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The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday.
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A flu shot for the holidays?
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Federal health regulators are warning doctors about 11 recalled lots of an intravenous hypertension drug made by the Medicines Co. that are contaminated with bits of steel.
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Surgeons on Friday successfully removed four sewing needles from the lung and near the heart of a Brazilian toddler, allegedly plunged into him by his stepfather during a monthlong series of bizarre rituals.
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Makers of toys and other children’s products win a reprieve from legislation passed more than a year ago after a holiday season marred by scores of lead-tainted toy recalls.
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South Africa’s former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who gained notoriety for her dogged promotion of lemons, garlic and olive oil to treat AIDS, has died. She was 69.
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When visiting with your elderly parents this holiday season, keep this checklist in mind to determine if your parents are no longer able to live on their own.
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A 2-year-old boy with more than 40 sewing needles stuck in him is being airlifted to another hospital in northeastern Brazil because two of the needles are close to his heart, an official said Thursday.
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After weeks of shortages, swine flu vaccine is plentiful enough that nearly half the states now say everyone can get it, not just people in high-risk groups.
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Elan Corp. Plc and Transition Therapeutics Inc. says they’ve eliminated two of three doses used in a mid-stage study of a potential Alzheimer’s disease treatment after nine patients died while receiving the higher doses.
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