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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:03:52 GMT
 AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
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Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:14:21 GMT
AP - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
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CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:03:10 GMT
 AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.
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Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:04:34 GMT
 AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
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Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:15:30 GMT
AP - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.
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As You Age, Better Health Means Better Sex
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:48:56 GMT
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Better health translates into
better sex lives, with healthy people more likely to engage in sex (and
good sex at that) and to express an interest in sex, new research
finds.
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Young Kids to Benefit From Broader Pneumococcal Vaccine
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:49:39 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- The recent approval of a
new, more broadly effective pneumococcal vaccine (PCV13) for young
children could greatly reduce the prevalence of pneumococcal disease in
that age group, a new government report suggests.
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