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AP - An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before they leave their native countries, health officials say.
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AP - Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in Idaho.
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AP - The nation’s largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens’ lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama’s revised health overhaul legislation.
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AP - Kraft Foods Inc. said Wednesday that it will cut the salt in its products that are sold in North America by an average of 10 percent over the next two years to appeal to health-conscious consumers.
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hitting children harder than ever, with 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5
percent of girls classified as extremely obese in a California study,
researchers from Kaiser Permanente report.
(HealthDay)
excluded from many medical studies involving issues of sexual health such
as impotence or low sex drive, a new report finds.
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teens many health and social benefits, but parents and players also need
to be aware of the risks, experts advise.
(HealthDay)
coverage gap prices for widely used brand name drugs rose in 2010, and
price increases since 2006 have far exceeded the rate of inflation, a new
study finds.
(HealthDay)
humans, scientists have successfully used a gene-manipulation therapy to
enter tumor cells and block the production of toxic proteins that are
causing cancer, researchers report.
(LiveScience.com)
according to one of a series of papers being published in the March 17
issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association and in six of
JAMA’s sister journals this month, as well as at presentations at a
two-hour media briefing today at the National Press Club in Washington,
D.C.
(HealthDay)
(swine) flu were 13 times more likely to become critically ill than
non-pregnant women infected with H1N1, according to a report from
researchers in Australia and New Zealand.
(Reuters)
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