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Prostate cancer research and advocacy lag
Mar 27 2005 9:45PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - It's the most common major cancer in America, even though it affects only one sex. Lifetime odds of getting it are 1 in 6. Testing for it is controversial, and treating it robs many of a body part that's important to their sexuality. This isn't breast cancer, a disease tattooed into the American psyche. It is its male counterpart, prostate cancer, which has made a much fainter mark.
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Doctors try to avoid 'doorknob phenomenon'
Mar 27 2005 9:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The four familiar words physicians always dread come when the office visit is ending, doctor's pen clipped back onto the white coat pocket and hand reaching for the door. "Oh, by the way," the patient says. What comes next could be as innocuous as a harmless freckle _ or a bombshell. Doctors call it "the doorknob phenomenon."
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MD linked to first 'test-tube baby' dies
Mar 27 2005 8:59PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, who helped develop the program that led to America's first "test-tube baby," has died. She was 92. Jones died Saturday of cardiac arrest at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the 1990s.
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Eating disorders crossing the color line
Mar 27 2005 8:58PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The common perception is that eating disorders afflict only white women, especially upper- and middle-class women. While those are the most reported cases, specialists believe all socio-economic and ethnic groups are at risk.
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Kids suffer from parents' meth addiction
Mar 27 2005 3:24PM (CT)
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) - Jittery babies, mistreated toddlers, strung-out mothers: Cheryll Jones' pediatric nursing practice is far from what it was when she started out 30 years ago _ long before methamphetamine invaded this riverside Corn Belt town. "If anybody told me my primary caseload would be kids exposed to illicit drugs, I'd have said they were crazy," said Jones, who now runs a local task force helping the most helpless victims of the nation's meth epidemic _ small children whose parents ma
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Anti-vaccine sentiment plagues Nigeria
Mar 27 2005 12:09PM (CT)
KANO, Nigeria (AP) - Accusations by Islamic preachers that vaccines are part of an American anti-Islamic plot are threatening efforts to combat a measles epidemic that has killed hundreds of Nigerian children, health workers say.
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North Korea reports outbreak of bird flu
Mar 27 2005 8:28AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea acknowledged an outbreak of bird flu for the first time, saying Sunday that hundreds of thousands of chickens were killed to prevent its spread, and the disease was not passed on to humans.
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Docs say Schiavo videotapes can mislead
Mar 27 2005 7:41AM (CT)
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - They say film doesn't lie, but does that mean it tells the truth? The public sees fleeting videotaped images of Terri Schiavo, appearing to many to turn toward her mother's voice and smile. They hear what sound like moans and laughter. They watch her head move up and down, seemingly following the progress of a brightly colored Mickey Mouse balloon. And often they ask: How could anyone conclude but that she is aware of her surroundings?
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