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Study: Therapy helps stroke patients speak
Jun 9 2005 7:51PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Intensive therapy with people who suffered a stroke years earlier seems to improve their speaking ability, a small study suggests, offering hope to stroke victims and their families.
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Idaho boy surviving rare blood disorder
Jun 9 2005 7:46PM (CT)
OROFINO, Idaho (AP) - In less than a month, Nicholas Ashby hopes to celebrate his fourth birthday, thanks to a bone-marrow transplant that so far is helping him survive one of the world's rarest blood disorders.
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Book offers diet options for the weak
Jun 9 2005 7:41PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - In a no-nonsense approach to weight loss, the American Heart Association's new diet book offers options for the weak. Can't give up pizza? Try eating two slices instead of your regular three. Craving ice cream? Try a sorbet.
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Genes may play role in women's orgasms
Jun 9 2005 12:47PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A woman's ability to have an orgasm is at least partly determined by her genes and can't be blamed entirely on cultural influences, new research suggests. Experts say that's likely to be interpreted as both good and bad news.
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Peru's 'miracle baby' recovering well
Jun 9 2005 6:38AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - One week after surgery to separate her fused legs, 13-month-old Milagros Cerron was recovering quickly, with daily treatments inside a super-oxygenated hyperbaric chamber to speed her healing, her doctors said Wednesday.
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Members of two families share kidneys
Jun 9 2005 6:35AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Two families, once strangers 400 miles apart, are now forever bonded by blood, tissue and four surgeons' knives. In transplants involving four people, an Ohio man suffering from diabetes-related organ failure received a kidney from a healthy Wisconsin woman whose sick sister, in turn, received a kidney from the Ohio man's healthy wife.
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