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Study dispels some sexual behavior myths
Oct 31 2006 11:13PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - In the first comprehensive global study of sexual behavior, British researchers found that people aren't losing their virginity at ever younger ages, married people have the most sex, and there is no firm link between promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Study links SIDS with brain stem defects
Oct 31 2006 9:43PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - In a small study with big implications, researchers found some of the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome _ a medical and sometimes legal mystery once known as crib death _ may be caused by brain stem abnormalities.
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Study: Divorced women have more illness
Oct 31 2006 9:37PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Women may give up more than a husband by divorcing _ they may also lose some of their good health, according to a study by Iowa State University.
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PSA level rising can be cancer indicator
Oct 31 2006 8:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - How fast a man's PSA level is rising _ even before it's high enough to trigger a doctor's alarm _ may signal that he has a life-threatening form of prostate cancer when the tumor is still small enough to be curable, researchers said Tuesday.
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NY plan: Some menus should list calories
Oct 31 2006 8:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - How would you like that burger with a side order of guilt? As part of its assault on obesity, New York City's health department has a plan to require some restaurants to list the calorie content of their foods right on the menu, leaving diners no choice but to learn a meal's potential effect on their waistlines.
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Salmonella outbreak appears over
Oct 31 2006 6:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A salmonella outbreak that sickened dozens of people in 19 states appears to be over, while investigators remain unsure how it began, a federal official said Tuesday.
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Black suicide attempts worse than thought
Oct 31 2006 4:38PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - More U.S. blacks attempt suicide than previously thought, according to a landmark study that could help explode the myth that black suicides are rare because of a mind-set that took hold during slavery.
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NYC ponders ban on trans fats
Oct 31 2006 4:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When some KFC restaurants secretly switched to frying oil free of trans fats, customers didn't notice. Attempts to rid the chain's popular biscuits of a shortening filled with the artery-clogging substance did not go as smoothly.
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