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    AP poll: Most students stressed, some depressed (AP)
    AP - Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 22:29:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Japan, San Marino top life expectancy league (AP)

    A pedestrian walks past a Sony showroom in Tokyo, December 2008. Japan's Sony Corp., facing a second year of losses, said Thursday that it would cut its number of suppliers by more than half to reduce procurement cost by 5.3 billion dollars a year.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AP - The World Health Organization says women in Japan have the highest life expectancy in the world with 86 years. WHO says men in San Marino have the longest life expectancy for their sex with 81 years.


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    Thu, 21 May 2009 19:31:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    UK's attempts to stop swine flu called flawed (AP)

    File - People wear masks as they stand outside the Houses of Parliament in London, in this Monday, May 11, 2009 file photo, when British health officials confirmed seven new cases of swine flu, bringing the then national total to 55.  British health authorities have confirmed three new cases of swine flu, bringing the country's total to 112. The Health Protection Agency said Thursday May 21 2009 that the new cases are all children living in the West Midlands. The children had all recently returned from an affected area in the U.S. The authority did not say where in the U.S. the children had visited.  The virus in Britain has generally been mild and no one has died from swine flu in the country.  Britain has relaxed its advice against travel to Mexico. But the Foreign Office Web site warns that parts of Mexico and the U.S. are still affected by the virus.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)AP - Flu experts are looking very closely at Britain — and some have decided that the U.K.'s swine flu-fighting tactics are seriously off the mark and may be hiding a much larger outbreak.


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    Thu, 21 May 2009 20:20:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Study: Diabetes drug lowers amputation risk (AP)
    AP - Doctors who gave diabetics a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 percent, a new analysis of research says. Researchers in Australia, Finland and New Zealand studied almost 10,000 patients aged 50 to 75 with type 2 diabetes, the kind linked to obesity. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 May 2009 00:15:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Mexico City ends swine flu alert, no cases in week (AP)

    Mexico City's Mayor Marcelo Ebrard gestures during a press conference with the foreign press in Mexico City, Thursday, May 21, 2009. Ebrard said the lalert for the swine flu is now at it's lowest level and invited tourists and investors to come back to Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Mexico City lowered its swine flu alert level from yellow to green on Thursday, and the mayor said "we can relax" now that there have been no new infections for a week.


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    Fri, 22 May 2009 02:49:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    High Blood Fats Tied to Diabetic Nerve Loss (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Diabetes patients with elevated levels of triglyceride fats are at increased risk of developing a serious complication called neuropathy -- the loss or damage of nerves that results in numbness, tingling and pain in the hands, arms, legs and feet, researchers say. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 18:03:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Pediatric Ear Infection Vaccine Shows Promise (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccines delivered via droplets rubbed into the skin appear to protect against ear infections, say researchers who tested the method on chinchillas. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 18:03:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Research Reveals How Down Syndrome Shields Against Cancer (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- A pair of genes may explain why people with Down syndrome are largely spared from many types of cancer, Boston researchers report. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 03:50:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Risk to Baby Rises With Repeat C-Sections (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Babies delivered by elective, repeat cesarean section delivery are nearly twice as likely to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) than those born vaginally after the mother has previously had a c-section, a new study finds. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 18:03:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: May 21, 2009 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 18:03:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    WHO: young child deaths down a third since 1990 (AP)
    AP - The World Health Organization says almost a third fewer young children are dying than in 1990. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 11:39:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    US swine flu deaths hit double-digits (AP)

    Japanese students wear facial masks as a precaution against swine flu while touring the Senso-ji temple area, one of tourists destinations in downtown Tokyo on Thursday May 21, 2009, a day after a 16-year-old girl in Tokyo was confirmed to have swine flu — the first case in the Japanese capital. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - Swine flu forced Christina Huitron to make a choice no mother should ever have to make.


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    Thu, 21 May 2009 16:25:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Scientists investigate Mexican town's flu mystery (AP)

    In this photo taken April 27, 2009, Victor Calderon, General Director of Granjas Carroll de Mexico, stands next to pigs at one of the company's farms on the outskirts of Xicaltepec in Mexico's Veracruz state. Scientists are returning to La Gloria, a pig-farming village in the Veracruz mountains where Mexico's earliest confirmed case of swine flu was identified. They hope to learn where the epidemic began by taking fresh blood samples from villagers and pigs, and looking for antibodies that could suggest exposure to previous swine flu infections. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - No one has identified ground zero in the swine flu epidemic. Just where or when the new strain of influenza first jumped from a pig and began infecting people is a scientific mystery — one that a group of flu detectives is determined to solve.


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    Thu, 21 May 2009 12:49:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    AP poll: Many students stressed, some depressed (AP)
    AP - Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless. -- read full article
    Thu, 21 May 2009 16:33:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Japan, San Marino top life expectancy league (AP)

    A pedestrian walks past a Sony showroom in Tokyo, December 2008. Japan's Sony Corp., facing a second year of losses, said Thursday that it would cut its number of suppliers by more than half to reduce procurement cost by 5.3 billion dollars a year.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AP - The World Health Organization says women in Japan have the highest life expectancy in the world with 86 years.


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    Thu, 21 May 2009 16:54:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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