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TB patient charged in Calif for not taki...
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 05:00 pm GMT -4
In this undated photo supplied by the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s office, Armando Rodriguez is seen wearing a protective mask. Prosecutors say 34-year-old Armando Rodriguez, a tuberculosis patient, has been arrested for refusing to…
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Healthy eating can cost less, study find...
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 03:25 pm GMT -4
This undated handout photo provided by the Agriculture Department shows a plate showing portion sizes of 100 calories worth of strawberries, broccoli, potato chips, bread and M&Ms. Is it really more expensive to eat healthy? An Agriculture…
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Scientists hunt ways to stall Alzheimer&...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 05:25 pm GMT -4
This image from the Health and Human Services new website alzheimers.gov shows the home page. The Obama administration adopts a landmark national strategy to fight Alzheimer’s on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, setting the clock ticking toward a…
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Clock ticking with new plan to fight Alz...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 03:30 am GMT -4
WASHINGTON (AP) â” The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer’s Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease. The Obama administration finalizes the landmark…
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Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 03:30 am GMT -4
LAS VEGAS (AP) â” On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his…
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French trial opens in diabetes-diet drug...
Monday, May 14th, 2012 05:20 pm GMT -4
Jacques Servier, center, founder of Servier Laboratories, sits with his lawyers during the opening of the trial at Nanterre’s court house, outside Paris, Monday, May 14, 2012. A French court has opened the first of trials over a drug for…
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Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for t...
Monday, May 14th, 2012 04:45 pm GMT -4
ATLANTA (AP) â” Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be…
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VIDEO: Why I breast-feed my toddler
Sunday, May 13th, 2012 11:40 am GMT -4
This image provided by Time magazine shows the cover of the May 21, 2012 issue with a photograph of Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, breastfeeding her 3-year-old son for a story on “attachment parenting.” Grumet, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who…
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2 molecular biologists get $500K medical...
Saturday, May 12th, 2012 03:10 am GMT -4
Molecular biologist James Darnell Jr., speaks after being awarded the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research in Albany, N.Y., on Friday, May 11, 2012. Darnell shares the $500,000 prize with Robert Roeder for their…
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Time cover masks problem: Too few kids b...
Friday, May 11th, 2012 04:50 pm GMT -4
This image provided by Time magazine shows the cover of the May 21, 2012 issue with a photograph of Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, breastfeeding her 3-year-old son for a story on “attachment parenting.” Grumet, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who…
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FDA reviews first rapid, take-home test ...
Friday, May 11th, 2012 04:20 pm GMT -4
WASHINGTON (AP) â” The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision. FDA reviewers said…
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FDA reviews first rapid, take-home test ...
Friday, May 11th, 2012 04:20 pm GMT -4
WASHINGTON (AP) â” The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision. FDA reviewers said…
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Georgia woman, 24, battles flesh-eating ...
Friday, May 11th, 2012 04:20 pm GMT -4
Jesse Duke, left, and his fiance Whitney Hall hug at a vigil for University of West Georgia student Aimee Copeland Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Melson Hall on the campus of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Ga. Doctors say Copeland,…
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Georgia woman, 24, battles flesh-eating ...
Friday, May 11th, 2012 04:20 pm GMT -4
Jesse Duke, left, and his fiance Whitney Hall hug at a vigil for University of West Georgia student Aimee Copeland Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Melson Hall on the campus of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Ga. Doctors say Copeland,…
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Advocates: HIV prevention pill could sav...
Friday, May 11th, 2012 11:45 am GMT -4
In this Thursday, May 10, 2012 photo, Dr. Lisa Sterman holds up a Truvada pill at her office in San Francisco. Sterman prescribes the drug off-label for about a dozen patients at high risk for developing AIDS. The pill, already used to treat…
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