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Anthrax dispute suggests Bioshield woes
Sep 30 2006 10:48PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - By now, millions of anthrax vaccine shots developed through cutting-edge genetic engineering were supposed to be filling a new national stockpile of biodefense drugs.
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Food illnesses decline, CDC reports
Sep 30 2006 6:34PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade, with illness occurring at record-low rates, new federal statistics show.
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Whooping cough breaks out at hospital
Sep 30 2006 3:47PM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Whooping cough has been diagnosed in more than two dozen medical workers at the same hospital in the past three weeks, and 55 others who have shown symptoms are being tested, a spokesman said Saturday.
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FDA lifts ban on most fresh spinach
Sep 30 2006 1:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Most fresh spinach in the United States is "as safe as it was" before a nationwide E. coli outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, revising a two-week-old consumer warning.
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Vioxx suits surge to beat deadline
Sep 30 2006 11:56AM (CT)
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) - A surge of lawsuits has swamped courthouses just ahead of the two-year anniversary of drugmaker Merck & Co. pulling its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx from the market.
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For these writers, cancer is the subject
Sep 30 2006 11:34AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - She married in Arizona on a Saturday. On Sunday, her groom took a plane to New York and his new job. On Monday, she set off in the U-Haul truck for the 2,000-mile drive to meet him.
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China reports new H5N1 bird flu outbreak
Sep 30 2006 10:01AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu killed 985 chickens in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia, a state news agency reported Saturday.
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Mumps cases in Ill. county rise to 63
Sep 30 2006 9:49AM (CT)
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - The number of mumps cases in DuPage County has increased to 63 this year, with 40 cases confirmed at Wheaton College, health officials said Friday. Medical professionals in this suburban Chicago county normally see only three cases per year and are now wondering when the outbreak will end.
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Frist unveils minority health bill
Sep 30 2006 1:42AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is aligning himself with Democrats in hopes of enhancing his political legacy through an effort to improve minority health care.
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