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17 pct. at 2 colleges practice self-abuse
Jun 4 2006 11:44PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly 1 in 5 students at two Ivy League schools say they have purposely injured themselves by cutting, burning or other methods, a disturbing phenomenon that psychologists say they are hearing about more often.
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Nations not meeting bird flu commitments
Jun 4 2006 3:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Only a small number of the countries that pledged nearly $2 billion in January to fight bird flu have paid out their full commitments, a World Bank draft report says.
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Study: Yoga helps breast cancer patients
Jun 4 2006 2:06PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Women going through treatment for breast cancer felt better when they tried yoga, according to one of the first scientific studies of its kind.
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Gilead faces criticism over drug access
Jun 4 2006 11:52AM (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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Officials, providers at odds on HIV test
Jun 4 2006 11:43AM (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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Pneumonia cases led to AIDS discovery
Jun 4 2006 10:59AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The first report of AIDS was published in the June 5, 1981, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Earthquake survivors at risk for bird flu
Jun 4 2006 10:29AM (CT)
PENTONG, Indonesia (AP) - The chicken coops in Indonesia's earthquake-flattened Pentong village are filled with salvaged TVs, cooking utensils, refrigerators _ and scores of people. Aid workers fear they could also contain bird flu.
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Bird flu tied to Indonesia kids' deaths
Jun 4 2006 10:22AM (CT)
KEDAUNG, Indonesia (AP) - When 10-year-old Toni lay sick with a fever last week, his father Suryoto went to a local shop and bought the same cough syrup and flu medicine that had always worked before. But this time was different: The fever refused to break and only burned hotter.
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86 treated for Legionnaires' in Spain
Jun 4 2006 10:04AM (CT)
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Eighty-six people were being treated Sunday following an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the northern city of Pamplona, regional authorities said.
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WHO: Indonesia teen died of bird flu
Jun 4 2006 10:02AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A World Health Organization laboratory has confirmed that bird flu killed a 15-year-old Indonesian boy who earlier tested positive to the H5N1 virus in a local lab, a health official said Sunday, bringing the country's toll to at least 37.
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AIDS toll may reach 100 million in Africa
Jun 4 2006 12:32AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - It began quietly, 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. Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.
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