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Companies argue over whole grain standards
Jun 17 2005 8:39PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Anyone who has ever chosen between toast and cereal for breakfast can relate to a fight between food companies over which one counts as an "excellent" source of whole grains. The answer is worth billions of dollars to cereal-makers such as General Mills Inc. and bread and pasta makers such as Sara Lee Corp., Campbell Soup Co., and ConAgra Foods Inc.
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Fla. babies born HIV positive shrinking
Jun 17 2005 8:34PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A battle in the war against AIDS _ one involving its youngest victims _ is being won in dramatic fashion. The number of babies who contract the HIV virus that causes AIDS before or during childbirth has plunged in the last decade and so far this year no babies have been born HIV-positive in Florida, health officials said Friday.
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Rudy Giuliani speaks on prostate cancer
Jun 17 2005 8:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Rudy Giuliani was in the operating room, half-sedated for his prostate cancer procedure, when he saw a big piece of video equipment being wheeled into the room.
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Oregon resumes medical marijuana program
Jun 17 2005 8:26PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon resumed issuing medical-marijuana cards Friday, deciding the program could continue despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing federal prosecution for possessing the drug.
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Newborn Cool-Cap device nears market
Jun 17 2005 8:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A device that chills newborns' brains moved a step closer to the market Friday: The government's scientific advisers ruled the Cool-Cap may help stave off brain damage in certain infants deprived of oxygen at birth.
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FDA restricts access to lung cancer drug
Jun 17 2005 8:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government will allow only a few thousand lung cancer patients to continue using a last-chance therapy, after the highly touted Iressa failed to live up to its promise for most users.
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New blood vessels grown from older cells
Jun 17 2005 8:23PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Scientists reported they have grown new blood vessels with cells from sick older people _ the type of patients most likely to need such transplants if the technique is perfected. The approach, outlined in The Lancet medical journal this week, could be used for heart or other bypass surgery in the elderly whose own veins may not be suitable.
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Nancy Reagan eyes Senate stem-cell support
Jun 17 2005 5:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nancy Reagan is poised to take on President Bush _ quietly, behind the scenes _ over stem cell research, anxious to put federal funding behind research that could cure Alzheimer's disease suffered by her late husband.
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Patients urged to check defibrillators
Jun 17 2005 2:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Heart patients using implantable defibrillators that have been recalled need to contact their doctors to determine what to do, the Food and Drug Administration recommends.
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Ex-college hoopster joins AIDS fight
Jun 17 2005 1:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Stephan Bekale came to the United States to pursue the basketball career he had long dreamed of, like so many of the children in Gabon who look up to the NBA's stars.
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Wisconsin may ban morning-after pill
Jun 17 2005 10:22AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin Assembly approved a ban on the so-called morning-after pill on state college campuses, a restriction that would be the first in the nation if approved.
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Gov't finds highest, lowest marijuana use
Jun 17 2005 7:55AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Both college towns, Boston and Boulder, Colo., share another distinction: They lead the nation in marijuana use. Northwestern Iowa and southern Texas have the lowest use.
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FDA panel recommends heart drug for blacks
Jun 17 2005 2:22AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A drug targeted specifically for black Americans with heart problems is on track to become the first drug in the U.S. marketed to a specific racial group.
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