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  • Links Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis

    A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday.

  • Photos Video Advocates are back with real health care stories

    When carpenter Greg Douglas crashed his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000.

  • Photos Links Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people

    With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

  • Photos Holder having surgery for cracked tooth

    Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth.

  • Links CDC: US swine flu cases rise to nearly 34,000

    The number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths have risen 34 percent in the past week to 170, federal health officials reported Thursday.

  • Links Federal probe finds problems with chelation study

    A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.

  • Iraqi exercise craze pumps up home fitness business

    Khalida Waleed wants to thank Oprah Winfrey for keeping her fit.

  • Links CDC: Private health care coverage at 50-year-low

    The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports.

  • Links Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR

    You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes.

  • Links Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer

    In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.

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