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What is a seizure?
Jul 30 2007 9:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A seizure is like a little storm in the brain's electrical system, and the resulting symptoms can range from a few minutes' blank stare to a full-scale collapse and loss of consciousness.
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Advisers: Avandia should stay on market
Jul 30 2007 5:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The widely used diabetes drug Avandia should remain on the market, government health advisers overwhelmingly recommended Monday, saying evidence of an increased risk of heart attack doesn't merit removal.
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Pregnancy reported despite drug warning
Jul 30 2007 3:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 120 women became pregnant in the past year while taking an acne medicine that causes birth defects _ despite being enrolled in a program designed to prevent those pregnancies from happening.
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Report: Skipping doses could be deadly
Jul 30 2007 1:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consider it the other drug problem: Millions of people don't take their medicine correctly _ or quit taking it altogether _ and the consequences can be deadly.
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Tips to help patients take meds properly
Jul 30 2007 1:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some tips to help patients take their medicines correctly, from the nonprofit National Council on Patient Information and Education:
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Boston hospital offers face transplants
Jul 30 2007 12:12PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Brigham and Women's Hospital has given a surgical team permission to perform partial face transplants to certain disfigured patients, a newspaper reported.
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Exercise, caffeine fight skin cancer
Jul 30 2007 12:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Can adding a cup or two of coffee to the exercise routine increase protection from skin cancer? New research indicates that just might be the case.
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Dengue fever rages across Asia
Jul 30 2007 11:08AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Dengue fever is raging across Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to warn that the region could face the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade.
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