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RJ Reynolds to stop print ads next year
Nov 27 2007 10:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which has been under intense pressure from anti-smoking groups and members of Congress over print ads for its cigarettes, said Tuesday it would not advertise its brands in newspapers or consumer magazines next year.
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Hospital makes 3rd brain surgery mistake
Nov 27 2007 9:19PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Hospital has been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient's head.
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Cancer institute updates risk calculator
Nov 27 2007 6:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A widely used tool for predicting a woman's risk of breast cancer is getting an update _ to better reflect black women's risk. At issue is the National Cancer Institute's online risk calculator. Answer a few questions _ such as current age, age when your first child was born, family history of breast cancer _ and learn your odds of getting breast cancer in the next five years.
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Smoking snapshots spark debate in India
Nov 27 2007 6:40PM (CT)
MUMBAI, India (AP) - Health activists said Tuesday that powerful tobacco industry groups could scuttle a federal government decision to require photographs of cancer patients on cigarette packs sold in India by next month. Several other countries have tried similar strategies to discourage smoking.
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Smoking snapshots spark debate in India
Nov 27 2007 6:40PM (CT)
MUMBAI, India (AP) - Health activists said Tuesday that powerful tobacco industry groups could scuttle a federal government decision to require photographs of cancer patients on cigarette packs sold in India by next month. Several other countries have tried similar strategies to discourage smoking.
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States slow to ban restaurant trans fats
Nov 27 2007 6:40PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - States from Connecticut to California have looked this year to mimic the success of large cities like New York in banning artery-clogging trans fats from restaurants.
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Center seeks new diarrheal disease tests
Nov 27 2007 6:40PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Researchers hope to develop faster and better tests for diarrheal diseases with the help of a $5.6 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to a vaccine development center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the school announced Tuesday.
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Little milk, exercise hurts kids' bones
Nov 27 2007 6:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.
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FDA advisers back new warning on Tamiflu
Nov 27 2007 6:33PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The most widely used flu drug in the world should carry a stronger warning label about psychiatric problems seen in a handful of patients, government advisers said Tuesday.
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Studies: Cyberbullying is on the rise
Nov 27 2007 6:15PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - As many as one in three U.S. children have been ridiculed or threatened through computer messages, according to one estimate of the emerging problem of cyberbullying.
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