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Officials urge caution in mumps outbreak
Apr 14 2006 9:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - State health officials urged residents Friday to take steps to prevent the further spread of the mumps as the number of confirmed cases continued to rise.
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Bausch & Lomb asks stores to pull ReNu
Apr 14 2006 9:10PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - ReNu with MoistureLoc was being pulled from U.S. store shelves at the request of Bausch & Lomb amid concern the contact lens solution may be linked to a fungal eye infection that can cause blindness.
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Chinese man gets partial face transplant
Apr 14 2006 7:40PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A man whose face was badly disfigured after an attack by a black bear received a partial face transplant Friday, in what a hospital described as a first for China.
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Texas students learn about portion sizes
Apr 14 2006 7:39PM (CT)
IRVING, Texas (AP) - With a tennis ball and a yo-yo as props, first-grade teacher Kristy Brooks helped her class understand the correct portion sizes for vegetables.
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Sisters of breast cancer victims studied
Apr 14 2006 7:28PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - When Gina Gordick heard her younger sister had breast cancer, she wanted to do something more than just make her soup and run errands. Gordick, 55, of Fayette, says watching someone you love fight breast cancer is a "painful, miserable, awful" experience.
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Journal calls for change in drug trials
Apr 14 2006 7:28PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Britain's leading medical journal called Friday for "urgent change" in the processes for approving and regulating human drug trials involving man-made antibodies, weeks after authorized tests left six men fighting for their lives.
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Navajos battle a modern-day enemy: Meth
Apr 14 2006 4:33PM (CT)
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - Isabel Whitehair had never heard of methamphetamine before her 2-year-old son reached under the sink at bath time, pulled out a pipe and put it to his mouth.
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A tourism mecca, Hawaii braces for flu
Apr 14 2006 7:51AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii, both tourist mecca and western gateway to the nation, is ahead of many states in preparing for a possible global flu epidemic.
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Iowa mumps epidemic continues to broaden
Apr 14 2006 5:35AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The mumps epidemic in Iowa continued to widen this week and reached 605 cases by Thursday, public health officials said. Although the highest concentration of cases remained in eastern Iowa, the virus that causes mumps has infected at least one person in half of the state's 99 counties.
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