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Vets warned of possible virus exposure
Jun 2 2006 9:35PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - More than 22,000 veterans who underwent prostate biopsies at veterans' hospitals across the country are being warned that improperly sterilized equipment may have exposed them to deadly viruses.
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Laura Bush pushes AIDS education
Jun 2 2006 9:05PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - First lady Laura Bush told a major AIDS conference Friday that more people must understand how the deadly virus is transmitted, and she called on countries to improve literacy so their citizens can make better choices.
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Doctors say futile cancer treatment rising
Jun 2 2006 6:35PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Doctors are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of cancer patients getting chemo and other aggressive but futile treatment in the last days of their lives.
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Panel endorses proposed leukemia drug
Jun 2 2006 4:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. drug should receive accelerated federal approval to treat some leukemias where other drugs have failed, a panel of outside experts recommended Friday.
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World leaders resist AIDS money targets
Jun 2 2006 3:57PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - World leaders resisted setting exact financial targets Friday for the fight against AIDS, drawing criticism from activists who said rich nations are too worried about having to pay the bill.
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Debate emerges over HIV testing rules
Jun 2 2006 3:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - More than 100,000 New York City residents have HIV, and 20 percent don't know it. Many sicken and die without learning their status.
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HIV drug maker faces Third World critics
Jun 2 2006 3:01PM (CT)
FOSTER CITY, Calif. (AP) - The 25-year fight against AIDS has been good to Gilead Sciences Inc., a Bay Area biotechnology company that makes the world's hottest-selling HIV treatment.
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AIDS retains stigma in Eastern Europe
Jun 2 2006 2:55PM (CT)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Adrian Calea found out he was HIV positive when he accidentally saw a doctor's note in his mother's purse when he was 10. Two years later, he learned on the Internet exactly what that meant.
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Talk of AIDS no longer taboo in Caribbean
Jun 2 2006 2:54PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Standing beneath a towering crucifix, the Rev. Andre Pierre thundered at the faithful crowded elbow-to-elbow in the Sacred Heart Church to show mercy for the poor and the elderly.
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Asia now second to Africa in HIV cases
Jun 2 2006 2:51PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - When HIV first escalated in Africa and the Caribbean, Asia remained virtually untouched and unaware. But the world's most populous continent is catching up.
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AIDS' next 25 years may be worse for Africa
Jun 2 2006 2:35PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - It began innocuously, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history.
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Report: Restaurants should shrink portions
Jun 2 2006 2:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Those heaping portions at restaurants _ and doggie bags for the leftovers _ may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way.
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Corporations at odds over bone drug ads
Jun 2 2006 1:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two giant drug companies are waging a battle in Manhattan federal court over the market for drugs aimed at protecting the brittle bones of older women _ a multibillion-dollar business expected to rapidly expand in the coming years.
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Bird flu kills girl in hard-hit Indonesia
Jun 2 2006 9:55AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Local tests showed a 7-year-old girl has died of bird flu, a health official said Friday, the latest in a series of cases that are putting Indonesia on pace to become the world's hardest-hit country.
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WHO calls for end to genital cutting
Jun 2 2006 9:33AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization said Friday that female genital cutting is a form of torture that must be stamped out, even if it is done by trained medical personnel.
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