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Analysts: Health care costs to keep rising
Feb 21 2006 11:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Within a decade, an aging America will spend one of every five dollars on health care, according to government analysts who see no end to increases in the cost of going to the doctor and taking medicine.
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Mass. officials probe rise in C-sections
Feb 21 2006 9:40PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Public health officials are puzzling over a medical mystery _ why thousands of young, healthy women facing low risk births are opting instead to deliver by Caesarean section.
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Helmets may help skiers avoid injury
Feb 21 2006 9:35PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Helmets greatly reduce the risk of head injuries among skiers and snowboarders, a Norwegian study found.
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Groups protest carbon monoxide use in meat
Feb 21 2006 9:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Shoppers who judge the freshness of meat by its pink color may be deceived by a relatively new industry practice of treating meat with carbon monoxide, critics say.
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Accutane registry to begin next week
Feb 21 2006 9:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dermatologists are renewing their concerns that efforts to prevent pregnant women from using a drug that can cause birth defects may also keep the drug from patients who need it for severe acne.
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Health experts concerned about bird flu
Feb 21 2006 9:24PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The unprecedented spread of bird flu to 14 more countries in the past three weeks brings the disease closer to millions of people, giving it many more chances to mutate into a global outbreak, international health experts said Tuesday.
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New rules set for obesity surgery coverage
Feb 21 2006 9:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care officials applauded new federal regulations announced Tuesday that provide national standards for Medicare coverage of obesity surgery.
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Panel wants infants to get rotavirus shots
Feb 21 2006 8:12PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An influential federal advisory panel recommended Tuesday that U.S. infants be vaccinated against rotavirus, a common and potentially fatal cause of childhood diarrhea and vomiting.
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Tainted blood case sees not guilty pleas
Feb 21 2006 7:46PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Three Canadian health officials, a U.S. pharmaceutical company and one of its senior American executives pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that their neglect allowed thousands of Canadians to contract HIV through tainted blood.
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Bird flu grounds London's famous ravens
Feb 21 2006 11:22AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The ravens at the Tower of London have been moved indoors to protect them from the threat of bird flu, the man in charge of the birds said Monday.
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Doctors want to find spreading cancer
Feb 21 2006 10:08AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - No one ever checked whether Leslie Bather's breast cancer was spreading to her brain, until the day tumors caused three frightening seizures. MRI scans can help spot when cancer in another part of the body sends seedlings into the brain, but few patients get routine checks.
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