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Tobacco may kill 1 billion this century
Jul 10 2006 10:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Curbing tobacco use and taking other steps to eliminate some of the most common risk factors for cancer could save millions of lives over the next few decades, health officials said Monday.
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Study: Eating fish helps protect eyesight
Jul 10 2006 10:49PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Two new studies give one more reason to eat a diet rich in fish: prevention of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in old age.
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More states test newborns for disorders
Jul 10 2006 10:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - States have nearly doubled the number of newborns being tested for a host of rare but devastating genetic diseases _ yet where you live still determines just how protected your baby will be, the March of Dimes reports.
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More getting Parkinson's before age 50
Jul 10 2006 5:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Campbell walked out of the support group for Parkinson's disease in shock: His fellow patients were all 20 or 30 years older, with symptoms very different from his own _ leading him to doubt, even disobey, his doctor's treatment advice.
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Feds find drug-benefit call center problems
Jul 10 2006 5:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Seniors should think twice about relying on guidance from private insurers when selecting a Medicare drug plan, government investigators indicate in a new report.
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Conjoined twin dies 4 days after surgery
Jul 10 2006 12:32PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - One of the 10-month-old conjoined twins who were separated in an unusually complex surgery last week died Monday, a Shanghai hospital official said.
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