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Guidelines coming for physical exercise
Oct 26 2006 7:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - There's a food pyramid to help guide people's eating habits, so why not one for exercise? The Bush administration said Thursday it would develop guidelines for physical activity.
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New Zealand study: Ban smoking in cars
Oct 26 2006 7:10PM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand medical researchers said Friday that laws are needed to ban smoking in vehicles where children are passengers, finding evidence that second-hand smoke causes respiratory illnesses in children.
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Wild pigs eyed in tainted spinach probe
Oct 26 2006 7:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wild pigs may have spread deadly bacteria onto a California spinach field, sparking an outbreak that killed three people and sickened more than 200 others nationwide, investigators said Thursday. They also said the outbreak appears to be over.
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Gov't panel recommends shingles vaccine
Oct 26 2006 6:56PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An influential government advisory panel recommended on Wednesday that Americans 60 and older get vaccinated against shingles, an excruciatingly painful rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox.
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Survey examines how Americans handle flu
Oct 26 2006 12:25AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ask Americans if they would hole up at home to keep from spreading a super-strain of flu, and at first they pledge to cooperate.
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