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Accutane restrictions creating problems
Aug 28 2006 11:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Doctors and their patients continue to face problems with a program designed to limit use of an acne medication that can cause birth defects if taken by pregnant women, a dermatology group said Monday.
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Asian bird flu ruled out in Mich. swan
Aug 28 2006 6:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bird flu found in a wild swan in Michigan was not the deadly Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 141 people worldwide, the Agriculture Department said Monday.
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Medicare takes steps for senior payback
Aug 28 2006 4:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elderly and disabled Americans who got erroneous refunds from the federal government last week will get a letter this week instructing them on how to repay the money.
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HPV vaccine creates parental challenge
Aug 28 2006 4:02PM (CT)
GRIFFITH, Ind. (AP) - What they thought would be a routine physical for her volleyball team found 14-year-old Amanda Zaborowski and her mom facing a big question: Did they want Amanda to get a new vaccine that would protect her against the common and serious sexually transmitted disease HPV, or human papillomavirus?
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Separated Utah twins moved out of ICU
Aug 28 2006 3:56PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Three weeks after a marathon surgery to separate them, once-conjoined 4-year-old twins have been moved out a hospital intensive care unit _ a sign that they are well on their way to healing, their father said Monday.
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Low-risk prostate cancer poses dilemma
Aug 28 2006 3:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It took eight agonizing months for Charles Linzey to decide how to treat his early-stage prostate cancer. His wife, in contrast, had her early-stage breast cancer surgically removed just a month after diagnosis.
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Pregnant Indonesian woman takes Tamiflu
Aug 28 2006 1:15PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian doctors were monitoring a pregnant woman who started taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu after developing symptoms of bird flu, but said Monday they were confident it would not affect her 2-month-old fetus.
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South Africa ordered to offer AIDS care
Aug 28 2006 1:09PM (CT)
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - A South African judge Monday ordered the government to start providing anti-AIDS medication immediately to sick prisoners at a Durban prison, throwing out an appeal by the health and prison ministries against an earlier ruling.
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FDA weighs drug to stop premature birth
Aug 28 2006 11:52AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A drug to help women carry their babies to term that is awaiting federal approval doesn't appear to delay the earliest preterm births most often linked to death and serious health problems, according to federal documents released Monday.
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China: Tests find bird flu vaccine safe
Aug 28 2006 1:33AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese-developed vaccine against the H5N1 strain of bird flu in humans has been found safe in the first round of tests, a government news agency reported Monday.
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