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Plus-size instructor urges yoga for all
May 24 2005 10:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As Megan Garcia prepares to do a twisting yoga pose, she reminds her students to lift their bellies up and over their legs. Wearing a one-piece purple leotard, she's not shy about the love handles around her waist or the extra flesh on her thighs.
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Rodent virus now linked to six deaths
May 24 2005 10:00PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - At least six deaths of organ transplant patients have now been linked to a rodent virus, raising questions about whether others may have gone undetected and whether the germ also could spread through blood transfusions.
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Defibrillator maker didn't reveal problem
May 24 2005 9:32PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The maker of an internal heart defibrillator acknowledged it waited three years before telling some 24,000 patients and their doctors about an electrical problem that caused a small fraction of the implanted devices to short-circuit.
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Groups petition to block silicone implants
May 24 2005 7:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal law requires that makers of silicone-gel breast implants settle questions about how long they last before the devices are allowed back onto the market, critics argued Tuesday in a petition to the government.
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Little risk of cancer found in hair dye
May 24 2005 7:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A review of nearly 40 years of research suggests that hair dye poses little or no risk of cancer, as some fear. Skeptics, however, say safety questions remain.
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Patients iced down to avoid brain damage
May 24 2005 7:25PM (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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Black churches enlisted in diabetes fight
May 24 2005 10:21AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - The American Diabetes Association is enlisting the help of black church leaders to educate their high-risk congregations about the disease.
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N.J. schools may stop selling junk food
May 24 2005 10:05AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Public elementary and middle schools would be prohibited from selling soda and junk food under a package of measures approved Monday by a state Senate panel taking aim at a growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
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Study contradicts FDA on Crestor risks
May 24 2005 8:52AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - New research seems to challenge a Food and Drug Administration decision not to pull the cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor off the market, with data showing it causes more kidney and muscle problems than rival medications.
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