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Bird flu widespread in Mekong Delta
Apr 12 2005 11:27PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - More than 70 percent of random duck and geese samples have tested positive for bird flu in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta, but many farmers have refused to slaughter their flocks, officials said Wednesday.
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Panel opposes silicone breast implants
Apr 12 2005 10:18PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirteen years after most silicone-gel breast implants were banned, federal health advisers on Tuesday narrowly rejected a manufacturer's request to bring them back to the U.S. market, citing lingering questions about safety and durability.
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Scientists scramble to destroy flu strain
Apr 12 2005 10:02PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Thousands of scientists were scrambling Tuesday at the urging of global health authorities to destroy vials of a pandemic flu strain sent to labs in 18 countries as part of routine testing.
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Wisconsin man diagnosed with measles
Apr 12 2005 8:27PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Health officials are screening people who came into contact with a man who contracted measles, the first case of the disease in Wisconsin since 1996.
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Drug prices up 7 percent in '04, AARP says
Apr 12 2005 8:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale prices for brand-name prescription drugs jumped an average of 7.1 percent in 2004, the largest increase in five years and more than twice the overall rate of inflation, the AARP said Tuesday.
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Blacks less likely to seek cancer info
Apr 12 2005 8:22PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Black women with a family history of breast cancer are much less likely than whites to get genetic counseling, in part because of the mistaken notion that the genetic form of the illness is a white woman's disease, researchers say.
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Polio gave Boston area final blow
Apr 12 2005 1:55PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Lynne Fraser remembers the neighborhood teenager who gave her polio, and maybe even when it happened. She was 4 years old in 1955 when she sat on his lap at her kitchen table and they playfully wrestled.
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Study: Lean teens likely to exercise more
Apr 12 2005 11:59AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Lean teenagers are more likely to be the athletes who have a lifestyle that can overcome the effects of hours on the computer or watching TV, a study of Georgia students suggests.
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Study: Cloned meat, milk nearly the same
Apr 12 2005 10:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Meat and milk from cloned animals is essentially identical to that from animals that reproduced normally, a new study says.
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History of polio traced in D.C. exhibit
Apr 12 2005 6:20AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Devastating outbreaks of "infantile paralysis," the disease that crippled 39-year-old Franklin Roosevelt, panicked many American parents of the mid-1900s until Jonas Salk announced a successful vaccine in 1955. Most victims were small children.
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Microbiologist Maurice Hilleman dies at 85
Apr 12 2005 2:50AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Each time an American mother takes her child to the doctor's office for a checkup, she likely leaves with the fruits of Maurice Hilleman's career _ vaccines that have helped put an end to childhood miseries.
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