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Safety Board to Study Requiring Condoms in Porn
California's worker safety board says a proposal to require porn actors to wear condoms during shoots needs more study.
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Calif. Considers Smoking Ban At All State Parks
California lawmakers are considering what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks.
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Lawmakers Struggle to Finish Health Overhaul Bill
Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul.
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Court Says Thimerosal Did Not Cause Autism
The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection.
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Panel: Women Need Chance to Avoid Repeat C-Section
A government panel says too many women who want to avoid a second Cesarean-section for child birth are being denied the chance.
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Tainted Ingredient Sold After Salmonella Found
The company responsible for a ballooning recall of processed foods continued to manufacture and distribute a flavor-enhancing ingredient for a month after tests confirmed it was made with contaminated equipment, according to a Food and Drug Administration report.
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Researchers: AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow
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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Nevada Board Approves Diet Drug
A state panel has voted to remove a diet drug from a list of substances that physicians can't prescribe in Nevada.
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Researchers: AIDS Virus Can Hide in Bone Marrow
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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Cancer Society Stops Urging Docs to Offer PSA Test
The American Cancer Society is urging doctors to make clearer to men that the test used to screen for prostate cancer has limits and may lead to unnecessary treatments that do more harm than good.
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Parents Say Doctors Hastened Death For Dying Kids
It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate - a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request.
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1 In 4 Parents Buys Unproven Vaccine-Autism Link
One in four U.S. parents believes some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated.
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Dems, GOP Find Common Health Ground... But Not Too Much
Democrats and Republicans found plenty areas of agreement at President Barack Obama's health care summit Thursday, starting with a shared belief that the system needs fixing. When they delved into the details, though, consensus evaporated in many cases.
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FDA Flags Heart Risk with HIV Drug Combination
The Food and Drug Administration is warning about potential heart risks of combining two anti-HIV drugs.
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New Obama Health Proposal to be Unveiled Monday
President Barack Obama is making a fresh attempt to rescue his health care overhaul by proposing a measure that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriate consumers.
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Pediatricians Urge Choking Warning Labels For Food
When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids' food could be so dangerous.
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Senate Report: Avandia Maker Knew Of Cardiac Risks
A Senate report said Saturday that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes medication, years before such evidence became public.
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Early, Aggressive Therapy Eyed In Blocking AIDS
Aggressive, early anti-viral therapy might provide a way to derail the spread of AIDS, a battle where a successful vaccine remains elusive.
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Scientists Report on Way to Derail Spread of AIDS
A successful AIDS vaccine remains elusive, but researchers say aggressive, early anti-viral therapy might provide a way to derail the spread of disease.
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Senate Report: Avandia Maker Knew of Cardiac Risks
A Senate report says GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes drug, years before such evidence became public.
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FDA Orders Name Change for Maalox Total Relief
The maker of Maalox is changing the name of its most potent medication because health regulators say consumers are mistaking it for a milder stomach reliever.
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SoCal Company Expands Meat Recall
A Southern California meat-packing firm has expanded its recall of ground beef and veal that might be contaminated with E. coli.
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DNA Suggests Even Ancient Man Had Baldness Issues
Scientists have pieced together most of the DNA of a man who lived in Greenland about 4,000 years ago.
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Changes Proposed In How Psychiatrists Diagnose
Don't say "mental retardation" - the new term is "intellectual disability." No more diagnoses of Asperger's syndrome - call it a mild version of autism instead. And while "behavioral addictions" will be new to doctors' dictionaries, "Internet addiction" didn't make the cut.
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NV Medicaid Cuts Could Ration Diapers
Adult diapers could be rationed and personal care assistants may need to buy their own disposable gloves to help cut $109 million from the state's Medicaid costs, state lawmakers were told Tuesday.
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FDA Aims to Rein in Radiation-Based Medical Scans
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will work with doctors and manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical scans, a problem that has been growing for decades.
