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Group backs mandatory flu shots for health workers
By LINDSEY TANNER 2010-09-08T21:06:24Z
CHICAGO (AP) -- Flu vaccination should be required for all doctors, nurses and other health workers, the nation's largest pediatricians' group says, calling it a long overdue step to protect patients....


CVS Caremark to give away up to $5M in flu shots
By 2010-09-08T13:51:59Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- CVS Caremark Corp. said Wednesday it will give away up to $5 million in seasonal flu vaccinations to people without health insurance....


AP Exclusive: Back to work after salmonella case
By MARY CLARE JALONICK 2010-09-08T19:18:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business....


J&J giving $200 million for health of women, kids
By LINDA A. JOHNSON 2010-09-08T22:53:09Z
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the health and lives of people in poor countries....


US smoking rate still stuck at 1 in 5 adults
By MIKE STOBBE 2010-09-07T20:35:03Z
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday....


FDA cites claims on 2 green tea beverages
By MATTHEW PERRONE 2010-09-07T18:43:29Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators have issued warnings to the makers of Canada Dry ginger ale and Lipton tea for making unsubstantiated nutritional claims about their green tea-flavored beverages....


FDA relents from midodrine withdrawal plan
By 2010-09-06T16:47:59Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators have backed off a plan to remove a Shire PLC low blood-pressure treatment from the market after warning in August that the drug has not been proven effective....


Court asked to keep stem cell money flowing
By 2010-09-08T21:14:35Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is asking a federal appeals court to lift an order blocking federal funding for some stem cell research, a day after being turned down by the judge who issued the order....


Japan confirms its first case of new superbug gene
By SHINO YUASA 2010-09-07T11:29:15Z
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs, detected in a man who had medical treatment in India, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday....


Picking right blood pressure medicine challenging
By LAURAN NEERGAARD 2010-09-07T07:04:37Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's hard to predict which pills will best lower which patient's high blood pressure, but researchers are hunting ways to better personalize therapy - perhaps even using a blood test....



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