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Teen abuse of Rx drugs become 'entrenched'
May 15 2006 11:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Teen smoking and drinking continued to drop, but teenage abuse of prescription drugs has become "an entrenched behavior" that many parents fail to recognize, a survey released Tuesday showed.
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Multimedia babies: Good news, bad news
May 15 2006 8:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They're bombarded with electronics starting in infancy, from the new "Sesame Street" for 6-month-olds to game-playing laptops for toddlers. But when does being a multimedia youngster help _ and when does it hurt _ children's malleable brains?
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Bausch & Lomb pulls lens solution
May 15 2006 7:26PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Bausch & Lomb Inc. has permanently withdrawn a new-formula contact-lens cleaner viewed as the "potential root cause" of a far-flung outbreak of fungal eye infections known to cause blindness. Its stock, hit hard over the last month, rose nearly 13 percent.
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Chinese newborns lacking enough iodine
May 15 2006 7:25PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of newborns in China don't get enough iodine in their diet, reducing the overall brainpower in parts of the country, state media reported Monday.
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Nancy Reagan again takes lead on stem cells
May 15 2006 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - With Nancy Reagan's blessing and in defiance of President Bush's veto threat, Senate Republican leaders are making plans for a vote this summer on a bill to restore federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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Surgically separated twins improving
May 15 2006 1:34PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Five-month-old twin girls who were surgically separated last week were upgraded Monday from critical to serious condition, the Mayo Clinic said.
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Afghan boy with heart defect on way to U.S.
May 15 2006 10:25AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An 8-year-old Afghan boy with a defective heart boarded a military transport plane Monday for a trip to the United States for surgery, a military spokesman said.
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Military vets wage war against obesity
May 15 2006 1:02AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Vietnam veteran Abdul Baseer-El survived a rocket attack in Da Nang in the '60s. Today he is fighting a new enemy: obesity. The 57-year-old former Marine has worked hard to lose 100 pounds with the help of doctors at a Veterans Affairs hospital. He's one of millions of veterans struggling with weight problems and the health complications that come with it.
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