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Health clinics expand in retail settings
Aug 10 2007 11:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Increasingly, American consumers are shopping for health care the way they buy a hamburger or milk shake at a fast-food chain: By standing in line at a local store under a menu.
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Pfizer facing 4 court cases in Nigeria
Aug 10 2007 11:28PM (CT)
KANO, Nigeria (AP) - A security guard in this dusty Nigerian city is living with tragedy _ a 14-year-old son whose dazed eyes, slow speech and uneven gait signal brain damage. Mustapha Mohammed says he knows who to blame _ Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker.
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Pfizer facing 4 court cases in Nigeria
Aug 10 2007 11:28PM (CT)
KANO, Nigeria (AP) - A security guard in this dusty Nigerian city is living with tragedy _ a 14-year-old son whose dazed eyes, slow speech and uneven gait signal brain damage. Mustapha Mohammed says he knows who to blame _ Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker.
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Pfizer facing 4 court cases in Nigeria
Aug 10 2007 11:28PM (CT)
KANO, Nigeria (AP) - A security guard in this dusty Nigerian city is living with tragedy _ a 14-year-old son whose dazed eyes, slow speech and uneven gait signal brain damage. Mustapha Mohammed says he knows who to blame _ Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker.
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Army starts new psychiatric program
Aug 10 2007 10:18PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Army has launched a nationwide program to teach soldiers and their families how to identify signs of possible psychiatric injuries suffered in the war on terrorism that may have gone unnoticed.
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Study: Obese kids are absent more
Aug 10 2007 8:57PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Obese elementary schoolchildren miss a couple more school days on average than their normal-weight classmates, according to a study that says being fat is a better predictor for absenteeism than any other factor.
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FDA links oysters to bacterial illness
Aug 10 2007 7:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration on Friday advised people not to eat raw oysters harvested in a particular area of Washington state, citing bacterial illnesses that have sickened at least six people in that state and California.
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Feds pull funding for L.A. hospital
Aug 10 2007 7:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal regulators said Friday that they are pulling $200 million in funding from a troubled hospital that serves one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, forcing it to all but shut down.
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FDA: Heartburn drugs seem OK for heart
Aug 10 2007 5:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The popular heartburn drugs Prilosec and Nexium don't appear to spur heart problems, say preliminary U.S. and Canadian probes announced Thursday.
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WHO optimistic on global polio goals
Aug 10 2007 5:05PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Four children in the southern African country of Angola have been infected with polio, but the number of cases around the world has been cut in half so far this year, the U.N. health agency said Friday.
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UK must change Alzheimer's drug advice
Aug 10 2007 5:02PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that Britain's state-run health service must change the way it advises doctors on supplying some Alzheimer's patients with drugs to treat the brain-destroying disease.
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