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WHO won't push for generic bird flu drug
Sep 19 2005 9:34PM (CT)
NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) - The World Health Organization on Monday rejected suggestions that it push for a lower-cost, generic version of a patented drug to treat people with the deadly bird flu virus in poor countries.
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Obesity increases risk of miscarriage
Sep 19 2005 8:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pounds can become an obsession during pregnancy, but they should be a concern before conception. Obesity increases women's risk of miscarriage and other serious, even life-threatening, complications.
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Mad-cow related ban to be tightened
Sep 19 2005 7:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will close a gap in its defense against mad cow disease by changing feed regulations to mirror those in Canada, FDA Commissioner Lester M. Crawford said Monday.
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Heroin use high among young N.J. adults
Sep 19 2005 7:24PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Heroin is used by 18- to 25-year-olds in New Jersey at more than twice the national average, and officials who released a report on drug abuse Monday said the highly addictive drug is easy to get in the Garden State.
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Study finds no best schizophrenia drug
Sep 19 2005 7:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's leading schizophrenia drug doesn't work much better than an older, far cheaper medicine, says a major government study that found no clear winner in comparing treatments for the devastating mental illness.
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Japanese encephalitis death toll rises
Sep 19 2005 7:20PM (CT)
GORAKHPUR, India (AP) - An encephalitis outbreak has killed nearly 1,000 people _ almost all of them children _ in India and neighboring Nepal, as too few doctors struggle to care for thousands of sick children in outdated hospitals.
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U.S., South Africa fight AIDS in military
Sep 19 2005 12:57PM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Across Africa, hospital wards are filling with military casualties. The cause: not another African conflict _ but AIDS.
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