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Doc interrupts surgery to donate his blood
May 26 2006 9:58PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A heart surgeon had to take a break from a mercy-mission operation in El Salvador so he could donate his own rare-type blood for his 8-year-old patient.
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FDA approves Merck's shingles vaccine
May 26 2006 9:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new and more potent version of the chickenpox vaccine has won federal approval to prevent shingles, the often excruciatingly painful disease that can strike the elderly when the chickenpox virus emerges after lying dormant for decades.
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New Mexico woman dies from the plague
May 26 2006 9:21PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - New Mexico on Friday reported its first death from the plague in 12 years. The state Department of Health confirmed that a Bernalillo County woman died from septicemic plague early last week. The agency does not release details on plague victims.
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Thalidomide OK'd for bone-marrow cancer
May 26 2006 9:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thalidomide received federal approval Thursday for treatment of bone-marrow cancer, marking the further rehabilitation of a drug originally banned more than 40 years ago after it caused thousands of birth defects.
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Baby with heart condition recovers
May 26 2006 7:12PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 10-month-old twin boy born with a potentially fatal heart condition improved so dramatically that he was released from the hospital Thursday without the transplant he was awaiting.
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Bird flu kills 2 siblings in Indonesia
May 26 2006 12:36PM (CT)
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) - Preliminary tests have identified two new fatal cases of bird flu in Indonesia, officials said Friday as they investigated a separate case involving the largest family cluster ever reported.
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Bird flu kills two siblings in Indonesia
May 26 2006 3:15AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Preliminary tests have found that bird flu killed two more siblings in Indonesia, officials said Friday, as they searched for the origin of a separate outbreak that has killed at least six members of the same family.
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