The Procter & Gamble Co. has recalled some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex nasal spray after the company found bacteria in samples during routine testing.
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Bacteria Prompts Vicks Nasal Spray Recall – 1250th Edition
Friday, November 20th, 2009The Botax? Nip/Tuck Levy To Help Health Plan – 1251th Edition
Friday, November 20th, 2009The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans.
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Cost Of Child Vaccines Fall, More Kids Saved – 1245th Edition
Friday, November 20th, 2009Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
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Experts Say Radical Measures Won’t Stop H1N1 – 1244th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
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Kiss Drummer Talks About His Breast Cancer – 1236th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss speaks about his recent bout with breast cancer.
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Study: CT Scans Rule Out Heart Attacks Faster – 1237th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.
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1.5M Per Day Getting Swine Flu Vaccine In China – 1238th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009China’s health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world’s most populous country by year’s end.
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AP Poll: Support For Curbs On Malpractice Lawsuits – 1239th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009It’s an issue that Democrats would rather not deal with as they shape a health care overhaul. Yet a new Associated Press poll says most Americans support curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits.
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1 Conjoined Twin Talking After Surgery – 1240th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.
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Health Bill Nears Debate After Positive CBO Review – 1241th Edition
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Congressional budget crunchers said Thurday the Democrats’ latest health care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least 20 years, an assessment that gave supporters hope as the Senate moved gingerly toward a historic debate.
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