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Report: Accidental deaths on the rise
Jun 6 2007 11:19PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The nation's accidental death rate has been gradually creeping higher and is up 12 percent compared to the lowest rate on record, in 1992, according to a report released Thursday by the National Safety Council.
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Court grants asylum over forced abortion
Jun 6 2007 10:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that women who are forced to abort their pregnancies by governments such as China's can be awarded asylum in the United States.
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1,600 roller-shoe injuries reported
Jun 6 2007 10:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Injuries from trendy roller shoes are far more numerous than previously thought, contributing to about 1,600 emergency room visits last year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.
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1,600 roller-shoe injuries reported
Jun 6 2007 10:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Injuries from trendy roller shoes are far more numerous than previously thought, contributing to about 1,600 emergency room visits last year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.
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TB patient's family releases tape
Jun 6 2007 10:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The family of a lawyer with a rare strain of tuberculosis released part of a tape recording Wednesday in which a health official is heard saying the man was not contagious and didn't need to be isolated.
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TB traveler moved flight after warning
Jun 6 2007 10:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient moved up his flight to Europe after health officials urged him to stay put _ but the Atlanta lawyer, in defiant testimony from his hospital room Wednesday, insisted he wasn't ducking anyone.
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TB traveler moved flight after warning
Jun 6 2007 10:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient moved up his flight to Europe after health officials urged him to stay put _ but the Atlanta lawyer, in defiant testimony from his hospital room Wednesday, insisted he wasn't ducking anyone.
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Avandia to carry stronger warning label
Jun 6 2007 10:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration will require tougher warnings about heart failure on the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos, FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Avandia to carry stronger warning label
Jun 6 2007 10:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration will require tougher warnings about heart failure on the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos, FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Avandia to carry stronger warning label
Jun 6 2007 10:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration will require tougher warnings about heart failure on the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos, FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Ark. girl gets voice back after surgery
Jun 6 2007 9:54PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Emily Adams was doing nothing unusual, nothing reckless when she lost her ability to speak. The teenager from Pocahontas was helping her father last month with yardwork _ he on the riding lawnmower, she about 30 or 40 feet away with a push-mower. Without realizing it, Tom Adams struck a rock with the lawnmower. The rock _ about the size of a softball _ soared across the yard and struck Emily in the throat and chin.
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Ark. girl gets voice back after surgery
Jun 6 2007 9:54PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Emily Adams was doing nothing unusual, nothing reckless when she lost her ability to speak. The teenager from Pocahontas was helping her father last month with yardwork _ he on the riding lawnmower, she about 30 or 40 feet away with a push-mower. Without realizing it, Tom Adams struck a rock with the lawnmower. The rock _ about the size of a softball _ soared across the yard and struck Emily in the throat and chin.
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Ark. girl gets voice back after surgery
Jun 6 2007 9:54PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Emily Adams was doing nothing unusual, nothing reckless when she lost her ability to speak. The teenager from Pocahontas was helping her father last month with yardwork _ he on the riding lawnmower, she about 30 or 40 feet away with a push-mower. Without realizing it, Tom Adams struck a rock with the lawnmower. The rock _ about the size of a softball _ soared across the yard and struck Emily in the throat and chin.
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Surgery begins on conjoined twin girls
Jun 6 2007 9:38PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Doctors began the first in a series of high-risk surgeries Wednesday to separate 3-year-old twin girls joined at the head.
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Bird flu found near Kuala Lumpur
Jun 6 2007 4:45PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected outside Kuala Lumpur, one year after Malaysia was declared free of the disease, the government said Wednesday.
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Study: Folic acid doesn't prevent polyps
Jun 6 2007 4:43PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - High doses of folic acid do not prevent precancerous colon polyps in people prone to them and may actually increase the risk of developing the growths, a new study finds.
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Japan's fertility rate rises
Jun 6 2007 4:15PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's fertility rate rose last year for the first time in six years in 2006, while the number of suicides fell below the 30,000-case mark for the first time in four, the government said Wednesday.
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Cells made to mimic embryonic stem cells
Jun 6 2007 12:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a big step toward a long-sought goal, three teams of scientists say they've produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, at least in mice, without taking the controversial step of destroying embryos.
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