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Study: Cigarette smoke may harm fertility
May 25 2005 8:59PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - New research suggests that exposure to other people's cigarette smoke may damage a woman's fertility, especially if she needs the help of an infertility clinic to get pregnant.
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Ore. baby born with extra toes and finger
May 25 2005 8:00PM (CT)
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A baby has been born with two extra toes on each foot and one extra finger on each hand. Born May 13, Vincent Monarque has five fingers and a thumb on his left hand, with the thumb and first finger joined by a web of flesh.
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Texas woman has identical quadruplets
May 25 2005 5:57PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Shelley Breedlove used to tease her mother about not being able to tell her apart from an identical twin sister. Now, as a new mother, Breedlove has her own identity crisis: identical quadruplets.
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States squawk over water-quality monitors
May 25 2005 4:45PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas and Oklahoma, which have been at odds for years over poultry-farm pollution flowing into the rivers they share, are squabbling again after Oklahoma researchers secretly slipped across the state line and set up water-quality monitors in Arkansas.
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Experts call for cooperation to fight flu
May 25 2005 3:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Several of the world's leading international disease experts are calling for more international cooperation and a new kind of vaccine to prepare for a global flu outbreak that could strike one-fifth of the world's population and kill millions.
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Rodent virus now linked to six deaths
May 25 2005 12:10PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Health officials are asking doctors to watch for unusual illnesses in organ transplant and blood transfusion patients now that at least six deaths have been linked to a virus carried by hamsters and mice.
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