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Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitisDENVER — 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.
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Advocates are back with real health care storiesCHICAGO — 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.
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Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
WASHINGTON — 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.
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Holder having surgery for cracked tooth
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth.
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CDC: US swine flu cases rise to nearly 34,000
ATLANTA — 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.
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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.
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Iraqi exercise craze pumps up home fitness business
BAGHDAD — Khalida Waleed wants to thank Oprah Winfrey for keeping her fit.
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CDC: Private health care coverage at 50-year-low
ATLANTA — The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports.
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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.
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Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer
ATLANTA — 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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