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Activists: Tobacco targets Hispanic kids
Nov 17 2005 11:09PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Anti-smoking activists are accusing the tobacco industry of increasing efforts to sell cigarettes to Hispanics, especially Hispanic youths with print ads featuring sexy young musicians.
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Doctors finish mother-to-son nerve surgery
Nov 17 2005 9:03PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Doctors performed a rare mother-to-son nerve transplant Thursday, hoping to restore the use of a 19-year-old's left hand. The six-hour surgery on Nick Anderson of Atco, N.J., went as planned, and doctors should see the first signs of success in a few months, said Eric Vohr, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Study: Diet pills need boost from exercise
Nov 17 2005 8:56PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - There's no free lunch with diet pills, new research concludes: They work much better accompanied by the hard work of dieting and exercise.
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Comfort foods: Women like sugar, men meat
Nov 17 2005 8:49PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Comfort food for women often means snuggling up with tub of mint chocolate ice cream to wallow in their blues. But for men, comfort foods serve as a reward when life is looking rosy.
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HIV infection rate decreasing in blacks
Nov 17 2005 8:47PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The rate of newly reported HIV cases among blacks has been dropping by about 5 percent a year since 2001, the government said Thursday. But blacks are still eight times more likely than whites to be diagnosed with the AIDS virus.
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FDA agrees to faster review of Tysabri
Nov 17 2005 7:06PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Federal regulators have agreed to a faster review of an application to resume selling a multiple sclerosis drug removed from the market because of safety concerns, the drug's makers said Thursday.
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FDA to probe deaths of kids on Tamiflu
Nov 17 2005 3:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The deaths of 12 Japanese children who had taken Tamiflu is to be discussed on Friday by a U.S. government committee conducting a routine annual review of the safety of the anti-flu medication and seven other drugs.
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China's bird flu efforts shine
Nov 17 2005 1:12PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Health workers arrived 30 minutes after Qin Zhijun reported finding dead chickens. Within 11 hours, tests confirmed it was bird flu and his flock of 7,000 birds was destroyed.
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WHO: China should prepare for more cases
Nov 17 2005 10:58AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China should prepare for more bird flu outbreaks in poultry and possibly more human cases as cold winter weather sets in, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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Study questions health effects of decaf
Nov 17 2005 10:58AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Fresh questions are percolating about the health effects of coffee, this time the decaffeinated variety. One of the first substantial studies to test it like a drug instead of just asking people how much of it they consumed found higher blood levels of cholesterol-precursor fats in those drinking decaf vs. regular coffee or none at all.
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