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Britain launches $4B immunization plan
Sep 9 2005 10:20PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - British Treasury chief Gordon Brown on Friday launched a $4 billion program to provide lifesaving immunizations in poor countries.
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Calif.'s stem cell agency awards grants
Sep 9 2005 7:58PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's $3 billion stem cell agency awarded its first research grants Friday despite legal challenges that put its future in doubt.
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Infant mortality drops 6 percent in NYC
Sep 9 2005 7:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Deaths of infants under the age of one in New York City decreased by 6 percent between 2003 and 2004, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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FDA panel endorses new diabetes pill
Sep 9 2005 7:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after recommending the first inhaled form of insulin to treat diabetes, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday endorsed a new pill that helps control blood sugar levels as well as cholesterol in people with the most common form of the condition.
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Senate OKs restrictions on cold medicines
Sep 9 2005 7:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sales of over-the-counter cold remedies used to make methamphetamine would be restricted under a measure approved by the Senate on Friday.
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Trauma surgeon criticizes federal system
Sep 9 2005 3:59PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - His house on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans bears the name Tsa-La-Gi, "medicine man" in Cherokee. If he ever gets back to it, Dr. Norman McSwain may want to rename it "rain man."
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Doctors emerging as heroes of Katrina
Sep 9 2005 3:51PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Dr. Jessica Lee fought the urge to panic. All week long, women stranded by Hurricane Katrina had been giving birth in primitive conditions at New Orleans' University Hospital, their only after-effect a colorful story to tell their children someday.
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Dutch Health Ministry orders flu medicine
Sep 9 2005 11:55AM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch government has ordered five million doses of anti-viral medicines to prepare for the possibility of a flu epidemic, the Health Ministry said Friday.
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Study: Breakfast helps girls stay slim
Sep 9 2005 7:27AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Girls who regularly ate breakfast, particularly one that includes cereal, were slimmer than those who skipped the morning meal, according to a study that tracked nearly 2,400 girls for 10 years.
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Embryo may be created from two women
Sep 9 2005 7:04AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Britain has granted permission to scientists to create a human embryo with genetic material from two mothers, officials said.
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Pa. schools mandate body-mass calculations
Sep 9 2005 6:43AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - As they wait for their children's first report card to come home this year, elementary-school parents across Pennsylvania also can expect to receive a separate report on a key indicator of their children's health.
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BYU named nation's fittest college campus
Sep 9 2005 6:42AM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - On those annual lists of the nation's college campuses, Brigham Young University is probably best known for its regular ranking near the bottom when it comes to party schools. But now the university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has earned a new distinction: fittest college campus.
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FDA advisers recommend inhaled insulin
Sep 9 2005 5:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of people with diabetes may have an alternative to some or all of their daily needles if the government adopts an advisory panel's recommendation to approve the first insulin that can be inhaled.
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