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Vegetative state can give false hope
Mar 21 2005 8:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the family video played over and over on TV, Terri Schiavo seems to gaze fondly at her mother, with the hint of a smile. On Sunday night, as Congress took up debate on her case, her father told reporters that she responded to his teasing by making a face at him. "It tells us she's still with us," he said. But in Schiavo's condition, described as a persistent vegetative state, family members can be deceived by things like eye movements and reflexes, experts say.
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Expert: Asia flu cases may be undercounted
Mar 21 2005 4:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The incidence of a particularly lethal variation of influenza in Southeast Asia is probably greater than has been reported so far, a flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
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Waistline good indicator of diabetes risk
Mar 21 2005 3:09PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A man's waist size seems to be a stronger indicator of diabetes risk than the body-mass index, new research suggests Johns Hopkins scientists reviewed data from 27,270 men tracked over 13 years and put them into five groups according to their waist size; 884 of the men had diabetes.
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