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Kaiser Permanente's kidney program probed
May 5 2006 10:54PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - State regulators are investigating whether the nation's largest not-for-profit managed-care provider mishandled a vast new kidney transplant program and put hundreds of patients at risk, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Managed Health Care said Friday.
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Number of rare eye fungus cases increases
May 5 2006 10:16PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - The number of confirmed cases of a rare eye fungus that can cause scarring of the cornea has climbed above 100 in recent days, but the origin of the infection linked to contact lens cleaners remains a mystery, health authorities said Friday.
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EU panel: Aspartame poses no cancer risk
May 5 2006 9:47PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - The popular diet sweetener aspartame won another round in the safety debate when a European panel of scientists said Friday there's no sign it raises the risk of cancer.
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Asthma symptoms double in NYC in week
May 5 2006 5:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The number of New Yorkers suffering from asthma symptoms in the past week has more than doubled, the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Friday.
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Illegal animal trade a bird-flu concern
May 5 2006 5:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trade in animals _ both legal and illegal _ is a more likely culprit in spreading bird flu than wild migrating birds, some of the world's top wild bird experts said Friday.
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Bowel cleansers get FDA warning
May 5 2006 5:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials warned Friday of kidney failure associated with certain products used to cleanse the bowel before colonoscopies and other procedures.
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Feds increasing anthrax vaccine stockpile
May 5 2006 5:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Michigan company will receive $120 million to produce 5 million more doses of anthrax vaccine to bolster the government's stockpile of antidotes against bioweapons.
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