Archive for the Category ‘health’

Chilean twins in delicate condition post-surgery (AP)

Chilean twins in delicate condition post-surgery 
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AP - Conjoined twin girls who were separated in a 20-hour operation were in critical condition on Friday and one was in danger of dying, according to the director of the Chilean hospital where they are being treated.[Read more...]

Food firms ‘target web children’

Food firms ‘target web children’

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Hand, foot, mouth disease kills 156 in Vietnam (AP)

Hand, foot, mouth disease kills 156 in Vietnam 
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AP - Vietnam says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed 156 people, mostly children, and sickened more than 96,000 through late November.[Read more...]

Govt to adopt strict new limits on chimp research (AP)

Govt to adopt strict new limits on chimp research 
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AP - Days in the laboratory are numbered for chimpanzees, humans’ closest relative.[Read more...]

Gov’t to adopt strict new limits on chimp research (AP)

Gov’t to adopt strict new limits on chimp research 
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AP - The government on Thursday said it would adopt strict new limits on using chimpanzees in medical research, after a prestigious scientific group recommended that experiments with humans’ closest relative be done only as a last resort.[Read more...]

Group urges gov’t to strictly limit chimp research (AP)

Group urges gov’t to strictly limit chimp research 
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AP - Chimpanzees should hardly ever be used for medical research, a prestigious scientific group told the government Thursday — advice that means days in the laboratory may be numbered for humans’ closest relatives.[Read more...]

Palm-sized baby, 2nd smallest in US, is growing (AP)

Palm-sized baby, 2nd smallest in US, is growing 
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AP - At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor’s hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces — less than a can of soda — she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don’t survive, but doctors are preparing to [...]

Disability-Benefits System Faces Review

Disability-Benefits System Faces Review

The Social Security Administration has commissioned an independent review of the federal disability system amid concerns it awards benefits to those who don’t deserve them and denies benefits to those who do. A focus of the study is expected to be the work of roughly 1,500 administrative-law judges, who hear appeals by applicants but [...]

NHS ‘in need of major overhaul’

NHS ‘in need of major overhaul’

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Survey: 1 in 4 women attacked by intimate partner (AP)

Survey: 1 in 4 women attacked by intimate partner 
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AP - It’s a startling number: 1 in 4 women surveyed by the government say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends.[Read more...]

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