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FDA OKs lizard-derived shot for diabetes
Apr 29 2005 7:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Type 2 diabetics got a new option to help control their blood sugar Friday, a drug derived from the saliva of the Gila monster _ but one that must be injected twice a day.
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Researchers locate lost fishing nets
Apr 29 2005 7:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers using satellites and aircraft have located a concentration of lost or abandoned fishing nets that drift through the oceans posing a danger to fish and other wildlife.
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Girl sticks schoolmates with used needle
Apr 29 2005 7:20PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A third-grader stuck 19 schoolmates with her mother's diabetes blood-testing needle this week, and one pricked student tested positive for HIV on a preliminary test, officials said.
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Only 2 donors can help boy with rare blood
Apr 29 2005 7:19PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A young child with sickle-cell anemia has been found to have a blood type so rare that only two people in the entire nation have been identified as potential donors, according to his pediatrician and experts at the American Red Cross.
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Chemical engineer receives $500K prize
Apr 29 2005 7:13PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Robert Langer, a chemical engineer whose work with polymers helped pave the way for implantable drug-delivery devices and tissue engineering, won the nation's richest prize for medicine and biomedical research Friday.
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Study links middle age obesity to dementia
Apr 29 2005 7:12PM (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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CDC pushing new mosquito repellents
Apr 29 2005 8:06AM (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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Numbers up in Fla. for parasitic illness
Apr 29 2005 3:23AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - At least 30 people have gotten sick in Florida in recent weeks from a parasite that can spread illness through contaminated food or water.
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