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Study: Losing weight can help sex life
Oct 17 2005 10:07PM (CT)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Losing a little weight can do wonders for your sex life. So says Duke University psychologist Martin Binks, who presented a study Monday at a meeting of The Obesity Society showing that shedding a few pounds can improve things in the bedroom by making people feel better about their bodies.
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Chinese man donates marrow to U.S. girl
Oct 17 2005 9:04PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A doctor from eastern China donated his bone marrow Monday in the hope of helping an 8-year-old American girl with a potentially deadly blood disease.
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9 cases of brain-wasting disease in Idaho
Oct 17 2005 8:21PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - From the moment Joan Kingsford first saw her husband stagger in his welding shop, she wanted two things: His recovery and to know what made him sick.
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Scientists study bone recovery in smokers
Oct 17 2005 7:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smokers' broken bones take a lot longer to heal. But scientists now are studying whether giving up cigarettes for even a week or two after a fracture might make the difference between a speedy recovery and months of easy-to-reinjure mushy bones.
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WHO: Expect more bird flu in other nations
Oct 17 2005 7:26PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Bird flu can be expected to spread to other countries, but the biggest threat of it mutating into a human virus that could kill millions remains in Asia, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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FDA tells doctors to stop using Enteryx
Oct 17 2005 7:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is warning doctors to stop using Enteryx, an injection used to treat acid reflux disease, saying it has been connected to serious health problems and, in at least one case, a death.
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New TB therapy may halve treatment time
Oct 17 2005 7:25PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A new therapy for treating tuberculosis could cut the current six-month treatment time in half, expand the number of patients and save millions of lives, a nonprofit that seeks treatments for the disease said Monday.
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EU team: Bird flu no threat to people
Oct 17 2005 9:33AM (CT)
KIZIKSA, Turkey (AP) - European Union officials helping investigate an outbreak of bird flu in a western Turkish village said Monday that there was no indication that the virus here, which has killed some 1,800 fowl, posed a risk to humans.
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