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Diabetes drug to warn of risk to heart
Nov 14 2007 11:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government slapped a prominent, though confusing, warning on the popular diabetes drug Avandia on Wednesday _ telling patients that it may, or may not, increase the risk of heart attacks.
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Signs drive shoppers to take the stairs
Nov 14 2007 5:30PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Attention all shoppers: taking the stairs protects your heart. That's the message researchers tried at a suburban shopping mall by putting up colorful signs along the steps of a staircase, and it worked. Over six weeks, use of the stairway next to an escalator more than doubled.
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U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases
Nov 14 2007 5:29PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year _ the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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AMA recommends public cord blood banks
Nov 14 2007 5:28PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The nation's largest doctors' group this week adopted new ethical guidelines for how physicians should talk to pregnant patients about donating their babies' umbilical cord blood.
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