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Probe faults prescription drug directory
Aug 14 2006 8:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal prescription drug directory fails to list more than 9,000 medications but catalogs tens of thousands more that are no longer on the market, according to a report Monday.
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Hayfever season to be intense in N.J.
Aug 14 2006 6:57PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Hay fever sufferers: Grab the tissues and start taking your allergy medicine. You're in for a long, brutal season of sneezing, congestion, scratchy throat and irritated eyes, allergy specialists say.
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Back to school brings sports, injuries
Aug 14 2006 6:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's that time of year: Kids hit the sports fields running, and often hobble back off. Back to school means back to organized sports for more than 30 million children and teenagers _ and roughly 2.5 million emergency-room visits during the year for resulting injuries.
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Black leaders urge fight against AIDS
Aug 14 2006 6:54PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - It is time for the African-American community "to face the fact that AIDS has become a black disease" and find ways to defeat it, said the chairman of the NAACP at the international AIDS summit Monday.
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White House: Lesser bird flu may be here
Aug 14 2006 6:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have discovered possible bird flu in two wild swans on the shore of Lake Erie _ but it does not appear to be the much-feared Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 138 people elsewhere in the world.
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Bird flus, one less risky than another
Aug 14 2006 1:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bird flu detected in two swans in Michigan appears to be the less dangerous, low-pathogenic version of the virus, according to government officials.
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5 new Encephalitis B cases seen in China
Aug 14 2006 12:35PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China reported five more infections Monday in an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease Encephalitis B in a northern city which has so far killed 19, state media reported.
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N.H. boy still recovering from Triple-E
Aug 14 2006 12:20PM (CT)
GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (AP) - Linda and Chris Burke don't know when or where their 5-year-old son was bitten by a mosquito carrying Eastern equine encephalitis. They only know he hasn't been the same since.
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