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China blames Panama on tainted drugs
May 31 2007 10:56PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Businesses in Panama, not China were "mainly responsible" for passing off an industrial chemical as a medical ingredient leading to the deaths of at least 51 people, a senior official in China's product-inspection agency said Thursday.
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Doctor sees blood cancers in WTC program
May 31 2007 8:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.
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Cancer expected to skyrocket in Asia
May 31 2007 7:31PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.
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Scientist gets his own genome map
May 31 2007 5:06PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA has become the first person to receive his own personal genome map.
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Starbucks switches to 2 percent milk
May 31 2007 4:51PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it will replace whole milk with 2 percent for espresso drinks in all of its U.S. and Canadian stores by the end of the year.
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Swiss ask Novartis to withdraw drug
May 31 2007 10:18AM (CT)
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - The Swiss pharmaceuticals regulator said Thursday it ordered the withdrawal of Novartis AG's Zelmac for irritable bowel syndrome, saying the risks of the treatment are greater than the benefit.
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TB on a plane? Sign of the times
May 31 2007 8:10AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - SARS on a plane. Mumps on a plane. And now a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis, on at least two planes. Commercial air travel's potential for spreading infection continues to cause handwringing among public health officials, as news of a jet-setting man with a rare and deadly form of TB demonstrates.
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FDA nixes fast track for cancer vaccine
May 31 2007 7:12AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - GlaxoSmithKline PLC revealed Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to grant a priority review to its experimental cancer vaccine Cervarix, adding to pressure on the drug maker after controversy surrounding its diabetes drug Avandia.
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CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient
May 31 2007 5:23AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient
May 31 2007 5:23AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient
May 31 2007 5:23AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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US probes how TB traveler crossed border
May 31 2007 2:18AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating how a globe-trotting tuberculosis patient drove back into the country even after his name was put on a no-fly list provided to border guards. The failure exposed a major gap in a system that is supposed to keep the direst of diseases from crossing borders.
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US probes how TB traveler crossed border
May 31 2007 2:18AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating how a globe-trotting tuberculosis patient drove back into the country even after his name was put on a no-fly list provided to border guards. The failure exposed a major gap in a system that is supposed to keep the direst of diseases from crossing borders.
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US probes how TB traveler crossed border
May 31 2007 2:18AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating how a globe-trotting tuberculosis patient drove back into the country even after his name was put on a no-fly list provided to border guards. The failure exposed a major gap in a system that is supposed to keep the direst of diseases from crossing borders.
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