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Hormone use linked to cancer risks
Mar 4 2008 11:06PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The first follow-up of a landmark study of hormone use after menopause shows heart problems linked with the pills seem to fade after women stop taking them, while surprising new cancer risks appear.
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Woman gives birth to identical triplets
Mar 4 2008 11:05PM (CT)
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first press conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now. The identical triplets were born last Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital _ an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births.
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Woman gives birth to identical triplets
Mar 4 2008 11:05PM (CT)
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first press conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now. The identical triplets were born last Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital _ an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births.
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Woman gives birth to identical triplets
Mar 4 2008 11:05PM (CT)
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first press conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now. The identical triplets were born last Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital _ an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births.
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Woman gives birth to identical triplets
Mar 4 2008 11:05PM (CT)
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first press conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now. The identical triplets were born last Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital _ an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births.
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Brand-name drug prices continue to grow
Mar 4 2008 7:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Drug makers increased their prices last year by an average of 7.4 percent for brand-name medicines most commonly prescribed to the elderly, according to the advocacy group AARP.
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Group: Better access to pain meds needed
Mar 4 2008 7:03PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Many people, especially those in developing countries, needlessly suffer during childbirth or cancer because of insufficient painkiller use, a global watchdog said Wednesday.
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Flat growths may be worse than polyps
Mar 4 2008 5:19PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Flat growths on the colon wall are more common in Americans than previously thought and more likely to be cancerous than the more familiar knobby masses known as polyps, a new study finds.
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Problems hamper sickle cell treatment
Mar 4 2008 5:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The news is grim: Ten years after government approval of the first sickle cell treatment, only a tiny fraction of patients use the drug _ despite new research showing the disease is far more painful than doctors ever suspected.
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Some experts doubt obesity epidemic
Mar 4 2008 5:15PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Go on, have another doughnut. According to some experts whose views are public health heresy, the jury is still out on how dangerous it is to be fat. "The obesity epidemic has absolutely been exaggerated," said Dr. Vincent Marks, emeritus professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Surrey.
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CDC warns of safety problems at clinics
Mar 4 2008 4:51AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An outbreak of hepatitis C at a Nevada clinic may represent "the tip of an iceberg" of safety problems at clinics around the country, according to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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CDC warns of safety problems at clinics
Mar 4 2008 4:51AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An outbreak of hepatitis C at a Nevada clinic may represent "the tip of an iceberg" of safety problems at clinics around the country, according to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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