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Autism Risks Detailed in Children of Older Mothers
A new study says a woman's chance of having a child with autism increases as she ages. It also says the risk may be less with older dads than previously thought.
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300 People Diagnosed With Mumps In Suburban NY
More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as the nation's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads.
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Fish Oil Shows Promise in Preventing Psychosis
Fish oil pills may be able to save some young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia, according to a reliminary but first-of-its-kind study.
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Success Seen With Experimental Abstinence Program
An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found.
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Girl's Odyssey Shows Challenge Of Fighting Obesity
Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she's a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.
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Sticky, Smelly Bag Balm: Problem-Salving for All
Winter's here, and that means big business for a small Vermont company whose animal ointment continues to find new uses far from the dairy barns.
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Doctor: Quake Victims Dying Without US Airlifts
A University of Miami doctor in Haiti says the U.S. government is endangering the lives of critically injured Haitians by halting medical evacuations to the United States.
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FDA Announces Recall of 2M Defective Needles
Federal health officials are announcing a recall of 2 million needles because of a risk they can push bits of silicone into patients' bodies.
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RI Company Recalling 1.2M Pounds of Salami
A Rhode Island meat company is recalling 1.2 million pounds of pepper-coated salami due to concerns about salmonella contamination.
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Heart Group Lists 7 Essentials for Heart Health
Here are the seven secrets to a long life: Stay away from cigarettes. Keep a slender physique. Get some exercise. Eat a healthy diet and keep your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar in check.
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What's in a Cigarette? FDA to Study Ingredients
The Food and Drug Administration is working to lift the smokescreen clouding the ingredients used in cigarettes and other tobacco products.
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Johnson & Johnson Expands Tylenol Recall
Johnson & Johnson expanded a recall of over-the-counter medications Friday, the second time it has done so in less than a month because of a moldy smell that has made users sick.
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Parents, Doctors Debate Tots Teetering in Heels
As images of 3½-year-old Suri Cruise out and about in blingy heels recently hit magazines and the Internet, reactions to the grown-up look for not-so-old kids have ranged from cries of inappropriate to defense of a little girl's right to be girlie.
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Don't Bank on Weekend to Make up for Sleep Loss
Sleeping in on Saturday after a few weeks of too little shuteye may feel refreshing, but it can give a false sense of security.
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Data: US Obesity Rate High, but Not Rising
Raise a glass of diet soda: The nation's obesity rate appears to have stalled. But the latest numbers still show that more than two-thirds of adults and almost a third of kids are overweight, with no sign of improvement.
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Male Chromosome Evolves Faster than Rest of Genome
Researchers say the chromosome that makes a man male is evolving faster than the rest of the genetic instruction book.
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Study: Youth Now Have More Mental Health Issues
A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era.
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Genentech Says FDA Approves Actemra Arthritis Drug
Biotechnology company Genentech Inc. says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its new drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
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Fight Against Fat Goes High-Tech with New Devices
The fight against fat is going high-tech. To get an inside look at eating and exercise habits, scientists are developing wearable wireless sensors to monitor overweight and obese people as they go about their daily lives.
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Renown Offering Swine Flu Vaccinations
In addition to the Tuesday’s seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccination event, Renown Health will offer four additional flu shot events after Christmas. Additional dates are also being considered.
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Health Bill Clears Final 60-Vote Hurdle in Senate
Exultant Senate Democrats pushed President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul past a final procedural hurdle Wednesday, setting up a Christmas Eve vote to pass the legislation extending coverage to 30 million Americans.
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32,000 Doses of Swine Flu Vaccine Recalled
The Southern Nevada Health District says it distributed about 32,000 doses of a recalled flu vaccine, but there are no health threats.
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Nasal Swine Flu Vaccine Recalled Over Potency
Drugmaker Medimmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time.
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Experts: NY Dog is 1st in Nation with Swine Flu
Experts say a dog in suburban New York is the nation's first confirmed to be carrying the same strain of swine flu that is infecting humans.
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