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Hospital has Legionnaires' disease cases
Jun 14 2006 11:01PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Ten cases of Legionnaires' disease have been diagnosed among patients and visitors at a San Antonio hospital, and health officials suspect the facility is the source of the outbreak.
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L.A. doctors separate conjoined twins
Jun 14 2006 10:13PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ten-month-old conjoined twins attached from the lower chest to the pelvis were separated Wednesday after a daylong operation, a hospital spokesman said.
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Study: Meth use rare in most of the U.S.
Jun 14 2006 9:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Methamphetamine use is rare in most of the United States, not the raging epidemic described by politicians and the news media, says a study by an advocacy group.
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Catholic Healthcare West settles lawsuit
Jun 14 2006 9:15PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A health care provider with hospitals in three Western states agreed Wednesday to reimburse as many as 800,000 uninsured patients for excessive charges to settle a class-action price-gouging lawsuit.
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Archaeological site yields dental surprise
Jun 14 2006 5:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of years before screen idols began beautifying themselves with cosmetic dentistry ancient Mexicans were getting ceremonial dentures.
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Many parents unaware of asthma risk
Jun 14 2006 5:17PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - One in three fatal asthma attacks worldwide involves a child with a mild form of the disease, and nearly half of all parents are unaware of the risk, according to a global survey presented Wednesday.
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Hospitals cut errors, save over 120,000
Jun 14 2006 5:01PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Hospitals have reduced lethal mistakes and breakdowns in care to prevent the unnecessary deaths of more than 120,000 patients in the past 18 months, said leaders of an unprecedented national campaign.
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AMA seeks waiting period for drug ads
Jun 14 2006 3:21PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The American Medical Association said Wednesday it will press for a waiting period before pharmaceutical companies can advertise new prescription drugs and implantable devices to give doctors more time to study the products.
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Researcher mum in human tissue hearing
Jun 14 2006 12:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior government researcher asserted his Fifth Amendment rights Wednesday and refused to testify before Congress about allegations that he profited from sharing human tissue samples with a drug company.
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Philippines trying to cut medicine cost
Jun 14 2006 12:37PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Stroke survivor Edmund Lising is supposed to take four tablets of two medicines each day, including the anti-hypertension drug Norvasc. But to save money, the 58-year-old retiree takes only two a day, supplementing the dose each time with a fervent prayer.
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Probe says U.S. emergency care in trouble
Jun 14 2006 10:05AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Half a million times a year _ about once every minute _ an ambulance carrying a sick patient is turned away from a full emergency room and sent to another one farther away. It's a sobering symptom of how the nation's emergency-care system is overcrowded and overwhelmed, "at its breaking point," concludes a major investigation by the influential Institute of Medicine.
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