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FDA APPROVES RETURN OF DRUG FOR MORNING SICKNESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designate...
HEART REPAIR BREAKTHROUGHS REPLACE SURGEON'S KNIFE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into b...
C. EVERETT KOOP, 'ROCK STAR' SURGEON GENERAL, DIES
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor- even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died...
US LAUNCHES NEW BATCH OF GRAPHIC ANTI-SMOKING ADS
NEW YORK (AP) -- Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last e...
GENE FLAWS COMMON IN BLACKS WITH BREAST CANCER
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gene flaws that raise the risk of breast cancer are surprisingly common in black women with the disease, according to the first comprehensive testing in this racial...
MEASLES SURGES IN UK YEARS AFTER FLAWED RESEARCH
LONDON (AP) -- More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to a...
HOSPITALS SEE SURGE OF SUPERBUG-FIGHTING PRODUCTS
NEW YORK (AP) -- They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when th...
HUGE DRUG COST DISPARITIES SEEN IN HEALTH OVERHAUL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn. Where you live cou...
