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Nevada helps consumers buy Canadian drugs
Jun 20 2005 10:04PM (CT)
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn has signed a bill that helps consumers buy prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies, adding Nevada to the list of states in open revolt against the Bush administration's drug importation policies.
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Study: Extra folic acid may help memory
Jun 20 2005 9:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Taking large amounts of folic acid improved the memory of older adults, Dutch scientists reported Monday in the first study to show a vitamin pill might slow the mental decline of aging.
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FDA tentatively OKs generic AIDS drugs
Jun 20 2005 7:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two generic versions of a major AIDS drug were tentatively approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
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Doctor uses animal scanner on infants
Jun 20 2005 7:46PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A scanning device designed for use on small animals undergoing tests in research labs is helping a Detroit neurologist detect brain disease in human infants.
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Team working on birth control for men
Jun 20 2005 7:39PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Four decades after the birth control pill became available to women, researchers at the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center are working to develop a similar contraceptive for men.
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Scientists find early signs of Alzheimer's
Jun 20 2005 7:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A subtle change in a memory-making brain region seems to predict who will get Alzheimer's disease nine years before symptoms appear, scientists reported Sunday.
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AMA fights refusals to fill prescriptions
Jun 20 2005 6:53PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The American Medical Association on Monday agreed to use its clout to try to ensure that pharmacists' moral objections don't block patients' access to needed medicine, including emergency contraceptives.
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Patients call doctors after Guidant recall
Jun 20 2005 6:01PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Nervous patients called their doctors Monday to have potentially faulty implanted heart devices checked out after the company offered to replace thousands of them because of flaws.
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Brain exercise is key to healthy mind
Jun 20 2005 5:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Exercise your brain. Nourish it well. And the earlier you start, the better. That's the best advice doctors can yet offer to ward off Alzheimer's disease.
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Anthrax inhibitor helps save infected mice
Jun 20 2005 4:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A small molecule helps block the deadliest part of the toxin produced by anthrax, somewhat increasing the survival of infected mice, researchers report.
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Therapies may help Alzheimer's substance
Jun 20 2005 4:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two experimental therapies show promise at preventing a sticky gunk from clogging up the brains of Alzheimer's patients, a buildup called amyloid that is the newest focus in the fight against the disease.
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WHO questions misused antiviral drug
Jun 20 2005 2:30PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The World Heath Organization asked Chinese authorities Monday to explain a report saying that in the late 1990s, they encouraged the indiscriminate use of a poultry antiviral drug that may have given rise to the resistant H5N1 strain of bird flu, an agency spokesman said.
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Twins study links causes of Alzheimer's
Jun 20 2005 6:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Education and a healthy youth may override genes in determining who gets Alzheimer's disease, says a provocative new study of dementia patients and their healthy identical twins.
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Experts say schizophrenia drug cures SARS
Jun 20 2005 6:13AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A drug used to treat schizophrenia has been shown to prevent and treat severe acute respiratory syndrome, according to Chinese and European experts at a conference in China, the government said Sunday.
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Study: Stem cells could develop into eggs
Jun 20 2005 6:12AM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Scientists in Britain have shown that stem cells extracted from human embryos can develop in the laboratory into the early forms of cells that become eggs or sperm. The research raises the possibility that one day eggs and sperm needed for infertility treatment could be grown in a dish.
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