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Pill helps alcoholics taper off drinking
Oct 9 2007 10:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A migraine pill seems to help alcoholics taper off their drinking without detox treatment, researchers report, offering a potential option for a hard-to-treat problem. The drug, Topamax, works in a different way than three other medications already approved for treating alcoholism.
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Pill helps alcoholics taper off drinking
Oct 9 2007 10:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A migraine pill seems to help alcoholics taper off their drinking without detox treatment, researchers report, offering a potential option for a hard-to-treat problem. The drug, Topamax, works in a different way than three other medications already approved for treating alcoholism.
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Study: Low-fat diet may cut cancer risk
Oct 9 2007 7:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Cutting dietary fat may also cut the risk of ovarian cancer, says a study of almost 40,000 older women that found the first hard evidence that menu changes protect against this particularly lethal cancer.
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Study: Majority of states bar HIV tests
Oct 9 2007 7:01PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - More than 30 states have laws barring doctors from heeding a call by U.S. health officials to routinely test Americans for the AIDS virus, researchers report. And states don't seem to be in any rush to change that.
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Experts: Heart defect usually not fatal
Oct 9 2007 5:28PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The heart problem blamed in the death of a Chicago marathoner is rarely dangerous and people who have it shouldn't stop exercising, heart experts said.
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Studies tout treating mini-strokes fast
Oct 9 2007 7:00AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Treating patients quickly for mini-strokes could dramatically cut the risk of a major stroke later, report two studies that could change standard treatment and potentially save millions of people from stroke's damaging effects.
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