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Study: Canadians healthier than Americans
May 30 2006 9:53PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - You can add Canadians to the list of foreigners who are healthier than Americans. Americans are 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, 32 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, and 12 percent more likely to have arthritis, Harvard Medical School researchers found. That is according to a survey in which American and Canadian adults were asked over the telephone about their health.
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U.N. says India now has most AIDS cases
May 30 2006 6:45PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - India now has the largest number of AIDS infections as the spread of the disease shows no sign of letting up a quarter-century into an epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives, the U.N. reported Tuesday.
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Military starts online stress screening
May 30 2006 6:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Concerned by rising stress levels in the ranks, the Defense Department has quietly started an online self-screening program in hopes that anonymity will help some service members and their spouses overcome reluctance to confront possible mental-health problems.
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Scientists in Rome to discuss bird flu
May 30 2006 6:43PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Three years after the first outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, experts are still puzzling at how the disease spread across three continents so quickly and how wild birds have helped disseminate the deadly virus.
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Baby with 3 arms may have surgery
May 30 2006 6:43PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a two-month old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm.
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Cordless jump-rope can help the clumsy
May 30 2006 6:50AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - If you think keeping fit is merely mind over matter, Lester Clancy has an invention for you _ a cordless jump-rope. That's right, a jump-rope minus the rope. All that's left is two handles, so you jump over the pretend rope. Or if you are truly lazy, you can pretend to jump over the pretend rope.
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UNAIDS head: World is losing HIV fight
May 30 2006 6:09AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The world continues to lose an ugly battle to HIV/AIDS that shows no sign of letting up after 25 million people have died a quarter-century into the epidemic, the head of the U.N.'s HIV/AIDS joint program said.
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