Pregnant Women Face Snags In Getting Flu Shot – 940th Edition

September 29th, 2009

Only about one in seven pregnant women gets a flu shot each winter because of the obstacles they face.
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585K Kids Have Bad Drug Reactions Per Year – 939th Edition

September 29th, 2009

Unknown allergies and accidental overdoses leave over half a million kids with bad side effects each year.
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Intense Tracking For Swine Flu Shot’s Side Effects – 938th Edition

September 29th, 2009

More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you’re one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?
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What’s Ugly, Smells, Kills Dogs? Blue-Green Algae – 937th Edition

September 29th, 2009

Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that’s killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.
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Toxins Found In School Drinking Water – 936th Edition

September 29th, 2009

The drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and other toxins.
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Fed. Program Misses Problem Nursing Homes – 935th Edition

September 29th, 2009

A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report.
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Wrong-Embryo Baby’s Parents Laud ‘Guardian Angel’ – 934th Edition

September 29th, 2009

An Ohio woman who gave birth to a baby boy after a fertility clinic implanted her with the wrong embryo is a “guardian angel,” the boy’s biological parents said Saturday.
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Ginsburg Released From Hospital, Back To Work – 933th Edition

September 29th, 2009

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery earlier this year, made a quick return to work Friday after feeling ill at the office and spending the night in a Washington hospital as a precaution.
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Docs Unsure If Milk-Duct Cells Are ‘Cancer’ – 932th Edition

September 29th, 2009

Some doctors think that when then find a growth in milk ducts, they should avoid the words “cancer” and “carcinoma.”
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Clues May Let You Know When Someone Lies – 931th Edition

September 29th, 2009

A new movie imagines a world where nobody knows how to lie. But in ours, people do it all the time — and scream about it in Congress. Find some ways to detect a falsehood.
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