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Guidelines coming for physical exercise
Oct 27 2006 6:39PM (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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Teen has breast removed after infection
Oct 27 2006 6:29PM (CT)
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A teenager who decided to get her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday faces reconstructive surgery after a flesh-destroying infection forced doctors to remove her left breast.
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Contaminated medicine kills 34 in Panama
Oct 27 2006 6:27PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - First comes nausea and diarrhea. Then the facial muscles relax, followed by kidney failure, paralysis and often death. It's a medical crisis in Panama, where contaminated cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment have killed 34 people since July. More than 40 others have been hospitalized, at least half in critical condition.
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British twins have different skin color
Oct 27 2006 12:34PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A pair of British twin boys has been born with different skin color, a rare genetic occurrence according to experts.
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Genital cutting on trial in Georgia case
Oct 27 2006 11:04AM (CT)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.
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Wild pigs eyed in tainted spinach probe
Oct 27 2006 9:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - After a month without any reports of illness from tainted spinach, health officials say the deadly outbreak of bacteria that killed three people and sickened more than 200 others nationally appears to be over.
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16 get food poisoning at China school
Oct 27 2006 4:24AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - At least 16 children, most between 2 and 5, were hospitalized with food poisoning after eating at a kindergarten in northwest China, state media reported on Friday.
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Gov't panel recommends shingles vaccine
Oct 27 2006 1:55AM (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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