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    Woman accused of illegally importing bear bile (AP)

    A rescued moon bear peers out of a cage at the Animals Asia Moon Bear Rescue Centre on the outskirts of Chengdu, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan. Thirteen moon bears were handed over to the animal charity group after years of abuse living at bile-harvesting farms in the province showing signs of malnourishment and disease and with one bear being euthanised shortly after arriving.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - Federal prosecutors in California have charged a South Korean national with illegally importing almost a kilogram of bear bile to sell as an aphrodisiac.


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    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:57:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Groups find common ground on health care overhaul (AP)
    AP - Groups often at odds over health care reform — consumers, insurers, doctors, employers — reached a broad agreement Friday that could serve as a starting point for lawmakers trying to overhaul the system. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:56:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Experimental vaccine used in Ebola exposure case (AP)

    In this Oct. 2007 photo provided by the Hamburg University hospital (UKE) on March 17, 2009 a quarantine unit at the hospital  is shown during a disaster control exercise. Hours after a 45-year-old scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used for injecting the Ebola virus into mice, leading members of the tight research community huddled over a trans-Atlantic telephone conference to plot a course of action. Within 24 hours of the March 12 accident, an experimental vaccine that had never before been tried on humans was on its way via international courier from a lab in Canada to Germany. The patient was treated in the pictured quarantine unit.  (AP Photo/UKE, Jochen Koppelmeyer)AP - It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice.


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    Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:08:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Senate takes on out-of-network insurance issue (AP)

    In this Jan. 21, 2009 file photo, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Rockefeller plans to demand answers Tuesday from the chief executives of UnitedHealthGroup Inc. and its subsidiary Ingenix, a claims database used by insurers nationwide to calculate 'out of network' rates.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - If you ever had to pay to see a doctor who wasn't in your insurance network, you might have wondered how your bill was calculated.


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    Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:44:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Fla. congresswoman fought cancer in secret (AP)

    In this Sept. 19, 2008 file photo, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. applauds as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks at a rally in Coral Gables, Fla. Still only 42 and considered a rising star in Democratic politics,  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has risen to leadership ranks in the House. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)AP - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz hated relying too much on her staff, but she needed them to keep up appearances during her undercover battle against cancer.


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    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:56:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Enzymes link brain injury to Alzheimer's disease (Reuters)
    Reuters - It's known that people who suffer a brain injury have a higher-than-normal risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, and now lab experiments suggest a reason why. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:52:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Multi-generational living hard on women's hearts (Reuters)
    Reuters - Women, but not men, who live in households with a spouse, children, and parents have double the risk for a coronary event, such as a heart attack or need for heart surgery, as women who live only with a spouse, according to research from Japan. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:55:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: March 27, 2009 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:02:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Treating ED in teens key for future well-being (Reuters)
    Reuters - It may seem unlikely that teenage boys could have erectile difficulties, but it can happen. Furthermore, the problem is not all in their heads but can have a physical cause, according to the first-ever study evaluating erectile dysfunction (ED) in teenage boys. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:46:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids (AP)
    AP - Chinese health officials said Friday that hand, foot and mouth disease has sickened 41,000 people across the country and killed 18 children so far this year. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:28:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Groups find common ground on health care overhaul (AP)
    AP - Eighteen groups representing consumers, business, insurers, doctors and hospitals say they have reached agreement on how they would like to see the nation's health care system overhauled. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:18:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    AIDS Drug Slows Spread of Deadly Childhood Brain Cancer (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- A drug approved to combat AIDS may also help slow the spread of a deadly type of brain tumor that tends to attack children. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:47:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Health Tip: Your Children Need Iron (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Young children are at great risk for iron deficiency because of rapid growth and increased iron requirements, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:47:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: March 26, 2009 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:47:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Learning disabled may engage in unsafe sex: survey (Reuters)
    Reuters - Adult men with mild learning disabilities may engage in unsafe sex even though they understand the associated risks, survey findings suggest. -- read full article
    Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:37:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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