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Study shows combat stress aid falls short
May 11 2006 9:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Less than one-quarter of the U.S. military's Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who show signs of post-traumatic stress are referred for additional mental health treatment or evaluation, a government study finds.
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Scientists disagree on abortion pill role
May 11 2006 8:51PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Scientists disagreed Thursday over whether the abortion pill RU-486 played any role in the deaths of four California women who died from a rare bacterial infection.
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FDA OKs Pfizer anti-smoking pill
May 11 2006 7:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A tablet shown to help more than one in five smokers quit joined the limited number of effective stop-smoking drugs on Thursday, approved by federal regulators.
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Town shudders from cancer study
May 11 2006 7:38PM (CT)
ASHLAND, Mass. (AP) - Neil MacLennan remembers the fun he and his friends had as boys playing in the funny candy-colored swamps and ponds near the ballfields _ catching frogs, wading in to retrieve fly balls, jumping in to cool off after practice.
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Officials debate how to ration vaccine
May 11 2006 7:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Who should get the first flu vaccine during a worldwide outbreak _ the 60-year-old grandmother with a weak heart and lungs or the healthy 4-year-old with decades ahead of her?
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N.H. moves to bar sale of doctors' data
May 11 2006 4:55PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire moved Thursday to bar the sale of doctors' prescription data, taking the lead against a practice that has angered some doctors around the country.
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College gets $16M for stem cell center
May 11 2006 12:44AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sound pioneer Ray Dolby and his wife gave $16 million to the University of California, San Francisco to start a stem cell center that will perform research without federal funds, the school announced Wednesday.
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