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Ariz. hospitals test scorpion stings drug
Apr 12 2006 9:25PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Three hospitals in Arizona, all in metropolitan Phoenix, are testing a new antivenin designed to counter the effects of scorpion bites in children.
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Bausch & Lomb: Source of infection unknown
Apr 12 2006 9:22PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Bausch & Lomb Inc. scrambled to reassure investors Wednesday as federal health officials try to unravel the mystery of whether its newest contact lens solution is to blame for a flurry of potentially severe eye infections.
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CDC eyes air travel in mumps epidemic
Apr 12 2006 9:22PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread Iowa's mumps epidemic to six other Midwestern states, health officials said Wednesday, the latest example of how quickly disease can spread through air travel.
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Court: British NHS wrong in cancer case
Apr 12 2006 8:30PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Britain's health service broke the law when it refused to pay for a woman's breast cancer treatment with a potentially life saving drug, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Lawsuit alleges Merck negligent
Apr 12 2006 6:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Merck & Co, which is already facing a raft of cases over its pain reliever Vioxx, may need to hire additional attorneys to fight a recently filed lawsuit alleging the company was negligent in promoting its osteoporosis drug Fosamax.
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Mass. governor OKs landmark health bill
Apr 12 2006 6:44PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Mitt Romney signed legislation Wednesday that would make Massachusetts the first state to require everyone to have health insurance, just as drivers must have automobile coverage.
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Expert says bird flu no imminent threat
Apr 12 2006 9:23AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even if bird flu does arrive on U.S. shores on the wings of a migratory bird, the virus is unlikely to make the inroads in poultry _ or in people _ that it has in less developed countries, the nation's top avian influenza expert says.
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Myanmar says its bird flu under control
Apr 12 2006 8:53AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Bird flu in Myanmar has been brought under control, and restrictions will be lifted in two affected regions by the end of the month, a livestock official said Wednesday, just days after the U.N. said the situation in this impoverished nation was more serious than originally thought.
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Many Cambodians in the dark about bird flu
Apr 12 2006 6:35AM (CT)
TUOL PRIK, Cambodia (AP) - Two days after Cheoun Uork's 3-year-old daughter died, health officials told him she had succumbed to bird flu. He had never heard of the virus.
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