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Jack Kemp has cancer: Report
The SwampJack Kemp, right, at a National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity hearing at Access Chicago on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. He was accompanied by fellow former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros. (Chicago Tribune photo by Tom Van Dyke.)......Tags: National Government, Cancer, Bob Dole, Baseball, George H.W. Bush
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Sanjay Gupta: House (and Senate) calls
The Swampby Noam N. Levey and Matea Gold President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his healthcare agenda. Best known......Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, CNN, CBS Corp., Government
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Ill. has 4 cases in national salmonella outbreak
Four Illinoisans have been hit with salmonella poisoning in an outbreak that has sickened almost 400 people nationwide. Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said Thursday the cases range from a 2-year-old to a 73-year-old....Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dining and Drinking, Health Organizations, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Michigan, 41 other states in salmonella outbreak
AP Medical WriterA nationwide salmonella outbreak that has struck 42 states has put about one in five of its victims in the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Nearly 400 people have become ill in the outbreak that might have...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia, Minnesota, Illnesses, Healthcare Policies
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FDA supports Vytorin use after finishing review of controversial comparison study
AP Business WriterTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients should not stop taking Vytorin or other cholesterol-lowering drugs, based on its just-completed review of a controversial study that hammered Vytorin sales. A statement...Tags: Government, Death and Dying, Sales, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Joint Ventures
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Death risk double in latest study of anti-psychotic drugs for elderly Alzheimer's patients
AP Medical WriterLONDON (AP) — Anti-psychotic drugs commonly used to treat Alzheimer's disease may double a patient's chance of dying within a few years, suggests a new study that adds to concerns already known about such medications. "For the vast majority of...Tags: Mental Illness, Medical Specialization, Alzheimer's Disease, Therapies, Pharmaceuticals
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Doctors use honey to save man's leg
Special to NewsdayA Little Neck man may owe his right leg to an unlikely ancient remedy: honey. Treatment that was until only recently thought by many to be "barbaric," according to one nurse at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, saved Franklin Lloyd from...Tags: Long Island, Medical Specialization, Little Neck, Health Organizations, Hospitals and Clinics
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Officials: CDC probe into salmonella outbreak includes Ill.; nearly 400 cases nationwide
AP Medical WriterATLANTA (AP) — A nationwide salmonella outbreak that has struck 42 states has put about one in five of its victims in the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Nearly 400 people have become ill in the outbreak...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia, Minnesota, Healthcare Policies, Illnesses
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Sex offender accused of exposing teen to AIDS
erik.german@newsday.comA convicted sex offender with AIDS was charged with exposing a 16-year-old boy to the virus by having sexual contact with him at least twice last year, according to an indictment unsealed in a Riverhead courtroom Thursday. Robert Musmacker, 36, of...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Crimes, Prosecution, Sexual Assault, AIDS
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Charles Morgan, civil rights-era lawyer from Alabama, dies in Florida; Bond, Ali among clients
Associated Press WriterMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles Morgan Jr., a civil rights-era lawyer from Alabama who represented Julian Bond and Muhammad Ali and argued for the "one man, one vote" principle that redrew political maps, died Thursday. He was 78. Family members...Tags: Parliament, Georgia, Employment Opportunities, Justice and Rights, Julian Bond
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Ex-wife: Man shot by police had heart transplant
A man fatally shot by a police officer was unbalanced because of medication he was taking after a heart transplant operation, his ex-wife said. Sharon K. Thompson told The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne that her former husband, Stephen T. Thompson, wasn'...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Crimes, Firearms, Police, Medicine
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7 Zimbabwe opposition members charged in bomb plot
The Associated PressSeven members of Zimbabwe's main opposition party were the first of dozens of jailed dissidents to be formally charged Wednesday, and they pleaded not guilty in a bombing plot. The seven are among rights activists and opposition party members detained in...Tags: Parliament, Court Preliminary, Parties and Movements, Prosecution, Government
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