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Survey: Teen smoking in U.S. levels off
Jun 9 2006 8:17PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The long, steady decline in teen smoking in the U.S. since the late 1990s appears to have come to a standstill, health officials said Friday.
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Researcher: Worms may help bowel disease
Jun 9 2006 8:17PM (CT)
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The upside of Linda Mansfield's research is that it may lead to a new treatment for inflammatory bowel disease. The downside is that it would involve swallowing worm eggs. Mansfield is a professor of microbiology at Michigan State University who specializes in the study of parasites.
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Cruise ship returns after 115 get sick
Jun 9 2006 8:14PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The Celebrity cruise ship Mercury returned to Seattle Friday morning with 115 people who had a gastrointestinal illness during their 7-night voyage to Alaska, the cruise company said.
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FDA to require drug tracking
Jun 9 2006 8:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Drugs will have to be tracked every time they change hands from the factory to the pharmacy under provisions of an 18-year-old law the government is just now ready to enforce.
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FDA approves cervical cancer vaccine
Jun 9 2006 8:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first vaccine against cervical cancer will be available to girls as young as 9 later this month. Its manufacturer, Merck & Co. Inc., is already taking orders for Gardasil. The three-shot series costs $360.
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States to get more Medicaid research help
Jun 9 2006 7:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration moved Friday to grant states more leeway when it comes to what documents they must demand of people trying to access government-sponsored health care for the poor.
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Mo. university to name building for Doisy
Jun 9 2006 2:12PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Saint Louis University will name its new $67 million biomedical research center after Edward Doisy, who spent five decades at the university's School of Medicine and won the 1943 Nobel Prize for discovering the chemical nature of vitamin K.
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Indian woman has identical quadruplets
Jun 9 2006 7:07AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A 26-year-old Indian computer software programmer has delivered identical quadruplets that have thrived despite being born 10 weeks early, a news agency reported Friday.
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