Articles filed under Health
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Panel: Use new meningitis vaccines only for outbreaksFeb 25, 2015 10:00 pm - ATLANTA (AP) - A federal panel is recommending that two new meningitis vaccines only be used during outbreaks and not be given routinely to teens and college students. T...
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Panel: Base quarantines, other outbreak decisions on scienceFeb 25, 2015 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Attempts to quarantine health workers returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa were a mistake, the president's bioethics advisers said Thursday. The U...
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Prosecutor: Former Democratic powerbroker sold influenceFeb 25, 2015 10:00 pm - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former Democratic power broker sold his political influence in schemes including one that involved a multibillion-dollar megamall project that has ...
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If Supreme Court says no, they'd lose health insurance helpFeb 25, 2015 10:00 pm - CHICAGO (AP) - Millions of Americans have a big personal stake in next Wednesday's Supreme Court challenge to the nation's health care law: Can they legally continue to ...
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Study: Nasty stomach bug much more common than thought in USFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - ATLANTA (AP) - A nasty intestinal bug sickens nearly twice as many Americans each year as was previously thought, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the prob...
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Call for study to settle if anesthesia poses risk to babiesFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Studies of baby animals have long suggested that going under anesthesia can have some harmful effects on a developing brain. Now some scientists want t...
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US new home sales fall slightly in JanuaryFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Sales of new U.S. homes were basically flat in January, evidence that recent job gains and relatively low mortgage rates have yet to spur the real esta...
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HIV outbreak in 5 Indiana counties linked to needle-sharingFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More than two dozen people have tested positive for HIV in five southern Indiana counties during the past two months, and state health officials said...
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Ebola doctor: Media, politicians fueled the public's fearFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - A doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola virus and rode the subway system and dined out before he developed symptoms said the media and politicians could...
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UK 1st country to allow creation of embryos from 3 peopleFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON (AP) - Britain has become the first country in the world to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people, a technique intended to help mothers...