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Utilities tout tap water vs. bottled
Aug 13 2005 8:54PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - With the public's insatiable thirst for bottled water, municipal water utilities are tapping into the market to fight competition from profit-making companies.
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Non-soldiers suffer post-traumatic stress
Aug 13 2005 12:00PM (CT)
GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - For hundreds of thousands of Americans, mental illness is just a drive down the road. Ask Beth Puglisi. The 45-year-old mother was out to fill her gas tank on a bitter-cold January day last year. She turned the wheel of her pickup, felt a wrenching jolt, and watched the roadway fly into a spin.
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Ga. MD accused in flesh-eating paste aid
Aug 13 2005 8:55AM (CT)
ROCHELLE, Ga. (AP) - A doctor is accused of assisting an unlicensed practitioner who allegedly treats cancer patients with a flesh-eating herbal paste that leaves them with horrible disfigurements, including mutilated breasts.
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N.C. patients discuss surgical-tool fiasco
Aug 13 2005 8:55AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Patients whose surgeons unknowingly used instruments washed in hydraulic fluid instead of detergent held their first group meeting, sharing stories of delayed recoveries and distrust of their doctors.
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New HIV treatment strategy shows promise
Aug 13 2005 8:54AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A new treatment strategy has shown promise in helping to transform HIV into a curable infection. Preliminary research published this week in The Lancet medical journal outlines how scientists used an anti-convulsant drug to awaken dormant HIV hiding in the body, where it is temporarily invisible but still dangerous.
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FDA puts new restrictions on Accutane
Aug 13 2005 8:54AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The thousands of Americans who take the acne drug Accutane _ and people who prescribe and dispense it _ must enroll in a national registry, part of a major government program to tighten access to the medicine that causes birth defects.
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Tampa cadaver exhibit may be scuttled
Aug 13 2005 7:32AM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A decision by Florida's attorney general Friday could scuttle plans for a controversial museum exhibit featuring human bodies preserved and posed to reveal their inner workings.
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