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Study: Parents can help babies get rhythm
Jun 2 2005 9:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gently bounce a baby while you sing, and you'll usually get squeals of glee. But it's not just fun: Feeling the beat helps wire babies' brains to hear rhythm. So says new research that tested moms and babies doing what comes naturally _ dancing around together.
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Whooping cough booster shot appears safe
Jun 2 2005 7:09PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - An experimental booster shot designed to protect adults and adolescents from whooping cough proved safe and effective in a study released Thursday, offering a vital new tool for fighting a dangerous resurgence of the disease over the past few years.
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Hospitals cutting patient complications
Jun 2 2005 7:09PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - For 13 straight months at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, not one patient on a ventilator has developed pneumonia. Not impressed? You should be.
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Peru's 'miracle baby' shown to media
Jun 2 2005 7:08PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Doctors on Thursday gave the world its first peak at 13-month-old Milagros Cerron since surgery to separate her fused legs in the second such successful operation on record to correct "mermaid syndrome."
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U.N.: Goal to halt AIDS spread unrealistic
Jun 2 2005 7:08PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations' top HIV/AIDS official acknowledged at a conference Thursday that it was no longer realistic to hope that the world will meet its goal of halting and reversing the spread of the pandemic by 2015.
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MS drug gets another possible setback
Jun 2 2005 5:14PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Biogen Idec Inc. told the Food and Drug Administration that a fourth patient may have contracted a rare and potentially fatal brain disease after being treated with the company's multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.
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Guidant stands by flawed heart device
Jun 2 2005 4:35PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Medical device maker Guidant Corp. on Thursday stood by its decision to continue selling an implantable heart defibrillator for months after a potential flaw prompted a redesign, saying the original device was still reliable.
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China doctors separate conjoined twins
Jun 2 2005 1:43PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Doctors in Shanghai successfully separated two-month-old conjoined twin girls on Wednesday, hospital staff said.
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Experimental vaccine helps reduce shingles
Jun 2 2005 1:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Retiree Norman Telleson didn't know much about a painful skin rash called shingles when he volunteered for a study of an experimental vaccine to prevent it.
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Malaysia to start anti-HIV program
Jun 2 2005 1:42PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia will distribute free needles and condoms to drug addicts in a potentially controversial pilot project aimed at curbing HIV infections, the government said Thursday.
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Children suffer middle-age health woes
Jun 2 2005 6:02AM (CT)
ATHENS (AP) - About half a million children in Europe are suffering classic middle-aged health problems because they are too fat, according to new estimates released Wednesday.
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Regional health center receives $40M grant
Jun 2 2005 5:18AM (CT)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - The National Institutes of Health awarded a $40 million grant to Colorado State University on Wednesday for a regional center to fight human-to-animal diseases such as West Nile and hantavirus.
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