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Study: Waltzing helps mend hearts
Nov 12 2006 9:28PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Italian researchers have come up with a novel way for cardiac rehabilitation patients to exercise their damaged hearts without having to squeeze into spandex or gyrate in a gym: waltzing.
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Muslim clerics fighting polio in India
Nov 12 2006 5:47PM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Farzaan Siddaqui beat up the last health workers who visited his home to vaccinate his children for polio. Like many Muslims in India, he thought the program was an infidel plot to make his community infertile.
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Poor Pakistanis donate kidneys for money
Nov 12 2006 3:54PM (CT)
JANDALA, Pakistan (AP) - Nassem Kausar has done it. So, she says, have her sister, six brothers, five sisters-in-law and two nephews. Each has sold a kidney to a trade that has led Pakistan's media to dub the country a "kidney bazaar."
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Brazilian woman survives 6 shots to head
Nov 12 2006 5:06AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A woman was released from the hospital a day after she was shot in the head six times in an attack police blamed on her ex-husband, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
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U.N.: Lack of sanitation has human cost
Nov 12 2006 3:09AM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The humble flush toilet, taken for granted in most rich countries, could be a cheap but powerful tool to reduce childhood deaths and boost global development, a U.N. report said Thursday.
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Broad recall of acetaminophen under way
Nov 12 2006 3:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Check your medicine cabinet: Millions of bottles of the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen _ some sold as long as three years ago _ are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments.
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