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Study links middle age obesity to dementia
Apr 28 2005 10:14PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The most convincing research so far suggests that being fat in your 40s might raise your risk of developing dementia later in life.
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Eli Lilly halts child sepsis study
Apr 28 2005 7:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eli Lilly & Co. has halted a pediatric study of its sepsis treatment Xigris, saying the drug was showing no benefit for children with the severe bloodstream infection and there was a sign of a possible serious side effect.
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Heroin addicts clamor for scarce medicine
Apr 28 2005 7:39PM (CT)
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - Krystal began using heroin when she was 14, and soon hit bottom. But at 18, she says she is drug-free, holds down a job, attends beauty school and cares for her toddler son. She credits a relatively new medication called buprenorphine with freeing her from heroin's grip.
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CDC pushing new mosquito repellents
Apr 28 2005 7:15PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - After years of promoting the chemical DEET as the best defense against West Nile-bearing mosquitoes, the government for the first time is recommending the use of two other insect repellents.
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Rise of melanoma in kids alarming doctors
Apr 28 2005 12:51PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Doctors used to think that it took years for the deadliest skin cancer to develop _ that is, until melanoma started appearing in teenagers and children even younger.
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