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Study: Most will be fat over the long haul
Oct 3 2005 10:09PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Just when we thought we couldn't get any fatter, a new study that followed Americans for three decades suggests that over the long haul, 9 out of 10 men and 7 out of 10 women will become overweight.
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Six dead of unknown illness in Canada
Oct 3 2005 5:00PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - An unknown respiratory illness has struck an Ontario nursing home, killing six elderly patients _ including two announced Monday _ and infecting at least 79 residents, employees and visitors.
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Is it time to vaccinate more kids for flu?
Oct 3 2005 2:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Preschoolers may signal the arrival of flu season: Thirty days after hacking 3- and 4-year-olds start showing up in doctors' offices and emergency rooms, flu-ridden adults follow.
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Government signs anthrax drug deal
Oct 3 2005 1:48PM (CT)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - The Department of Health and Human Services has signed a deal that could include an order for 100,000 doses of a drug to treat anthrax once it has entered the body, part of the federal government's push to stockpile drugs to counter the lethal germ.
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Some Dole salads connected to E. coli
Oct 3 2005 10:36AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to eat certain Dole pre-packaged salads that have been connected to an outbreak of E. coli infections in Minnesota.
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Gyms going after boomers, and those older
Oct 3 2005 8:51AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - At age 65, Lillian Doran knows what she doesn't want from a gym. "I don't want a place that just caters to the young and thin," she said. "I don't want to be around these babies who are a size 2."
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AIDS believed on rise again in Thailand
Oct 3 2005 8:50AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand was once considered a model in the fight against AIDS, but the man behind that success says the country of 63 million has returned to the days of ignorance and that the disease is making a deadly comeback.
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