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| 21:33:38 GMT - 2008-10-16 |
| NJ flu-shot mandate for preschoolers draws outcry (AP) |
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As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend p... |
| 21:31:34 GMT - 2008-10-16 |
| New lab security report may signal need for pause (AP) |
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WASHINGTON - Another frightening new government report is heightening fears about the safety of U.S. biodefense laboratories that study some of the wo... |
| 19:50:34 GMT - 2008-10-16 |
| EPA tightens health standard for airborne lead (AP) |
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WASHINGTON - Three decades after removing lead from gasoline, the Environmental Protection Agency is slashing the amount of the toxic metal that will ... |
| 19:41:10 GMT - 2008-10-16 |
| Early teen use of drugs, alcohol ups risk of adult woes: study (AFP) |
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WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Children who try drugs or alcohol before age 15 run a greater risk of being substance-dependent as adults, contracting sexually tr... |
| 18:24:17 GMT - 2008-10-15 |
| Chinese youth conflicted about sex, survey finds (Reuters) |
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BEIJING (Reuters) -
A new survey of China's first generation born under the one-child policy has found they are more open but still conflicted ab... |
| 22:10:00 GMT - 2008-10-14 |
| Doctors often skip key test before surgery (Reuters) |
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CHICAGO (Reuters) -
People on Medicare who get elective surgery to open blocked heart arteries often do not get the recommended stress tests to confi... |
| 21:54:15 GMT - 2008-10-14 |
| Cancer diagnoses delayed as Dutch reactor to stay shut till Feb (AFP) |
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THE HAGUE (AFP) -
Cancer patients across Europe face further delays for diagnoses after the owner of a Dutch nuclear reactor said Tuesday it would no... |
| 17:55:04 GMT - 2008-10-14 |
| US Supreme Court rejects obese death row inmate's appeal (AFP) |
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WASHINGTON (AFP) -
A convicted rapist and murderer was put to death in Ohio Tuesday after failing to convince courts he would suffer unduly during le... |
| 16:07:59 GMT - 2008-10-14 |
| UNICEF to launch world hand-washing day (AFP) |
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GENEVA (AFP) -
The simple act of washing hands could save thousands of children's lives every day, mostly in Asia and Africa, the United Nations ... |
| 21:46:13 GMT - 2008-10-13 |
| Therapy helps hard-to-transplant get a new kidney (AP) |
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WASHINGTON - Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donate... |