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The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control says people can best protect themselves against the swine flu threat by taking precautions they were taught as kids, like frequently washing their hands.
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The results of a long-term study suggests children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers.
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An influential doctors group is backing off its call for annual tests after age 50 to screen for prostate cancer.
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The White House brushes off questions about whether a lack of top health officials was making more difficult President Barack Obama’s response to a swine flu outbreak.
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President Barack Obama said Monday that the threat of spreading swine flu infections is a cause for concern but “not a cause for alarm” as the United States undertook close border monitoring to contain it.
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A German doctor said Friday that surgeons have successfully removed a 40-pound (18 kilogram) malignant bone tumor from a Saudi Arabian woman.
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A dozen students complained of feeling sick after drinking bottled water from a junior high school vending machine, but the FBI said Friday that no sign of tampering was found and initial tests detected no contamination.
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Twins — a boy and girl — are delivered right out on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple of months after the Department of Veterans Affairs issued the dire warnings, veterans are growing frustrated by the lack of information from the tightlipped federal agency.
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Makers of the two main antiviral flu treatments say the swine flu virus seems to respond to their medicines.
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