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Study: Cancer rate linked to textile site
Apr 25 2006 11:30PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A disturbingly high number of cancer cases outside Boston are linked to a former textile dye-making plant with waste ponds that some children swam in, state health officials concluded Tuesday.
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Risk cited in replacing heart device
Apr 25 2006 9:12PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A new study suggests that for some patients with implanted heart defibrillators that have been recalled by the manufacturer, replacing the device might be riskier than leaving it in.
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FDA warns antihistamine linked to deaths
Apr 25 2006 9:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials warned parents and doctors Tuesday not to give drugs that contain promethazine hydrochloride to children younger than 2, citing seven cases of death linked to use of the antihistamine.
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Airlines balk at epidemic safeguards
Apr 25 2006 5:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Concerned about bird flu, federal health officials want airlines to collect personal information about domestic and international passengers to help track a potential epidemic.
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Study: Money sways federal drug voting
Apr 25 2006 4:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The outside experts who advise the government on drugs sometimes have financial conflicts that may sway some of their votes, a situation that would never be tolerated among jurors in legal cases, consumer advocates say.
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Arizona county urges whooping cough shots
Apr 25 2006 3:58PM (CT)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - An ongoing outbreak of whooping cough has prompted Coconino County health officials to urge parents to vaccinate babies, children and themselves against the disease.
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Profs object to germ research site
Apr 25 2006 3:55PM (CT)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - University of North Dakota professors and environmentalists object to the proposed site of a germ research center, saying it is on native prairie that should be preserved.
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Surgeons find 8-inch forceps left in woman
Apr 25 2006 3:04PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Surgeons retrieved a pair of eight-inch-long (20-centimeter-long) forceps left inside a 17-year old Pakistani when she had an appendectomy nearly three years ago, health officials said Tuesday.
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Kan. boy suspended for not being immunized
Apr 25 2006 2:26PM (CT)
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) - A high school student in Franklin County has been suspended from school for 12 days because he has not been immunized for mumps, the boy's parent said.
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Addicts seek out drugs blamed for deaths
Apr 25 2006 1:47PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - After Ellen Krips' cousin died of an overdose of extremely potent drugs last week, the heroin addict's first thought was not how she could avoid the bad junk.
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Vatican studying condoms and AIDS
Apr 25 2006 12:06PM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican is studying whether condoms can be condoned to help stem the tide of AIDS, but it has given no indication that a pronouncement is expected, officials said Tuesday.
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Chinese face transplant patient healing
Apr 25 2006 10:07AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese man who was attacked by a bear and had a rare partial face transplant is healing well, but his body could still reject tissue from a brain-dead patient used to give him a new nose, lip and cheek, state media reported Tuesday.
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