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FDA sets safe level for infant formula contaminant (AP)

AP - Federal regulators set a safety threshold Friday for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula.

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29.11.2008 06:42:49 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Health Tip: Medications and Pregnancy (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- You may take certain over-the-counter supplements and medications without thinking twice. But when you're pregnant, even drugs that you can buy without a prescription can affect the developing fetus.

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29.11.2008 05:47:26 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Study Recruiting From Alzheimer's-Prone Families (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The adult children of people with the rarer, inherited form of Alzheimer's disease are being sought for a new study to better understand the biology of the brain disorder.

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29.11.2008 05:47:22 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Transfusing Anemic Cancer Patients Boosts Clot Risk (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Giving blood transfusions to treat anemia in cancer patients increases the risk of potentially lethal blood clots, say University of Rochester, N.Y., researchers.

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29.11.2008 05:47:20 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Patients treat serious illness as laughing matter (AP)

AP - The off-color jokes flew around the room. As the anecdotes got bawdier, the laughter intensified. Some recited from memory, others read from notebooks they brought along.

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28.11.2008 10:33:46 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)

AFP - Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

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27.11.2008 23:20:03 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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FTC tosses guidance on tar, nicotine in cigarettes (AP)

AP - The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the Federal Trade Commission.

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27.11.2008 13:09:09 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Fat-Sensing Hormones Might Fight Obesity (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- As you push your chair back from the Thanksgiving table this year, a molecule produced in the small intestine will be swarming through your bloodstream, ready to register on your brain the impact of the fat you've just consumed.

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27.11.2008 05:47:32 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Apnea therapy may help cognition in Alzheimer's (Reuters)

Reuters - For patients with Alzheimer's disease and obstructive sleep apnea, treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) seems to improve cognitive function, according to a report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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26.11.2008 23:34:40 - Yahoo! News: Health News

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Patient-led drug trials defy medical establishment (AP)

AP - Until last year, Alan Felzer was an energetic engineering professor who took the stairs to his classes two steps at a time. Now the 64-year-old grandfather sits strapped to a wheelchair, able to move little but his left hand, his voice a near-whisper.

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26.11.2008 23:02:33 - Yahoo! News: Health News

FDA sets safe level for infant formula contaminant (AP)

Health Tip: Medications and Pregnancy (HealthDay)

Study Recruiting From Alzheimer's-Prone Families (HealthDay)

Transfusing Anemic Cancer Patients Boosts Clot Risk (HealthDay)

Patients treat serious illness as laughing matter (AP)

India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)

FTC tosses guidance on tar, nicotine in cigarettes (AP)

Fat-Sensing Hormones Might Fight Obesity (HealthDay)

Apnea therapy may help cognition in Alzheimer's (Reuters)

Patient-led drug trials defy medical establishment (AP)

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