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Device created for 'red wine headache'
Nov 1 2007 10:02PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The effects are all too familiar: a fancy dinner, some fine wine and then, a few hours later, a racing heart and a pounding headache. But a device developed by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could help avoid the dreaded "red wine headache."
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Brain scan abnormalities not uncommon
Nov 1 2007 8:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.
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Poll: Most OK birth control for schools
Nov 1 2007 8:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
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Poll: Most OK birth control for schools
Nov 1 2007 8:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
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Poll: Most OK birth control for schools
Nov 1 2007 8:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
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Medicare issues rate cut for doctors
Nov 1 2007 8:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Doctors who treat the elderly and disabled will face a 10 percent cut in their reimbursement rates from Medicare next year under a federal rule issued Thursday.
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HIV infection rate drops in Zimbabwe
Nov 1 2007 8:08PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe has registered a 2.5 percent decline in HIV infection rates, and the number of AIDS deaths also is dropping, the government said Thursday, crediting its "tireless efforts" to fight the pandemic.
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Doctors urged on signs of lead poisoning
Nov 1 2007 8:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Children with blood lead levels lower than the U.S. standard may still suffer lower IQs or other problems, a government advisory panel said Thursday as it urged doctors to be more alert to signs of lead poisoning.
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Foreign drug makers face few inspections
Nov 1 2007 8:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two-thirds of the foreign drug manufacturers subject to inspection by the Food and Drug Administration may never have been visited by agency inspectors, a government watchdog reported to Congress Thursday.
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Firm: US drug sales will fall 17 percent
Nov 1 2007 5:18AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pharmaceutical sales in the U.S. will drop to a third of global sales in 2008, from a 50 percent share two years ago, a report released Thursday says.
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