ states known for high levels of obesity, diabetes and smoking _ have the highest proportion of people with heart disease in the nation, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
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Lying to doctor can mean health risks
Feb 16 2007 7:43PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie. They lie about how much they smoke and whether they're taking their medicine. They understate how much they drink and overstate how much they exercise. They feign symptoms to get appointments quicker and ask doctors to hide the truth from insurance companies.
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FDA warns consumers of online drug scam
Feb 16 2007 7:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumers who thought they were purchasing sleep aids, antidepressants and other drugs over the Internet instead were shipped a powerful anti-psychotic, sending some unwitting victims to the emergency room, federal health officials warned Friday.
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Indonesia to trade flu virus for vaccine
Feb 16 2007 1:05PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia agreed to resume sharing its bird flu virus with the World Health Organization Friday under condition that developing countries will have equal access to an affordable vaccine, officials from both sides said.
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CDC tracks peanut butter contamination
Feb 16 2007 11:57AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Government scientists struggled to pinpoint the source of the first U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, the kid favorite packed into millions of lunchboxes every day.
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CDC tracks peanut butter contamination
Feb 16 2007 11:57AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Government scientists struggled to pinpoint the source of the first U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, the kid favorite packed into millions of lunchboxes every day.
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Roche seeks OK for child dose of Tamiflu
Feb 16 2007 8:12AM (CT)
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG said Friday it is seeking approval for smaller child-sized capsules of Tamiflu, the medicine many governments have been stockpiling as an initial defense against a pandemic that might result from the bird flu virus.
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