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Nicaraguan toxic drink deaths stabilize
Sep 12 2006 10:37PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - The number of people dying from drinking methanol-laced liquor stabilized Tuesday after health officials administered a drug to neutralize the toxin in patients' blood. But authorities warned that scores of people could suffer permanent blindness and brain damage.
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Mich. bill proposes cancer vaccination
Sep 12 2006 7:10PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers.
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Couple loses challenge on blood test law
Sep 12 2006 7:05PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A federal judge has refused to throw out Nebraska's one-of-a-kind newborn blood screening law. Ray and Louise Spiering of Saunders County filed a lawsuit challenging the law in 2004, arguing that the mandatory blood test would violate a tenet of their religious beliefs as members of the Church of Scientology.
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Men donating kidneys in four-way swap
Sep 12 2006 7:03PM (CT)
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) - Two men are donating kidneys to each other's wives in a four-way surgical swap at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. It is the first time such a swap among healthy, living donors and patients with kidney failure has taken place at the hospital.
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Green tea: Mixed review as health aid
Sep 12 2006 7:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Can drinking green tea really protect against two big killers, strokes and cancer? A huge study in Japan suggests yes and no: It might lower your stroke risk but won't save you from cancer.
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Antibiotic fails to win panel's support
Sep 12 2006 5:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Use of the antibiotic Factive should not be expanded to include treatment of acute sinus infections, federal health advisers recommended Tuesday.
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Medicare premium hike less than expected
Sep 12 2006 4:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most elderly and disabled people on Medicare will see their premiums rise to $93.50 per month next year, a 5.6 percent increase. That's lower than anticipated.
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Stanford won't let doctors accept gifts
Sep 12 2006 4:27PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Stanford University will bar physicians working at its two hospitals from accepting even the tiniest gifts from drug industry sales representatives to try to eliminate corporate influence from medical decisions, the school announced Tuesday.
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VA study doubts Gulf War syndrome
Sep 12 2006 1:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The unexplained symptoms that afflict thousands of Gulf War veterans don't constitute a single illness, a federally funded study concludes.
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Experts urge fight against TB in Africa
Sep 12 2006 11:15AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Public health experts accused the World Bank Tuesday of neglecting Africa's fight against tuberculosis, saying the institution should spend more fighting a disease whose resurgence in recent years has been linked to AIDS.
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Where you live linked to life expectancy
Sep 12 2006 2:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation's health disparities, differences so stark that a report issued Monday contends it's as if there are eight separate Americas instead of one.
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