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Chan: Bird flu huge global health threat
May 16 2007 6:42PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. health chief on Wednesday harshly criticized countries that do not share their H5N1 virus samples, accusing them of crippling the world in the fight against a possible flu pandemic.
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Experts: Kids avoid weight gain on diet
May 16 2007 5:57PM (CT)
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) - More fruits and vegetables were added to school lunches. Restaurants offered smaller portions. Crosswalks even got a fresh coat of paint to encourage walking and biking. The whole city of Somerville went on a diet to curb childhood obesity, and researchers say it worked.
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Experts: Kids avoid weight gain on diet
May 16 2007 5:57PM (CT)
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) - More fruits and vegetables were added to school lunches. Restaurants offered smaller portions. Crosswalks even got a fresh coat of paint to encourage walking and biking. The whole city of Somerville went on a diet to curb childhood obesity, and researchers say it worked.
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Ground broken for Wash. medical school
May 16 2007 5:55PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - A new medical school will produce graduates to work in rural parts of the Pacific Northwest where doctors are scarce, its backers said Wednesday.
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Duke center to study premature babies
May 16 2007 3:42PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A new center at Duke University will become the first to study why more babies are born premature or underweight in the South than elsewhere in the nation.
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Study: Diabetes drug use spikes in girls
May 16 2007 1:08AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The number of adolescent girls taking drugs for Type 2 diabetes nearly tripled in just five years, while use of chronic medicines for psychotic behavior and insomnia roughly doubled among boys and girls aged 10 to 19, a study shows.
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