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For toned look, some teens use supplements
Jul 31 2005 11:08PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Getting a sculpted look is a goal for many U.S. teens _ and while some are using dangerous supplements to get it, sizable numbers of girls and boys are engaging in more healthy strength-training, a survey found.
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Study: Women should keep their ovaries
Jul 31 2005 11:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most women getting a hysterectomy should keep their ovaries because the common extra step of removing them seems to do no good and might decrease their long-term survival, researchers report.
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Euthanasia regularly practiced in Colombia
Jul 31 2005 2:29PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Dr. Gustavo Alfonso Quintana felt helpless as cancer spread through his patient, leaving him disfigured, virtually blind and in excruciating pain. But in Colombia, the only country in Latin America where euthanasia isn't outlawed, there was one thing Quintana could do to end the 23-year-old student's suffering.
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Quadriplegic coughs with help of implant
Jul 31 2005 1:58AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Just five weeks ago, Ronnie Moore could not do what most people take for granted _ cough and clear his lungs. Now Moore, a quadriplegic, coughs by simply pressing a button on a control box on the tray of his wheelchair.
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China bans media from covering outbreak
Jul 31 2005 12:54AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Chinese authorities have banned local reporters from visiting areas where an outbreak of a pig-borne disease has killed 34 farmers, ordering newspapers to use dispatches from the state news agency, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.
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