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GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care (AP) -- Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:24:03 GMT

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, shows copy of the Democratic health care reform bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. From left are, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., McConnell, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz., Sen. Lisa  Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.


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Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care (AP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:59:04 GMT

Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov. 20, 2008.  Dr. Manion a psychiatrist was fired after he complained about conditions for his patients at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., In e-mails shown to The Associated Press, Manion had questioned why the clinic, a series of bug-infested trailers with paper-thin walls, was located near a firing range on the 240-square-mile base.  (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.


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Report: Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests (AP) -- Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:55:28 GMT
AP - A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.
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Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC (AP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:24 GMT

A person is seen being vaccinated against the flu. Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Greedy)AP - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.


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SEC accuses 4 people in alleged Ponzi scheme (AP) -- Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:16:00 GMT
AP - Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors nationwide in purported eco-friendly investments.
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AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound (AP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:10 GMT

In this Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, frontline care providers like nurse Gail Symanik, left, is given the swine flu live virus vaccine nasal mist by nurse practitioner Judy Gallob at the Maricopa Medical Center, in Phoenix. When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be 'messy.' (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.


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Obesity in adolescence may increase girls' MS risk (Reuters) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:15:23 GMT
Reuters - A woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows.
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Spray May Delay Ejaculation (HealthDay) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:42 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it.
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Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops (Reuters) -- Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:29:36 GMT
Reuters - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy.
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Child abuse may shorten cell lifeline: study (AFP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:31 GMT

This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.


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Diet, Cognitive Ability May Play Role in Heart Disease (HealthDay) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:45 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and who have good cognitive function are much less likely to die from heart disease than those who have poorer cognitive function and eat fewer fruits and vegetables, a new study has found.
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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group (AP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:24:25 GMT
AP - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
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US backs new start date for cervical cancer tests (AFP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:07 GMT

A nurse administering a vaccine. Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, according to the leading US group of women's health care professionals who also recommended less frequent subsequent tests.(AFP/File/Thierry Zoccolan)AFP - Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests.


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Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved (AP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:27 GMT
AP - Babies 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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AIDS patients to president: Send more money south (AP) -- Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:09:47 GMT
AP - When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist.
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US survey shows southern counties most obese (AP) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:31:04 GMT

A resident is photographed Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 walking around downtown Lexington, Miss., in Holmes County. The first national statistics that look at obesity on the county level show that Mississippi has three counties among the worst in the nation, Humphreys, Jefferson and Holmes. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than in about 75 percent of counties in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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Folic Acid Late in Pregnancy Tied to Asthma in Kids (HealthDay) -- Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:48:56 GMT
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to women who take folic acid in late pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma, Australian researchers say.
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Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes (HealthDay) -- Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:34 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- While rates of obesity are climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey.
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