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    Transplant recipient completes Yosemite ascent (AP)

    This photo released by Kelly Perkins and  Serac Adventure Films, Kelly Perkins climbs Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, Calif on Saturday June 28, 2008. Heart transplant survivor Kelly Perkins has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago — a dangerous climb up a sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith. Perkins, 46, and her husband Craig, led by big-wall guide Scott Stowe, began the climb on Thursday and reached the top of the iconic, 8,842-foot-high dome on Saturday. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kelly Perkins and  Serac Adventure Films, Michael Brown)AP - A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago — a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith.


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    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:42:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Fast food chains ditch trans fats to meet NYC ban (AP)
    AP - Fast food restaurants have been changing their recipes to adapt to New York City's trans fat ban. Here are some of the menu overhauls at major chains: -- read full article
    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:40:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    NYC keeps the cannoli but drops the trans fats (AP)

    Chef Franco Amati stuffs cannoli shells at the Ferrara Bakery in New York's Little Italy  Friday, June 27, 2008 in New York.  New York's trans fat ban, the first to be adopted by an American city, is expanding next month to include almost all prepared food sold to the public — in restaurants, bakeries, cafeterias, salad bars, food carts. It initially covered only cooking oils for things like french fries and fried chicken. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:39:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Alzheimer's Drug Shows Early Promise (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- Long-anticipated results from a trial on an experimental Alzheimer's therapy look promising, at least in a certain group of patients. -- read full article
    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:46:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Alzheimer's Drug Shows Early Promise (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- Long-anticipated results from a trial on an experimental Alzheimer's therapy look promising, at least in a certain group of patients. -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:01:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Staying Social May Keep Dementia at Bay (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- The key to a healthy mind in old age may lie in an active social life, a new study suggests. -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:47:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Antibiotics Effective for Vaginal Injury After Childbirth (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- Antibiotics can make a big difference in the healing of vaginal tissues damaged during childbirth, a new study finds. -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:47:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: June 27, 2008 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:47:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Obesity may interfere with prostate cancer screen (Reuters)

    A woman walks along the boardwalk in New York September 4, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - The test commonly used to screen men for prostate cancer may be more likely to miss tumors in obese men, a new study suggests.


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    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:14:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak (AP)

    In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, farmer Robert Dodd displays some of his tomato crop at his farm  in Hanover County, Va. As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak — or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak — or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes.


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    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:05:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Staying Social May Keep Dementia at Bay (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- The key to a healthy mind in old age may lie in an active social life, a new study suggests. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:03:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: June 27, 2008 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:02:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    South African TB patients rampage (AP)
    AP - Authorities increased security Friday at a tuberculosis hospital where patients with drug-resistant forms of the disease went on a rampage to protest prison-like conditions. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:37:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Breast Cancer Vaccines Look Promising (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women with metastatic breast cancer who developed an immune response to an investigational vaccine lived twice as long as those who didn't have an immune response, new research shows. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    New Vaccine May Account for Less Severe Rotavirus Season (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A recent vaccine for rotavirus -- a leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea in infants and children -- may account for this year's less severe season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:47:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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