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Study: Crestor side effects deemed worse
May 23 2005 10:08PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Contrary to government claims, side effects happen more often with Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that consumer advocates tried to get off the market earlier this year, a new analysis shows.
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Travelers heading to gym at airport
May 23 2005 8:04PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When Harvey "Chip" Reed has a few hours to kill between flights at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, he doesn't wander aimlessly or fill up on fast food. He works out.
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Researcher studies heart disease in women
May 23 2005 8:03PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Women with heart disease experience symptoms different from those exhibited by men with the same condition, and a study at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is examining those differences.
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Patients iced down to avoid brain damage
May 23 2005 7:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For 24 hours, Hamilton Loeb lay unconscious inside a cold blue suit that put his brain on ice. Four times, his heart had stopped beating and he was shocked back to life. Then doctors essentially refrigerated him, in a bid to avert the brain damage that too often cripples survivors of cardiac arrest.
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Virus kills three transplant recipients
May 23 2005 7:52PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - An organ donor who was exposed to a common rodent virus, possibly from a hamster, passed the disease to four transplant patients, three of whom died, officials said Monday.
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Churches recruited in fight against cancer
May 23 2005 8:08AM (CT)
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Researchers from three South Carolina universities are working with the Baptist Education and Missionary Convention as part of a project to educate blacks about cancer.
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Legionnaire's outbreak kills 3 in Norway
May 23 2005 7:08AM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - An outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease has killed three people and left at least 23 others infected in southeastern Norway, public health officials said Monday.
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WHO OKs procedures for disease outbreaks
May 23 2005 6:17AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization on Monday adopted a new set of global health procedures designed to better control outbreaks of dangerous diseases, action spurred by growing fears of a pandemic sparked by SARS or the bird flu.
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West China province gets bird flu vaccine
May 23 2005 4:31AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The Chinese government has ordered millions of farm birds vaccinated for bird flu in part of the country where migrating geese have been found dead of the disease.
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