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    Surgeon general meeting aims to lower preterm birth (AP)
    AP - One in eight babies — well over half a million a year — are born premature, a toll that's risen steadily for two decades with no sign of stopping. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:07:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    ED an Indicator of Men's Health (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Erectile dysfunction could be an indicator of testosterone deficiency and the metabolic syndrome, a set of factors that may indicate an increased risk of heart and vascular disease and type 2 diabetes, a new international study shows. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:46:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    'Standard' Glucose Test May Be Wrong One for Obese Children (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- The current standard screening test for prediabetes in children often fails to detect the condition, Canadian researchers contend. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:46:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    NY health official: Higher tax helps smokers quit (AP)
    AP - New York smokers have been sent outside in all kinds of weather, coughed at in disdain, and now they are burdened with the most expensive cigarette taxes in the nation. Now, to add cost to injury, the state is declaring its highest-in-the-nation cigarette tax a success. -- read full article
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:02:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Most cancer doctors avoid saying it's the end (AP)

    Cancer patient Eileen Mulligan, 68, rests in the backyard of her Washington home on Thursday, June 12, 2008. Only one-third of terminally ill cancer patients in a new, federally funded study said their doctors had discussed end-of-life care. Surprisingly, patients who had these talks were no more likely to become depressed than those who did not, the study found. They were less likely to spend their final days in hospitals, tethered to machines. They avoided costly, futile care, and their loved ones were more at peace after they died. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - One look at Eileen Mulligan lying soberly on the exam table and Dr. John Marshall knew the time for the Big Talk had arrived.


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    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:08:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Taiwan combats virus as death toll hits seven (AFP)

    A scientist examines the enterovirus under a microscope in Taipei. Taiwan has barred children aged under five from going to public play areas in a bid to contain the spread of a highly contagious virus that has killed seven so far this year.(AFP/File/Tao-Chuan Yeh)AFP - Taiwan has barred children aged under five from going to public play areas in a bid to contain the spread of a highly contagious virus that has killed seven so far this year, officials said Sunday.


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    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:03:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    ED an Indicator of Men's Health (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Erectile dysfunction could be an indicator of testosterone deficiency and the metabolic syndrome, a set of factors that may indicate an increased risk of heart and vascular disease and type 2 diabetes, a new international study shows. -- read full article
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:01:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    'Standard' Glucose Test May Be Wrong One for Obese Children (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- The current standard screening test for prediabetes in children often fails to detect the condition, Canadian researchers contend. -- read full article
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:01:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Women Get Lung Cancer From Smoking at Same Rates as Men (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are just as likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke, a large U.S. study found. -- read full article
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:46:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Online Scheduler Helps Track Kids' Shots (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SATURDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new online tool that helps parents and pediatricians adjust childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccinations are missed has been developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. -- read full article
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:46:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Viagra and military secrets at the Bagram bazaar (AFP)

    Afghan shopkeeper Ali Mohammad, holds up a can of Dr. Pepper soda in his shop in Bagram on June 9, 2008. The bazaar at Bagram, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Kabul and a few hundred metres from the country's biggest US military base, is stoked with risque Asian and American products that arrive via Pakistan.(AFP/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - "I don't really know what it is for," says a salesman with some embarrassment, despite the explicit illustrations on the bottle of "Long Love Spray".


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    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:23:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Why it takes so long to trace a bad tomato (AP)
    AP - Food and Drug Administration detectives had a hot lead, narrowing down on a grower who just might have supplied salmonella-tainted tomatoes. Then the patient changed her story: She'd eaten a round tomato, not a Roma one after all. -- read full article
    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:29:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    AMA president speaks of pancreatic cancer struggle (AP)

    Dr. Ron Davis, president of the American Medical Association, is seen in Chicago on Friday, June 13, 2008. As president of the nation's largest doctors' group, Davis has rallied the leading medical specialists to his side in a fight against a powerful enemy. Davis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February, eight months into his one-year term as AMA president. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)AP - As a doctor, Ron Davis knew what it meant when he got a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer earlier this year.


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    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:19:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Women Get Lung Cancer From Smoking at Same Rates as Men (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are just as likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke, a large U.S. study found. -- read full article
    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:00:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Online Scheduler Helps Track Kids' Shots (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SATURDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new online tool that helps parents and pediatricians adjust childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccinations are missed has been developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. -- read full article
    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:00:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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