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LIVING COLUMNS
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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by groupSeveral doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
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Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
ATLANTA — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S.
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Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care voteWASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
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Correction: Plavix story
WASHINGTON — In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's Mylanta as part of the H-2 blocker drug family. Mylanta is an antacid.
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White House at odds with bishops over abortion
WASHINGTON — The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
HANOI, Vietnam — Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
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Why do some develop PTSD?
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed contrasting images.
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Frustrations mount over swine flu vaccine
ATLANTA – When the nation’s swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be “messy.” They were right.
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Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between PapsWASHINGTON — First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears.
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China to punish those concealing swine flu info
BEIJING — China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.
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