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Study: Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer death risk
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy, believing the dreaded exam may help keep them from dying of colon cancer. For the first time, a major study offers clear evidence that it does.... 02/23/2012 12:58:08am

US drafts plan to fight feared Alzheimer's disease
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration declared Alzheimer's "one of the most feared health conditions" on Wednesday as it issued a draft of a new national strategy to fight the ominous rise in this mind-destroying disease.... 02/22/2012 04:52:51pm

Fitness program for mentally ill expands in NH
KEENE, N.H. (AP) -- Back when he was a self-described friendless recluse, Craig Carey spent hours sitting in a chair doing nothing or driving around in his car, alone. Then a fitness program for people with serious mental illness turned his life around.... 02/23/2012 07:16:43am

Common prenatal tests become campaign issue
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race.... 02/22/2012 04:56:32pm

Panel: All adults should get whooping cough shots
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough.... 02/22/2012 12:11:49pm

Doctors: Myanmar desperate for HIV and TB drugs
BANGKOK (AP) -- Some 85,000 HIV-infected people in Myanmar are not getting treatment due to a lack of funding, despite renewed international engagement with the government amid a wave of political reform, a medical aid group said Wednesday.... 02/22/2012 07:30:35am

Big outbreak of child virus in Vietnam may worsen
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year.... 02/21/2012 05:20:49am

FDA panel backs previously rejected obesity pill
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- A previously rejected weight loss pill won an overwhelming endorsement from public health advisers Wednesday, raising hopes that the drug from Vivus Inc. could become the first new anti-obesity medication to reach the U.S. market in more than a decade.... 02/22/2012 06:33:53pm

FDA: New suppliers to ease 2 cancer drug shortages
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Federal regulators said Tuesday that they've approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages - at least for the time being - that have left patients and parents frightened about missing life-saving treatments.... 02/22/2012 12:00:12am

Big outbreak of child virus in Vietnam may worsen
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year.... 02/21/2012 04:47:49am

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