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Alzheimer's theory set for drug test
May 1 2006 10:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A provocative new theory suggests that one root cause of Alzheimer's disease is linked to diabetes _ a theory about to be tested in thousands of Alzheimer's patients given the diabetes drug Avandia in hopes of slowing brain decay.
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Dutch allow domestic poultry outdoors
May 1 2006 10:12PM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Netherlands' Agriculture Ministry lifted an order keeping all domestic poultry indoors on Monday, as fears over an outbreak of bird flu eased.
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AP: In pandemic draft plan, borders open
May 1 2006 10:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government forecasts massive disruptions if bird flu or some other super-strain of influenza arises, with as much as 40 percent of the national work force off the job, but it doesn't foresee closing U.S. borders to fight the spread, according to a draft of the national response plan obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
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Governors push for state health programs
May 1 2006 9:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A national campaign by the states' governors is using everything from bike rides with the South Carolina governor to anti-smoking statutes to try and get Americans to eat and smoke less and exercise more.
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Flu spray better than shots for toddlers
May 1 2006 9:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Flu shots don't protect babies and preschoolers quite as well as they do older children, but a new study suggests spraying flu vaccine into a small tot's nose may work better.
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American doctors treating 2 Afghan children
May 1 2006 9:47PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Two Afghan children will undergo operations to correct heart defects in the coming days after a military doctor examined them while he was deployed in Afghanistan and arranged to get them medical care in the United States.
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Va. studies medical needs of transgender
May 1 2006 2:33AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - For all the primping, powdering and pumping up many transgender men and women will do to pass as the opposite sex, there's one thing health care experts say too many of them can't stomach: a visit to the doctor.
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Snowbirds, sunbirds face Medicare choices
May 1 2006 2:31AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of older Americans who travel for extended periods face an added requirement in the complicated selection of Medicare drug coverage: choosing a plan that goes with them.
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